S. Nahum Goldberg#
| Membership Number: | 7620 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ISRAEL |
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| ORCID: | 0000-0003-2940-9822 |
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Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 - present Professor of Radiology; Hebrew University–Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem
- 2009 - present Vice-Chair for Research, Department of Radiology, Hebrew University–Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem
- 2009 - present Section Chief, Image-Guided Therapy & Interventional Oncology
- 2024 - present Visiting Professor, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany
- 2007 - present Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA (Visiting extension from 2010)
- 2006 - present Director, Applied Radiology Laboratory, Hebrew University–Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem
- 2000 - 2020 Director, Minimally Invasive Tumor Therapies Laboratory, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, USA
- 1999 - 2009 Director, CT Intervention and Tumor Ablation Program, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Image-guided oncology standards and guidelines
- Tumor microenvironment and inflammation
- Ablation-induced tumorigenesis and immunogenicity
- Thermal ablation technologies (RFA, MWA)
- Physiology and biophysics of ablation
- Combination ablation–systemic therapies
- Interventional oncology
- Molecular and single-cell analysis of locoregional therapies
- Image-guided tumor ablation
- Irreversible electroporation (IRE)
Honours and Awards
- 2025 Lifetime Honorary Chairman, World Ablative Therapies Association
- 2024 Distinguished Clinical Study Award, Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR)
- 2023 Wallace Distinguished Oration, Society of Interventional Oncology (SIO), Washington, DC
- 2022 Fellow, Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (FCIRSE)
- 2022 Keynote speech. Personalizing Interventional Oncology: Vision for the Next Decade. RSNA, Chicago, IL
- 2020 Elected Member, Israel National Academy of Medical Sciences
- 2019 Josef Lissner Honorary Lecture, European Society of Radiology (ESR), Vienna
- 2018 Roche Annual Oration, Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE)
- 2012 Centennial Award, Hadassah Medical Organization
- 2010 Robert E. Lenkinski Award for Excellence in Academic Mentoring, BIDMC / Harvard Medical School
- 2008 Fulbright Professorial Scholarship
- 2007 Fellow, Society of Interventional Radiology (FSIR)
- 1998 Caesar Gianturco Research Fellowship, Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)
