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Thomas Gesztes

Born 1926 Czechoslovakia

Holocaust survivor

1949-Aliya to Israel

Medical studies in Jerusalem

residency in anesthesia at Hadassah Medical Center

first anesthesiologist of Beer Sheva

1954-created the department of anesthesia at Soroka Medical Center

1974- opened the ICU at Soroka

the first report on echothiopathe effect on duration of suxamethonium activity

one of the founders of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Ben Gurion University , Beer Sheva

1986-the first chairman of the Division of Anesthesiology, Soroka Medical Center

1992 retired
Died...

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