Department of Medical Biophysics

and Nuclear Medicine

Tel: 972 2 677 6705/6714

Fax: 972 2 643 7940

E-Mail: yodphat@hadassah.org.il

Education

1966-1971 - M.D. Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, ISRAEL

1972 - Internship, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, ISRAEL.

1973-1977  Residency, Department of Internal Medicine, Dept. of Medicine A, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, ISRAEL. (Prof. M. Eliakim)

1978-1982  Residency, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, ISRAEL. (Prof. E. Cerasi)

1979-1981  Research Fellowship, Department of Physiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (Prof. G.W.G. Sharp)

1983-1986  Residency, Department of Medical Biophysics and Nuclear Medicine, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, ISRAEL. (Prof. H. Atlan)

1986-- Staff Physician, Department of Medical Biophysics and Nuclear Medicine, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, ISRAEL

1975 - M.D. Israel permanent license.

1979 - Board of Medicine, Israel Medical Association.

1983 - Board of Endocrinology, Israel Medical Association

1987 - Board of Nuclear Medicine, Israel Medical Association.

1972 - ECFMG - Standard Certificate.

1978 - VQE - Certificate

1981 - Board of registration and Discipline in Medicine, Commonwealth of Massachusetts (FLEX).

Employment

1986 - Senior Physician, Department of Nuclear Medicine

1997 - Associate Professor, clinical, of Nuclear Medicine

Clinical Specialty

·         Thyroid Diseases, benign and malignant

·         General Nuclear Medicine

·         Imaging of Endocrine diseases, including neuroendocrine disorders

Areas of Research Interest

·         Management of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer

·         Imaging of Neuroendocrine Tumors

·         Brain SPECT imaging in thyroid disorders, depression and drug abusers

·         Professional Organizations

·         Israel Medical Association.

·         Israel Society of Nuclear Medicine.

·         Israel Endocrine Society.

·         Society of Nuclear Medicine.

·         EORTC Thyroid Study Group.

·         European Association of Nuclear Medicine.

Recent Publications

Y. Krausz, B. Uziely, H. Karger, R. Isacson, R. Catane, B. Glaser. Recurrence - Associated Mortality in patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma. J Surg Oncol 52:164-168, 1993 (Citated in Clinical Digest Series)

Y. Krausz, A. Rivkind, K. Abu-Dalu and M.M. Krausz. Preoperative diagnosis of acute combined inflammation and bleeding from Meckel's diverticulum pertechnetate scintigraphy. Dig Surg 10:106-108, 1993.

Y. Krausz, N. Shibley, R.B.J. de Jong, S. Yaffe, B. Glaser. Gallbladder visualization with 111 In-labeled Octreotide. Clin Nucl Med 19:133-135, 1994.

Y. Krausz, Ch. Maayan, J. Faber, R. Marciano, P. Mogle and S. Wynchank. Scintigraphic evaluation of esophageal transit and gastric emptying in familial dysautonomia. Eur J Radiol 18:52-56, 1994.

Y. Krausz, S. Ish-Shalom, R.B.J. De Jong, N. Shibley, M. Lapidot, Y. Maaravi and B. Glaser. Somatostatin-Receptor Imaging of Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma. Clin Nucl Med 19:416-421, 1994.

Y. Krausz, S. Ish-Shalom, M. Lapidot and B. Glaser. Somatostatin-receptor imaging in endocrine tumors. Harefuah 127:36-39, 1994. (In Hebrew).

M. Weiss, A. Yellin, M. Husza'r, Z. Eizenstein, J. Bar-Ziv and Y. Krausz. Localization of Adrenocorticotropic Hormone-Secreting Bronchial Carcinoid by Somatostatin-Receptor Scintigraphy. Ann Intern Med 121:198-199, 1994.

D. Schechter, M. Bocher, Y. Berlatzky, H. Anner, Z. Argov, G. Beer, Y. Krausz, M.S. Gotsman and R. Chisin. Transient neurological events during dipyridamole stress test: An arterial steal phenomenon? J Nucl Med 34:1802-1804, 1994.

Y. Krausz, T. Horne, S. Wynchank and A. Halevy. Lateral neck imaging for spatial localization of parathyroid tissue. Nucl Med & Biol 22:391-394, 1995.

R. Nagler, Y. Marmary, Y. Krausz, R. Chisin, A. Markitziu, A. Nagler. Salivary gland dysfunction in human acute and chronic graft versus host disease (GVHD). Bone marrow transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplant 17:219-224, 1996.

