Shlomo Weintraub is well educated, graduating with honors from the Sackler School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University. He then completed a residency in orthopedics and traumatology at Ikhilov Medical Center in Tel Aviv. In the same clinic he worked first as a doctor in the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, and since 1994 he has been the head of the Department of Orthopedics at the Children’s Hospital. Shlomo Weintraub has advanced his professional qualifications in leading clinics in the UK and USA. Today, Prof. Shlomo Weintraub heads the Department of Pediatric Orthopedics at Tel Aviv University Faculty of Medicine.
In addition to an active clinical practice, Prof. Weintraub is seriously engaged in research activities. He has been closely involved in research on congenital orthopaedic disorders at the University of London, in research on cell biology of bone and tissue mineralization at the National Research Institute in Maryland in the USA. And also at the Fogarty International Center in the United States. He is the author of more than 160 scientific publications and more than 300 professional presentations at international medical congresses and forums.
Shlomo Weintraub is a unique orthopedic surgeon with extensive clinical and academic experience. Member of numerous professional associations in Israel and abroad. Founder and permanent chairman of the Israeli Society for Pediatric Orthopedics. Visiting professor at 13 pediatric orthopedic centers around the world.
Prof. Weintraub has been honored with many prestigious awards and prizes for his outstanding contribution to the development of world medicine. Among the most important are the awards from the Israeli Ministry of Health, the medal from the European Society of Pediatric Orthopaedics, the awards from the American Society of Bone Diseases and the National Institute of Health of the USA.
Founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Children’s Orthopaedic.