Thoracic Surgery
MD, Director of Thoracic Surgery Unit, Edith Wolfson Medical Center, Israel
Dr. Firas Abu Akar is a Thoracic Surgeon from Jerusalem, He is currently the Head of the Thoracic Surgery Unit at Edith Wolfson Hospital - Holon - Tel Aviv - Israel.
After obtaining a specialization in thoracic surgery in Jerusalem, Dr. Abu Akar spent about a year in Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital (one of the largest hospitals specializing in thoracic surgery in the world) to learn minimally invasive techniques from the most skilled surgeons in the world like Diego Gonzalez Rivas, Yuming Zhu and Jiang Lie.
After returning to his country, he worked in several hospitals and adapted the Uniportal VATS surgery to be applied in pediatric surgery.
Dr. Abu Akar was also interested in chest wall deformities correction Surgeries via minimally invasive techniques (Nuss and Abramson procedures), where he was trained by the surgeon Mustafa Yuksel and performs dozens of these surgeries annually.
Dr. Abu Akar has dozens of publications in the field of minimally invasive thoracic surgery.
Selected publications from PubMed
Emerging technologies in thoracic surgery: artificial intelligence, robotic-assisted surgery, and telesurgery.
Yacoub Z, Shweiki M, Yacoub R, Khan N, Yacoub H, Al Mohtasib ME, Salhab A, Kanani F, Abu Akar F
Front Surg. 2026;13:1890003 doi: 10.3389/fsurg.2026.1890003.
Intercostal Nerve Block in Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery: A Propensity-Score Matched Single-Center Study of Early Postoperative Pain and Opioid Use.
Kanani F, Zoabi N, Khabarov E, Berdan Z, Argaman M, Meller M, Nugzar R, Fruchter O, Al Mohtasib ME, Shimonov M, Salhab A, Kamar M, Abu Akar F
J Clin Med. 2026 Jun 24;15(13) doi: 10.3390/jcm15134910.
Comparative analysis of safety and outcomes of Non-intubated versus intubated uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery using propensity score matching: a single-center experience expanding indications beyond traditional restrictions.
Kanani F, Grebneva I, González Rivas D, Aotman K, Salhab A, Nugzar R, Shimonov M, Abu Akar F
Front Surg. 2026;13:1798894 doi: 10.3389/fsurg.2026.1798894.
Disparities in Thoracic Oncology Patients.
Awlad Mohammad MW, Abu Hashhash K, Yacoub R, Abu Akar F
Cancers (Basel). 2026 Feb 28;18(5) doi: 10.3390/cancers18050793.
Segmentectomy versus lobectomy for stage I non-small cell lung cancer: a real-world propensity score-matched analysis.
Kanani F, Rozenblum R, Mahajna N, Aotman K, Salhab A, Shimonov M, Nugzar R, Abu Akar F
J Thorac Dis. 2025 Dec 31;17(12):11118-11130 doi: 10.21037/jtd-2025-1715.
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