Y. Krausz, O. Bonne, R. Marciano, S. Yaffe, B. Lerer, R. Chisin. Brain SPECT imaging of neuropsychiatric disorders. Eur J Radiol 21:183-187, 1996.

O. Bonne, Y. Krausz, B. Shapira, M. Bocher, H. Karger, M. Gorfein, R. Chisin and B. Lerer. Increased cerebral blood flow in depressed patients responding to electroconvulsive therapy. J Nucl Med 37:1075-1080, 1996.

Y. Krausz, MR Pfeffer, B. Glaser, J. Lafair. Somatostatin-receptor scintigraphy of subcutaneous and thyroid metastases from bronchial carcinoid. J Nucl Med 37:1537-1539, 1996.

O. Bonne, Y. Krausz, M. Gorfine, H. Karger, Y. Gelfin, R. Chisin, B. Lerer. Cerebral hypoperfusion in medication-resistant, depressed patients assessed by Tc-99m HMPAO SPECT. J Affective Disord 41:163-171, 1996.

Y. Krausz, M. Levy, E. Anteby, J. Bar-Ziv, M. Bocher, R. Chisin. Liver hemangioma: A perioperative Tc-99m-RBC SPECT correlation. Clin Nucl Med 22:35-37, 1997. (Abstracted in the Year Book of Nuclear Medicine, 1998).

O. Bonne, Y. Krausz. Pathopysiological significance of cerebral perfusion abnormalities in major depression-trait or state marker? Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 7:225-233, 1997.

Y. Krausz, M. Wilk, F. Saliman and R. Chisin. Role of high-resolution pinhole tomography in the Evaluation of Thyroid Abnormalities. Thyroid 7:847-852, 1997.

Y. Krausz, J. Bar-Ziv, R.B.J. de Jong, S. Ish-Shalom, R. Chisin, N. Shibley, B. Glaser. Somatostatin-receptor Scintigraphy in the management of gastroenteropancreatic tumors. Amer J Gastroenterol 93:66-70, 1998.

Y. Krausz, O. Bonne, M. Gorfine, H. Karger, B. Lerer, R. Chisin. Age-related changes in brain perfusion of normal subjects detected by Tc99m-HMPAO SPECT. Neuroradiology 40:428-434, 1998.

D. Schechter, Y. Krausz, S. Moshe, R. Rubinstein, R. Chisin. Radioiodine Hot Hand Sign. Clin Nuc Med 23:378-379, 1998.

Y. Krausz, A. Rosler, H. Guttmann, S. Ish-Shalom, N. Shibley, R. Chisin and B. Glaser. Somatostatin receptor scintigraphy for early detection of regional and distant metastases of medullary carcinoma of the thyroid. Clin Nucl Med 24:256-260, 1999.

O. Bonne, Y. Krausz, Y. Aharon, Y. Gelfin, R. Chisin, B. Lerer. Clinical doses of fluoxetine and cerebral blood flow in healthy volunteers. Psychopharmacology 143:24-28, 1999.

M. Bocher, A. Balan, Y. Krausz, Y. Shrem, A Lonn, M. Wilk, R. Chisin. Gamma camera mounted anatomical X-ray tomography: technology, system characteristics and first images. Eur J Nucl Med 27:619-627, 2000.

R. Hardoff, AP. Steinmatz, Y. Krausz, Z. Bar-Sever, M. Liani, MR. Kramer. The prognostic value of perfusion lung scintigraphy in patients who underwent single-lung transplantation for emphysema and pulmonary fibrosis. J Nucl Med 41:1771-1776, 2000.

Y. Krausz, PD. Lebensart, M. Klein, J. Weininger, A. Blachar, R. Chisin, E. Shiloni. Pre-operative localization of parathyroid adenoma in patients with concomitant thyroid nodular disease. World J Surg 24:1573-1578, 2000.

Y. Krausz, DM. Ikeda, H. Jadvar, D. Langleben, R. Birdwell, HW. Strauss. Non-visualization of sentinel lymph node in patients with breast cancer. Nucl Med Commun 22:25-32, 2001.

S. Shilo, Y. Krausz, C. Reinus, U. Beller. The use of 75Se-selenocholesterol SPECT in the localization of steroid secreting tumor. IMAJ 3:455-456, 2001.

Y. Krausz. Nuclear Endocrinology as a Monitoring Tool. Semin Nucl Med 31:235-250, 2001.

Y. Krausz, B. Uziely, R. Nesher, R. Chisin, B. Glaser. Recombinant TSH in Differentiated Thyroid Cancer. IMAJ 3:843-849, 2001.

