Place of Work: Urology Department, Shaare Sedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Email: ikafka@szmc.org.il

Achievement

• Sports Nutrition; Kafka I., Sarue N.,Alvear P, Moderated Poster Presentation, Medical Days week at the Anahuac University School of Medicine, 2000, Mexico
• Effects of Progesterone in the respiratory Smooth muscle of the pregnant Doe Rabbit; Kafka I., Sarue N., Alvear P, Moderated Poster Presentation, Medical Days week at the Anahuac University School of Medicine, 2000, Mexico
• Stone volume a predictor of spontaneous ureteral stone passage; Sternberg I, Kafka I, Vardi I, Leibovich I, Moderated Poster Presentation, 27th World Congress of Endourology & SWL, 2009, Germany
• The role of nanomaterial inorganic fullerene like particle coating of urological draining devices in the prevention of biofilm formation and encrustation; Kafka I, Reshef T,Leibovich I, Moderated Poster Presentation, 32nd Congress of the Israeli urological Association, 2011, Israel
• Novel technology for prevention of Biofilm formation on Biomaterials dwelling in urine; Kafka I, Neeman A, Yossepowich O, Moderated Poster Presentation, 32nd Congress of the Israeli urological Association, 2011, Israel
• Attenuation of Encrustation of Urological Medical Devices by Self Assembled Inorganic Fullerene like Nanoparticles; Racheli Ron, David Zbaida, Ilan Z. Kafka, Rita Rosentsveig, Ilan Leibovitch, Reshef Tenne; Nanoscale. 2014 May 21;6 (10):5251-9
• Comparison of stone composition and urinary risk factors between elderly and younger cohort with nephrolithiasis; Ilan Kafka, Yaniv Shilo, Robert M. Turner II, John C. Lynam, Stephen V. Jackman, Michael C. Ost, Timothy D. Averch; Moderated Poster Presentation, 31st World Congress of Endourology& SWL 2014 , Taipei, Taiwan
• Editorial Comment for Sfoungaristos et al. Kafka IZ, Averch TD; J Endourol. 2015 Oct;29(10):1136
• Stents and Catheters-What’s New?; Tennyson Lauren, Kafka Ilan, Averch D. Timothy; AUA Update Series, Lesson 26 Vol 34, 2015
• Hypercalciuria: evaluation of gender difference and metabolic abnormalities. John Lynam, Omar Ayyash, Ahmadullah Daud, Ilan Kafka, Stephen Jackman, Timothy Averch, Pittsburgh, PA; Moderated Poster Presentation, AUA Congress, 2015, New Orleans, USA
• Two 24-hour urine collections for the metabolic assessment of patients with nephrolithiasis; Does timing between studies matter? I Kafka, O Ayyash, J Lynam, S Jackman,T Averch; Moderated Poster Presentation, 32nd World Congress of Endourology & SWL 2015 , London, UK
• Quality of care of uric acid stone formers: single center review; I Kafka, O Ayyash, J Lynam, D Lapoint, M Semins, S Jackman, T Averch; Moderated Poster Presentation, 32nd World Congress of Endourology &SWL 2015, London, UK
• “History of Interventional Urology”. Interventional Urology Kafka Ilan, Timothy Averch; Rastinehad, A.R., Siegel, D.N., Pinto, P.A., Wood, B.J. Ed. 2016, p.3-11, Springer.
• The Use of an Occlusion Balloon Device and PCNL Outcomes: Single Center Experience; ; I Kafka, , H Taan, S Jackman, T Averch; Moderated Poster Session, AUA Congress, 2016, San Diego California, USA
• Changing Lithogenic Trends in Patients with Neurological Derived Muskuloskeletal Deficiencies; I Kafka, S Sparauer, H Taan, S JAckman, T Averch, M Semins; Moderated Poster Session, 33rd World Congress of Endourology & SWL 2016, Cape Town, South Africa
• The Use of an Occlusion Balloon Device and PCNL Outcomes: Single Center Experience; ; I Kafka, , H Taan, S Jackman, T Averch; Moderated Poster Session, 33rd World Congress of Endourology & SWL 2016, Cape Town, South Africa
• Hugar LA, Kafka I, Fuller TW, Taan H, Averch TD, Semins MJ. Trends in renal calculus composition and 24-hour urine analyses in patients with neurologically derived musculoskeletal deficiencies. Int Braz J Urol. 2019 Jan 4;45.
• Kafka IZ, Kocherov S, Jaber J, Chertin B. Pediatric robotic-assisted laparoscopic pyeloplasty (RALP): does weight matter? Moderated Poster Session, 35th World Congress of Endourology & SWL 2018, Paris, France
• Kafka IZ, Kocherov S, Jaber J, Chertin B., Miki Haifler, Amos Neeman, Amnon Zisman Robotic-Assisted Laparoscopic Dismembered Extravesical Cross-Trigonal Ureteral Reimplantation (RALDEC-UR) Unmoderated Poster Session, 35th World Congress of Endourology & SWL 2018, Paris, France
• Kafka IZ, Kocherov S, Jaber J, Chertin B. Pediatric robotic-assisted laparoscopic pyeloplasty (RALP): does weight matter? Pediatr Surg Int. 2019 Mar;35(3):391-396.
• Ilan Z. Kafka , Timothy D. Averch " Intraoperative Assessment of Tumor Resection Margins" Chapter 94 p.1097-1100; Smith's Textbook of Endourology, 2 Volume Set, 4th Edition, Springer
• Neheman A, Kord E, Koucherov S, Kafka I, Gaber J, Noh PH, Zisman A, Chertin B. A novel surgical technique for obstructed megaureter: Robotic Assisted Laparoscopic Dismembered Extravesical Cross-trigonal Ureteral Reimplantation (RADECUR) - Short-term assessment. J Endourol. 2019 Nov 23. doi: 10.1089/end.2019.0192.

Social title

• Israeli Medical Association
• Israeli Urological Association
• American Urological Association
• European Association of Urology
• Endourological Society