Dr. Shmuel Garfi

Dr. Shmuel (Shmulik) Garfi is an ophthalmologist, director of the Assuta Optic Haifa medical center, and a senior surgeon at Rambam Health Care Campus, specializing in cornea, cataract and laser vision correction.

Dr. Garfi completed his medical studies and his ophthalmology residency with distinction at Poriya Medical Center (together with HaEmek Medical Center), affiliated with Bar-Ilan University. After completing his residency, he went on to a prestigious fellowship in Italy under Prof. Massimo Busin, one of the world’s leading corneal specialists.

During his fellowship and since returning to Israel, Dr. Garfi has gained extensive experience across a wide range of advanced anterior segment procedures, including advanced corneal transplants, treatment of corneal diseases, complex cataract surgery, laser vision correction and implantation of advanced lenses.

Today, Dr. Garfi serves as a specialist in anterior segment, corneal diseases and cataract in the Department of Ophthalmology at Rambam Health Care Campus. He also heads the keratoconus clinic and the corneal cross-linking service, and is a senior consultant in his field for northern Israel.

Dr. Garfi has served as chair of the national Cornea Section of the Israeli Ophthalmological Society, and he teaches residents and medical students at the Technion Faculty of Medicine.

Alongside his clinical work, Dr. Garfi is active in research, publishes in the professional literature, and participates and lectures at international conferences.

Dr. Garfi is a member of several leading professional societies, including the International Society of Cornea Specialists, the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS), the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS), the Israel Medical Association, the Israeli Ophthalmological Society and the Israeli Society of Refractive Surgeons.