Jacob Sosna, MD

Professor Jacob Sosna earned his MD from the Sackler Faculty of Medicine of Tel Aviv University with Distinction in 1989. He completed his residency in Radiology at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel in 2001. He traveled to Boston to the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, for a Research and Clinical Fellowships in Abdominal Imaging and Advanced Cross-Sectional Imaging. Professor Sosna returned to Hadassah as a Senior Radiologist, Head of CT, and Director of the 3D Imaging Laboratory in 2003. He has served as Radiology Research Coordinator since 2004, and he established and heads the Experimental CT and acts as a co-director of the Applied Radiology Laboratory. In 2011 Professor Sosna became Chairman of Radiology at Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center and in 2016 the Director of the Imaging and Nuclear Medicine Division. He serves as Vice Dean of the Hebrew University – Hadassah Faculty of Medicine.

Professor Sosna has published over 180 articles in peer-reviewed journals and is an active speaker in international conferences on Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging. He was selected by the Board of Directors of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) as the Eyler editorial fellow for 2006, and was an Associate Editor for Radiology. In 2017 Prof. Sosna was awarded an honorary fellowship of the ACR and in 2018 an honorary membership of the RSNA as well as the French Society of Radiology. He served as President of the Israeli Radiological Association between 2011-2020. Prof. Sosna is currently the treasurer of the Israeli Academy of Medical Sciences. Prof. Sosna’s research focuses on advancing clinical applications in cutting edge technology with special interest in AI in collaboration with experts in the US and Europe.