Professor of Medicine

Clinical Nutrition

Department of Medicine

Hadassah University Hospital

Ein-Karem, Jerusalem

Dr Elliot Berry graduated from the University of Cambridge, UK with distinction in medicine. He trained in Internal Medicine at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London and, after making Aliyah in 1973, at the Hadassah Hospital, Jerusalem.

Following army service he won a Fogarty Research fellowship at the Rockefeller University, New York working on fat cell metabolism. His principal research interests are on the bio-psycho-social problems of weight regulation from obesity to anorexia nervosa.

Laboratory work uses animal models to study the effects of weight loss - through diet, exercise or stress - on brain function. He coordinates the multi-disciplinary hospital team treating adult eating disorders. In the medical school he teaches medicine, nutrition and public health courses and has been voted twice by the students, as an outstanding lecturer.

Berry has published over 150 articles and chapters in books, and is on the editorial board of three journals on clinical nutrition. He is currently an associate professor in both Internal Medicine and Nutrition. He has been a visiting scientist at the dept of Brain & Cognitive sciences at MIT, and at the Nestle research center, Lausanne.

He was a distinguished visiting scholar at Christ's College, Cambridge in 1998, and a visiting Professor at Yale medical school in 1999. In 1986, Berry was the secretary for the 5th International conference on Obesity, and in 2001 he organized the first national eating disorders conference in Jerusalem.

Berry has chaired national committees for food supplementation and is an advisor to the Ministry of Health on nutrition.