Tanir Allweis

Biographical Details

Prof. Tanir Allweis, MD, is a breast surgeon, Chair of the Department of Breast Surgery and Director of the Multidisciplinary Breast Health Center at Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem, Israel. She also serves as Professor of Surgery at the Hebrew University Medical School and is the current Chair of the Society of Breast Surgery within the Israel Surgical Association.

A graduate of the Hebrew University School of Medicine, Prof. Allweis completed her general surgery residency at Hadassah University Hospital, Mt. Scopus, followed by a surgical oncology fellowship at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland and a breast surgery fellowship at the Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC. For the last 25 years she has practiced as a breast surgeon in Israel in academic and private hospital settings, has held public positions in the Israel Medical Association, and academic posts at the Faculty of Medicine in the Hebrew University.

Research Interests

Prof. Allweis has had a longstanding interest in personalized risk-adapted breast cancer screening, which led to her current choice of a sabbatical with Prof. Regina Barzilay’s lab at MIT. Her aim is to explore the clinical integration and implementation of Mirai, a deep learning model developed by Prof. Barzilay and her team, trained to determine breast cancer risk based on mammography images. Although it has been widely validated, Mirai has yet to be implemented on a large scale in a population-based screening program. Integrating such a model into Israel’s national breast cancer screening program could help to focus screening efforts on high-risk women and improve resource allocation and health equity. Toward that end, she is collaborating with HMO leaders and research institutes in Israel and hopes to transform the landscape of breast cancer screening in Israel.

Select Publications

Allweis TM, Hermann N, Berenstein-Molho R, Guindy M. (2021) Personalized Screening for Breast Cancer: Rationale, Present Practices, and Future Directions. Ann Surg Oncol. 28(8):4306-4317

Hermann N, Mor P, Kaidar-Person O, Bernstein-Molho R, Brodsky M, Madorsky Feldman D, Flugelman AA, Aboody Nevo H, Meshoulam Avital D, Sklair-Levy M, Friedman E, Allweis TM (2023). Variations in Practice and Geographic Disparities Between Dedicated Multidisciplinary Clinics for BRCA1/BRCA2 Mutation Carriers in Israel. Isr Med Assoc J. 25(1):18-22.

Friedman-Eldar O, Zippel D, Guy-Chen H, Eitan Gur S, Ben-Baruch N, Sharon E, Allweis TM (2020). Advanced Breast Cancer at Diagnosis: Over One Third Adherent to Screening Recommendations. Womens Health Rep (New Rochelle). 31;1(1):301-307

Hadar T, Koretz M, Nawass M. Allweis TM (2021): Innovative standards in in surgery of the breast after neoadjuvant systemic therapy. Breast Care (Basel).;16(6):590-597.