Y. Krausz, E. Shiloni, M. Bocher, S. Agrarnovicz, B. Manos, R. Chisin. Diagnostic Dilemmas in Parathyroid Scintigraphy. Clin Nucl Med 26:997-1001, 2001.

D. Aharoni, Y. Krausz, D. Elstein, I. Hadas-Halpern, A. Zimran. 99mTc-sestamibi bone marrow scintigraphy in Gaucher disease. Clin Nucl Med 27:503-509, 2002.

O. Bonne, Y Louzoun, I Aharon, Y. Krausz, H. Karger, B. Lerer, M. Bocher, N. Freedman R. Chisin. Cerebral blood flow in depressed patients: A methodological comparison of statistical parametric mapping and region of interest analyses. Psychiatry Res: Neuroimaging 122:49-57, 2003.

Z. Keidar, O. Israel, Y. Krausz. SPECT/CT in tumor imaging. Technical aspects and clinical applications. Semin Nucl Med 33:205-218, 2003.

Y. Krausz, Z. Keidar, I. Kogan, E. Even-Sapir, R. Bar-Shalom, A. Engel, R. Rubinstein, J. Sachs, M. Bocher, S. Agranovicz, R. Chisin, O. Israel. SPECT/CT hybrid imaging with In111-Pentetreotide in assessment of Neuroendocrine Tumors. Clin Endocrinol 59:565-573, 2003.

O. Bonne, A. Gilboa, Y. Louzon, O. Kempf-Sherf, M. Katz, Y. Fishman, Z. Ben-Nahum, Y. Krausz, M. Bocher, H. Lester, R. Chisin, B. Lerer. Cerebral Blood Flow in Chronic Symptomatic Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. Psychiatry Res.: Neuroimaging 124:141-152, 2003.

Y. Krausz, N. Freedman, H. Lester, JP Newman, G. Barkai, M. Bocher, R. Chisin, O. Bonne. Regional Cerebral Blood Flow in Patients with Mild Hypothyroidism. J Nucl Med 45:1712-1715, 2004.

E. Guedj, D. Taieb, C. De Laforte, M. Ceccaldi, O. Mundler, Y. Krausz, N. Freedman, O. Bonne. Similitude of brain perfusion pattern in hypothyroidism and early Alzheimer's disease: physiopathologic considerations. J Nucl Med 46:1247-1248, 2005.

NM. Freedman, E. Mishani, Y. Krausz, J. Weininger, H. Lester, E. Blaugrund, D. Ehrlich, R. Chisin. In-Vivo Measurement of Brain Monoamine Oxidase B Occupancy by Rasagiline, using 11C-L-Deprenyl and PET. J Nucl Med 46:1618-1624, 2005.

R. Hardoff, D Shitrit, A Tamir, AP Steinmetz , Y Krausz, MR Kramer. Short- and long-term outcome of lung volume reduction surgery. The predictive value of the preoperative clinical status and lung scintigraphy.  Respir Med (In press)

Y. Krausz, L. Bettman, L Guralnik, G Yosilevsky, Z Keidar, R. Bar-Shalom, E. Even-Sapir, R. Chisin, O. Israel. Tc99m-MIBI SPECT/CT in Primary Hyperparathyroidism. World J Surg 30:76-83, 2006.

Y. Krausz, N. Freedman, H. Lester, G. Barkai, T. Levin, M. Bocher, R. Chisin, B. Lerer, O. Bonne. Brain SPECT study of common ground between hypothyroidism and depression. The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology (In press)

Chapters

Y. Krausz. Normal SPECT/CT scans: Artifacts and pitfalls in Iodine, Iodine-MIBG, and Indium Octreotide. In: Clinical Molecular Anatomic Imaging. PET, PET/CT, and SPECT/CT. (Ed. Gustav K. von Schulthess). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 441-446, 2003.

O. Israel and Y. Krausz. SPECT/CT in Tumor imaging. In: Clinical Molecular Anatomic Imaging. PET, PET/CT, and SPECT/CT. (Ed. Gustav K. von Schulthess). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 447-462, 2003.

Y. Krausz. Tc99m-Sestamibi SPECT/CT for Parathyroid Imaging. In:

R. Bar-Shalom, Z. Keidar, Y. Krausz. Image Fusion: The Role of SPECT/CT and PET/CT. In: