Dr. Leonid STERNICK is Israel’s leading specialist in cardiac surgery. He is the head of the atrial fibrillation surgery department at Assuta, the largest medical center in the world. Expert in a wide range of operative procedures.
Leonid Sternik has been diagnosing and treating various rhythm disorders, angina pectoris, coronary heart disease (CHD), atherosclerosis, heart defects, myocardial infarction and a number of other heart diseases for more than 20 years. As a talented cardiac surgeon, Dr. Sternik brilliantly performs surgeries to correct cardiac pathologies: aortocoronary bypass surgery, coronary artery stenting, radiofrequency ablation, heart valve prosthetics for heart defects, and more. In his daily clinical practice, he favors minimally invasive techniques.
Dr. Leonid Sternik is not only an excellent, highly professional surgeon, but also a research innovator, working tirelessly on developments and research in the field of cardiac surgery. He is the author of a unique technique of surgical treatment of hypertrophic cardiomyopathies, allowing to do without artificial circulation apparatus.
Leonid Sternik has been leading the European program of training and advanced training of cardiac surgeons in the surgical treatment of ischemic heart disease complicated by heart rhythm disturbances since 2004.
He has written more than 40 articles and monographs on the topics of cardiology and cardiac surgery, and is an honorary member of various professional cardiac surgical societies.
Fluent in 3 languages: Russian, English and Hebrew. This certainly makes Dr. Sternik most sought after by patients from all over the world.