Dr Yaniv Hamzani

Dr. Hamsani is a senior physician in the department of otolaryngology at Rabin Medical Center and director of the throat treatment and vocal cord surgery service.
He graduated with honors in medical studies from the Technion in Haifa. He specializes in diseases of the nervous system and head and neck surgery at Belinson Hospital and Schneider Children’s Hospital in Petah Tikva.U completed a residency in vocal cord and laryngeal surgery at Hospital Europeen Georges Pompidou (HEGP) in Paris. He has been working at Rabin Medical Center since 2012, and has extensive experience in performing clinical procedures and endoscopic throat surgery (without neck incisions) using laser and robotic surgery.

In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Hamzani is an academic researcher at the Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University. He has published numerous articles in the leading international professional press in the field of Autoimmune Autonomic Ganglionopathy and has lectured at medical conferences in Israel and around the world. His research on the evaluation of the voice after laser throat surgery won first place at the prestigious American Laryngological Society conference in 2013.

As part of his practice in treating voice and swallowing disorders, Dr. Hamzani combines advanced diagnostic methods with exhaustive conservative treatment options before deciding on surgery. The therapeutic approach is personal, and communication specialists with expertise and experience in various fields are available when needed.

Main specialties:

• Diagnosis of voice disorders and hoarseness: performing advanced tests to evaluate vocal cord findings, including stroboscopy and voice evaluation
• Microsurgical operations to remove benign lesions from the vocal cords: warts, polyps, cysts, scars
• Laser endoscopic surgery: to treat precancerous processes and vocal cord tumors
• Treatment of voice problems among singers and actors, teachers and kindergarten teachers, rabbis and cantors, managers and marketing employees
• Voice rehabilitation: vocal cord filler injection or prosthesis implantation in cases of vocal cord paralysis, lack of vocal cord closure, scarring of the vocal cords, hoarseness in old age
• Neurological disorders of the voice: injection of Botox into the vocal cords to treat voice tremor
• Swallowing problems: evaluation of swallowing (FEES test), conservative and surgical treatment
• Cannula weaning: surgery to correct airflow problems in the throat and trachea
• Head and neck surgery: operations on the thyroid, adrenal glands and salivary glands (parotid glands)

Membership in professional organizations:

• Association of Laryngologists and Head and Neck Surgeons in Israel.
• Israeli Society of Head and Neck Surgery and Oncology
• European Laryngological Society (ELS)
• French Israeli Association of Laryngology and Head and Neck Surgery (AFIDOC)