Research

•In vitro and in-silico computational flow simulation in Congenital Heart Diseases.

•Developing and optimizing a piglet model of Cyanotic Heart Disease, Mentored by Dr. Henry Spotnitz, Funded by NIH grant, Columbia University, NY, USA

• Biventricular pacing and LV pacing using the retrograde cardioplegia cannulae, Mentored by Dr. Henry Spotnitz, Columbia University, NY, USA

• Investigation of Growth Factors and Thromboxane in angiogenesis by ELISA and other immunological assays. Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

• Application of Cone and Plate(let)™ Analyzer for Evaluation of Platelet Function Cardiac Surgery. Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.

• Assistant investigator in biomedical and clinical research in cardiothoracic surgery, sponsored by pharmaceutical companies.

Patents

• Device and method for performing endoluminal anastomosis. Patent Number 8262681

• An automatic device for mammary artery harvesting. Patent application submitted, provisional patent: US60/958,297 (filing date 12/07/2007).

• An automatic device for sternal closure. (patent submission in progress).

• Minimal invasive ablation device for arrhythmia treatment in one incision approach (patent submission in progress).

• A novel model of biventricular long- term assist device/ total artificial heart (submission in progress).