AvitalHarariMD

Summary

• Dr. Avital Harari is a Professor of Surgery at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin, graduating with Highest Honors and as a member of the Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society.
  
  Thereafter, she received her medical degree with distinction at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, graduating in the top 10% of her medical school class. She trained in general surgery at Columbia University in New York City prior to completing the premier US Endocrine Surgery fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. She recently obtained an executive MBA as valedictorian of her class, with highest honors.
  
  She is certified by the American Board of Surgery and is a member of multiple societies including the American College of Surgeons, The Endocrine Society, The American Thyroid Association, as well as the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons.
  
  Dr. Harari has received many academic honors at all levels of her education and has a growing bibliography. Dr. Harari's clinical and research interests include the multidisciplinary management of benign and malignant tumors of the adrenal, thyroid, and parathyroid glands. She is also interested in familial endocrine disorders (such as multiple endocrine neoplasia).
  
  She offers a wide range of unique services including retroperitoneal or transabdominal laparoscopic adrenalectomy, mini-incision thyroid and parathyroid surgery, central and modified neck dissection, and laparoscopic removal of pancreatic tumors. Her interests in addition to endocrine surgery include global health, surgical education and surgical outcomes. Dr. Avital Harari has been named a 2013, 2014, and 2015 Super Doctor Rising Star, in the top 2.5% of physicians in the country! She was thereafter named a SuperDoctor in 2016 to 2023 as well as a Castle Connelly Top Doctor.
  
  Foreign languages spoken: Hebrew, Spanish