Avi Shupak MD

Avi Shupak, received his cum laude MD degree from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology (1978). Completed his Otolaryngology residency at Carmel Lady Davis Medical Center (1989) and a fellowship in Pediatric Otolaryngology at the University of Pittsburgh (1993). He established the human performance and motion sickness laboratory at the Israel Naval Medical Institute and was the director of the institute during 1993-2003. In 2003 he founded the Otoneurology Unit of Carmel and Lin Medical Centers, affiliated with Bruce Rappaport faculty of medicine, the Technion, and chaired it until 2020. Currently, he is a full professor at the Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, The University of Haifa, and a former associate professor at the Bruce Rappaport faculty of medicine, the Technion. He conducts basic and clinical research focusing on middle and inner ear physiology, vestibular function tests, motion sickness, and diving-related otological aspects, publishing over 140 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He is the mentor of over 20 graduate and Ph.D. students. He is currently the Secretary of the Israel Otoneurology Society and its former chairman (2007-2018) and former scientific secretary of the Israel Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Society (2009-2013). He is on the editorial board and serves as a reviewer in numerous international journals. He is a member of the Barany Society, Vertigo Academy International (member of the international executive committee), The French-Israeli Association of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, and the American-Israeli Association of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.