Assistant Professor, Surgery, University of California Los Angeles David Geffen SOM
General Surgery
Dr. Avital Harari, MD
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Avital Harari, MD is an expert in the field of General Surgery. He attended Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He has 9 awards "Superdoctor Southern California Rising Star (2013,2014,2015)", "America's Top Surgeons", "Fellow", "Glasgow-Rubin Memorial Achievements Citations award (presented to women graduating in the top ten percent of their medical school class)", "Samson F. Wennerman Prize in Surgery", "Park J. White, M.D. Prize (excellence in the realm of medical ethics)", "Member", "Cultural Ambassador" and "Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society". Doctor Avital Harari, MD is a published doctor as well. He has 24 publications published. The latest was: Increased rates of advanced thyroid cancer in California. Avital Harari accepts Medicare payments and is listed with Medicare.gov.
Publications
- Increased rates of advanced thyroid Cancer in California.
- Medical Students' Perceptions of Surgeons: Implications for Teaching and Recruitment.
- Dynamic Parathyroid Computed Tomography (4DCT) Facilitates Reoperative Parathyroidectomy and Enables Cure of Missed Hyperplasia.
- Predictors of MultiGland Disease in Primary Hyperparathyroidism: A Scoring System with 4D-CT Imaging and Biochemical Markers.
- Surgery is associated with improved survival for adrenocortical Cancer, even in metastatic disease.
- Reproductive outcomes and non-oncologic complications after radioactive iodine ablation for well-differentiated thyroid Cancer.
- Utility of serum thyroglobulin measurements after prophylactic thyroidectomy in patients with hereditary medullary thyroid Cancer.
- Risk Based Ultrasound Screening for Thyroid Cancer in Obese Patients is Cost-effective.
- Thyroglobulin antibody levels do not predict disease status in papillary thyroid Cancer.
- Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Presentation and Outcomes of Well-Differentiated Thyroid Cancer.
- Endocrine surgery as a model for value-based health care delivery.
- Incidence and Prevalence of Primary Hyperparathyroidism in a Racially Mixed Population.
- Successful Localization of Recurrent Thyroid Cancer in Reoperative Neck Surgery Using Ultrasound-Guided Methylene Blue Dye Injection.
- Three-phase Parathyroid 4-dimensional computed tomography initial experience: inexperienced readers have high accuracy and high interobserver agreement.
- Medical student entry into general surgery increases with early exposure to surgery and to surgeons.
- Computed tomography can guide focused exploration in select patients with primary Hyperparathyroidism and negative sestamibi scanning.
- Negative preoperative localization leads to greater resource use in the era of minimally invasive Parathyroidectomy.
- Adrenal incidentaloma: does an adequate workup rule out surprises?
- Malignant pheochromocytoma: a review.
- Primary hyperparathyroidism patients with positive preoperative sestamibi scan and negative ultrasound are more likely to have posteriorly located upper Gland adenomas...
- Parathyroid carcinoma: a 43-year outcome and survival analysis.
- Population-level predictors of persistent Hyperparathyroidism.
- Parathyroid Carcinoma: Update and Guidelines for Management.
Schools
Washington Center School of Medicine
Procedures Preformed
- Adrenalectomy
- Hepatectomy
- Lymph Node Biopsy or Excision
- Open Thymectomy
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Conditions Treated
- Adrenal Gland Cancer
- Atelectasis
- Hemorrhoids
- HyperParathyroidism
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Doctors Specialties
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
- Aetna HMO
- Choice Plus POS II
- Blue Card PPO
- CaliforniaCare HMO
- Advantage Preferred DirectAccess Plus PPO
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of California PPO
- Pathway X Tiered Direct Access
- Select Plus HMO
- Select PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- LocalPlus
- Open Access Plus
- Commercial Insurance Company
- First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
- Blue & Gold HMO
- Covered California - Bronze PPO
- Employer Group HMO
- Health Net PPO
- Individual and Family PPO
- Medicare Advantage PFFS
- Medicare MCR
- Kaiser PHCS Network PPO
- MultiPlan PPO
- PHCS Network PPO
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate HMO
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
- PacifiCare HMO
- United Healthcare
Awards
- Superdoctor Southern California Rising Star (2013,2014,2015)
- America's Top Surgeons
- Fellow
- Glasgow-Rubin Memorial Achievements Citations award (presented to women graduating in the top ten percent of their medical school class)
- Samson F. Wennerman Prize in Surgery
- Park J. White, M.D. Prize (excellence in the realm of medical ethics)
- Member
- Cultural Ambassador
- Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society
Education
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UCSF -
New York Presbyterian Hospital - Columbia Campus -
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis -
UCLA
Hospital
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Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital -
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1831349935 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | HARARI |
| First Name Of The Provider | AVITAL |
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