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Dr. Sergey Lyass' Curriculum Vitae
 

 
CURRENT STATUS
 
  7/06 to present Private Practice in General,
Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgery
8631 West 3rd. St., Suite 900E, Los Angeles, CA 90048-5901
   
HOSPITAL PRIVILEGES
 
  2006 to present Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Olympia Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Century City Doctors Hospital, Los Angeles, CA
Brotman Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
   
HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS
 
  1998-2000 Attending Staff Surgeon, Dept. of Surgery
Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
     
LICENSURE
 
  Medical License, State of California No. A80181 – active
Medical License, State of Iowa. No. 34602 – inactive
Medical License, State of Israel. No. 22948 – active
     
BOARD EXAMINATIONS
 
  Feb. 2006 Certifying Examination of American Board of Surgery Board Certified
  Aug. 2005 Qualifying Examination of American Board of Surgery
  Oct. 1998 Certified as a General Surgeon in Israel
  1998 Step 2 (oral) of Israeli Surgical Board Examination
  1997 Step 1 (written) of Israeli Surgical Board Examination
   
   
TRAINING AND PRIOR PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
     
EDUCATION    
     
 

Fellowship

  7/05 – 6/06 Clinical Fellow in Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery.
Director of program: Edward H. Phillips
Dept. of Surgery, Cedars Sinai Medical Center,
Los Angeles, CA
     
  2000-2002 Research Fellow in Minimally Invasive Surgery.
Director of program: Edward H. Phillips
Dept. of Surgery, Cedars Sinai Medical Center,
Los Angeles, CA
     
 

Residency

  2004-2005 Chief Surgical Resident. Dept. of Surgery
Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
     
  2002-2004 Senior Surgical Resident, Dept. of Surgery
Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
     
  1996-1998 Senior and Chief Resident, Dept. of Surgery
Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
     
  1995-1996 Senior Resident, Dept. of Surgery
Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY
     
  1991-1995 Junior Resident, Dept of Surgery
Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
     
 

Internship

  1986-1990 Institute of Cardio-Vascular Surgery named Bakulev,
Moscow, Russia.
     
 

Medical School

  1979 – 1985 Moscow II State Medical School, Russia
Graduated Medical Faculty, MD degree
     
 

Undergraduate

  1975 – 1979 High School. Moscow, Russia
     
 
ECFMG EXAMINATIONS
     
  1994 - 1995 Step 1, Step 2, Step 3 of USMLE and English test.
  1995 Permanent ECFMG certificate # 0-505-462-2
   
   
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
  • Candidate member of the American College of Surgeons
  • Member of the Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES)
  • Member of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons (SLS)
  • Member of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery (ASBS)
  • Israel Surgical Society
  • The Israel Society for Laparo-Endoscopic Surgery
  • European Association for Endoscopic Surgery
 
ACADEMIC AFFILIATION
 
  1997 – 2000 Instructor in Surgery, Medical School of Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
     
  2006-2007 Research Scientist, Cedarsd-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
     
 

Scientific Grants:

  1997 - 1998 Ethicon Endosurgery Inc.
United States Surgical Inc.
Research grant for the study of Helium vs CO2 pneumoperitoneum.
     
  1999 Ethicon Endosurgery Inc.
Research grant for the study of pneumoperitoneum hemodynamic effects in the animal model of cardiac failure.
     
  1999 Israel Cancer Association
Role of the BRCA 1,2 mutations in local
recurrence of breast cancer.
     
  2002 US Department of Defense
The effect of CO2 pneumoperitoneum in the
animal model of intestinal ischemia
     
  2002 US Department of Defense
Non-Invasive Monitoring of Intra-cranial Pressure
     
ACADEMIC AWARDS
  • Annual Award of the Los Angeles Surgical Society for the research project “Elevated intra-abdominal pressure does not effect small bowel perfusion and mesenteric blood flow”, December, 2002.
  • Award for the best research paper by resident at the Southern California Chapter of American College of Surgeons, Santa-Barbara, CA, 2004
  • Poster of Distinction Award for the poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society of American Society of Gastro-Intestinal Surgeons, Denver, CO, 2004.
     
     
     
     
 


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