Biography

My name is Zvi Perry, and I am a general and bariatric surgeon (ASMBS). I graduated from Goldman medical school at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. I had done my residency at Soroka University Medical Center in General Surgery. I finished my fellowship in Bariatrics at McGill University Hospital (2017-8). I did another fellowship in Surgical Simulation at the Steinberg-Bernstein Centre for Minimally Invasive Surgery & Innovation, McGill University (2018-9). In addition, I did a research fellowship at Tuft New-England Medical Center in the Surgical research lab, under the supervision of Prof. Shikora in 2008-9. I also have a PhD. in Surgical Epidemiology and an M.A. in Educational Psychology, from Ben-Gurion University, Israel, and am a senior lecturer at Ben-Gurion University, where I have been teaching Surgery and Epidemiology for the last Decade. I am also active in promoting General surgery education and Bariatrics at the state level in Israel and am a member of the Israeli surgical society and the Israeli Endoscopic Society. My academic activities at the national level include improving health quality measurements in Israel, as well as being a part of the Clalit simulation center for the surgical professions. My research interests include bariatric surgery, medical and surgical simulations, and improving health quality measurements at the state level. These days I am taking part in the Israeli bariatric registry committee on how to utilize that registry to better understand healthcare utilization in the Israeli field of bariatrics. Also, I have research students who are evaluating the impact of bariatrics on kidney functioning, and the impact of bariatric procedures on the incidence of cancer.