Dr. Yitzhack Schwartz
Yitzhack
Schwartz, M.D.
is
Senior Structural Heart Disease Specialist at Rambam
Healthcare Campus, Meyer Children’s Hospital;
TechCast Expert Panel member at TechCast; and
WW Director of Intellectual Property at Biosense Webster.
Yitzhack was the youngest MD to graduate in Israel. He is a
non-conformist thinker, prolific inventor, and original scientist.
He specializes in structural heart disease. His main interests are
accurate, non-invasive, sophisticated diagnosis and image-guided
therapeutics. He is the cofounder of the unique outreach mobile
“pediatric-cardiology on-wheels” clinic serving the whole periphery of
Northern Israel.
He coauthored
Electromechanical mapping for determination of myocardial
contractility
and viability,
Electromechanical Characterization of Chronic Myocardial Infarction
in
the Canine Coronary Occlusion Model,
Coronary Angiography in Patients undergoing Transcatheter Closure of
Interatrial Shunt,
The Advantage of the DuctOcclud Coil for the Occlusion of
Aorto-Pulmonary Shunts,
Autologous Stem Cells for Functional Myocardial Repair, and
Transvenous Coil Embolization of a Patent Ductus Venosus in a
2-Month-Old Child.
His patents include Method and device
for transseptal facilitation based on injury patterns, Guided procedures
for treating atrial fibrillation, Anchoring
mechanism for implantable telemetric medical sensor, Method for
anchoring a medical device between tissue, Simulation of
invasive procedures, Externally applied
RF for pulmonary vein isolation, Invasive medical
device with position sensing and display, Position sensing
system with integral location pad and position display, Ultrasound
pulmonary vein isolation, and Prediction and
assessment of ablation of cardiac tissue.
Yitzhack earned his M.D. at
Technion-Machon Technologi Le’ Israel in 1984.
He studied magnetic resonance imaging at Mayo Medical School in 1985
and cardiovascular MR imaging at University of California, San Francisco
– School of Medicine from 1993 to 1994. He graduated
Singularity University in 2009.
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Singularity University profile.
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