Head, Pediatric Hemato-Oncology

Department of Pediatrics

Hadassah University Hospital

Ein-Karem, Jerusalem

Tel:   972-2-6778720

FAX: 972-2-6429560

E. Mail : msnwei@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il

Date of Birth: May 13, 1958

Address: (H) 2b Hagai St., Jerusalem, Israel  96262

Tel: 972-2-6515231

Education

Bachelor of Medical Sciences ( B.M.S.), Hadassah-Hebrew University, Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel , 1982

M.D. : Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel , 1987

Post Graduate Training: Residency in Pediatrics: Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel, 1987-1991.

Board certification in Pediatrics (Israel) December 10, 1992.

Sub-Specialty Training: Fellowship in Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Pediatric Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. 1991-1996

Board certification in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology (Israel), January, 1998.

Current Position:  Director, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Hadassah University Hospital Jerusalem, Israel.

Previous positions:

1998-2001 - Director, inpatient services, Department of  Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel

Medical License:

Israeli Medical License  #19028

State of Maryland License #D46982

Publications

I. Articles

1) Weintraub M, Steinberg A, Drukker A. Cerebral edema in Congenital Nephrotic Syndrome. Pediatr Nephrol 1992:6,354-355.

2) Wilschanski M, Abrahmov A, Weintraub M, Ferber B, Glaser J, Kaplan M.  Neonatal pericarditis as a presenting manifestation of chronic granulomatous disease. Acta Pediatr 1992:81,849-850.

3) Bhatia K, Fan S, Spangler G, Weintraub M, O’Connor PM, Judde JG, Magrath IT.A mutant p21 cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor isolated from a Burkitt’s lymphoma. Cancer Res 1995:55,1431-1435.

4) Weintraub M, Khaled HM, Abdel-Rahman Z, Bahnasi A, Eissa S, Venzon DJ,  Magrath IT, Bhatia KG.  p53 mutations in Egyptian Bladder cancer. Int J Oncol  1995:7, 1269-1274.

5)  Weintraub M, Adde MA, Venzon DJ, Shad AT, Horak ID, Neely JE, Seibel NE, Gootenberg J, Arndt C, Nieder ML, Magrath IT.  Severe atypical neuropathy associated with administration of both hematopoietic colony stimulating factors and vincristine.  J Clin Oncol 1996:14,935-940.

6) Weintraub M, Lin A, Franklin J, Tucker M, Magrath IT, Bhatia KG.  Absence of germline p53 mutations in familial lymphoma. Oncogene 1996:12,687-691.

7) Weintraub M, Chandra R, Magrath IT, Bhatia KG, Ladisch S. p53 expression in Langerhans cell histiocytosis. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol 1998 :20,12-17.

8) Weintraub M, Kalebic T, Helman LJ, Bhatia KG. Disruption of the MyoD/p21 pathway in rhabdomyosarcoma.  Sarcoma  1998:1, 135-141.

9) Weintraub M, Kaplinsky C, Amariglio N, Rosner E, Brok-Simoni F, Rechavi G. Spontaneous regression of congenital leukemia with an 9;16 translocation. British Journal of Haematology 2000:111, 641-3.

10) Modan-Moses D, Weintraub M, Meyerovitch J, Segal-Lieberman G, Bielorai B, Shimon I.  Hypopituitarism in Langerhans cell histiocytosis. J Endocrinol Invest 2000 24:612-7.

11) Bielorai B, Toren A, Wolach B, Mandel M, Golan H, Neumann Y, Kaplinsky C, Weintraub M, Keller N, Amariglio N, Paswell J, Rechavi G. Successful treatment of invasive aspergillosis in chronic granulomatous disease by granulocyte transfusions followed by peripheral blood stem cell transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplantation 2000 ;26, 1025-8.   

12) Yehuda-Gafni O, Cividalli G, Abrahmov A, Weintraub M, Ben Neriah S, Cohen R, Abeliovich D. Fluorescence in situ hybridization analysis of the cryptic t(12;21)(p13;q22) in childhood B-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Cancer Genet Cytogenet 2002:132, 61-64.

II. Abstracts

Weintraub M, Adde M, Shad A, Horak I, Seibel N, Neely J, Magrath I.  Profound peripheral neuropathy associated with the administration of colony stimulating factors.  Blood 1994;84(10) 128a

Weintraub M, Fan S, Spangler G, O’Connor PO, Judde JG, Magrath I, Bhatia K.  Waf-1, a downstream mediator of p53 is rarely mutated in Burkitt’s lymphoma. Blood  1994;84(10) 615a

Weintraub M, Chandra R, Magrath IT, Ladisch S. Abnormal expression of p53 in Langerhans cell histiocytosis. Presented at the annual meeting of the Histiocyte Society, Washington D.C., 1995.

Sangiorgi L, Weintraub M, Bhatia KG, Picci P, Helman LJ. A new germline mutation in a Li-Fraumeni family. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, Washington, DC, 1996.