Department of Medicine
Hadassah University Hospital
Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem.
Curriculum Vitae
Place & date of birth :
Tel Aviv, Israel, November 5, 1949.
Citizenship : Israeli
Marital status : Married + 4
Education and Professional Experience
1968-1973 Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem
1973-1974 Internship at the Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer
1974-1978 Military service as a medical officer, Israeli Defense Forces (I.D.F.)
1976 Part time family practitioner in rural settlements in the Jordan Valley.
1978-1982 & 1984-1985 Specialized in internal medicine at the Hadassah University Hospitals, and certified specialist.
1979 Member, I.D.F./Governmental Israeli medical delegation to Cambodian refugee camp, Sakeo, Thailand.
1982-1983 Service in the I.D.F. as a senior medical officer (lieutenant colonel).
1986-1989 Head of the Emergency Services, in charge of the Medical and Hematological Day Care Unit and an attending senior physician in the Department of Medicine in the Hadassah University Hospital, Mt Scopus, Jerusalem.
1988 Member, the Israeli Army medical relief team to Soviet Armenia.
1989-1991 Research fellow in Medicine (renal pathophysiology, sponsored by FH Epstein MD), The Charles A. Dana Research Institute and the Harvard-Thorndike Laboratory of Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston.
1991-1993 Service in the Israel Defense Forces. In charge of the medical systems in the Northern Command (full colonel).
1993 - present Senior physician, Department of Medicine, Hadassah University Hospital, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem
1994 M.A.S.H. Commander, IDF mission for Rwandan refugees, Goma, Zaire.
1997-1998 Active Head of the Department of Medicine, Hadassah University Hospital, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem.
2000 Team-head, medical relief operation, Northern Wollo, Ethiopia (Jewish Agency)
2003- present Medical Director, Bayer House for the Aged (a 200-beds nursing home)
2003-present Head, Academic Division of Internal Medicine (and related sub-specialties), the Hebrew University Medical School
1998-2000 and2003-present Member of Senate, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Academic Appointments
1981 Instructor of Medicine, Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem.
1988 Lecturer of Medicine, Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem.
1989-1991 Research fellow, Dana research institute, Department of Medicine and the Harvard Center for the Study of Kidney Diseases, Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Hospital.
1994 Senior Lecturer, Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem.
1998 Associated Professor of Medicine, Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem
License and Qualifications
1973 USA: ECFMG (no 198 692 6)
1975 Israel: Licensed physician (LN 11609)
1986 Israel: Certified specialist in Internal Medicine (LN 8871)
1992 ATLS
1994 CTLS
1999 Israel: Certified specialist in Emergency Medicine (LN 1978)
Membership in Scientific Societies
1973 - Israeli Medical Association
1986-9 American Association of Emergency Medicine
1993 - Israeli Council of Emergency Medicine
1995 - Israeli Society of Internal Medicine
1996 - Israeli Society of Toxicology
1997 - American Society of Nephrology
Invited Lectures in International Scientific Meetings
The pathophysiology of radiocontrast nephropathy. The Annual Meeting of the French Association of Radiology, Paris, 1995.
The renal medulla: life at the edge of anoxia. Third Annual Symposium on Applied Physiology of the Peripheral Circulation, Barcelona, 1996.
Airborne field hospital in disaster area: lessons from Armenia (1988) and Rwanda (1994). Pharmacy Word Congress, Military Section, Jerusalem, 1996.
Furosemide and oxygen sparing. Intensive Care Society Focus Meeting: Prevention of Renal Failure. Royal Society of Medicine, London, 1998.
Moderating a Consensus Conference about animal models of acute renal failure: the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative (ADQI) meeting, Vicenza, Italy, May 2002
The role of the renal medulla in the pathophysiology of ischemic acute renal failure: The European Workgroup of Cardiothoracic Intensivists, the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, Gothenburg/Marstrand, Sweden, Sept 2002
Regional alterations in renal hemodynamics and oxygenation: A role in radiocontrast nephropathy. European Renal Association Meeting, May 2004 (pending)
Other Invited Local Major Presentations
Hadassah University Hospitals: Institutional Clinical Conference: Disaster Medicine, 2001
Soraskey Medical Center: Discussing a CPC: Multi-organ failure in a young soldier, 2001
The US – Israeli Solidarity Medical conference Jerusalem: The role of Outer Medullary Hypoxic injury in acute renal failure. 2002
The Israeli Association of physiology: Renal Medullary Hypoxia: Physiology and Pathophysiology, 2003
Major Educational Projects
1986-current Implementation of clinical medical education in the Departments of Medicine and Emergency Services, Hadassah University Hospital, Mt. Scopus
1999-2002 In charge of the “Introduction to Clinical Medicine” course, 1st clinical year, Hebrew University Medical School
2001- 2003 Buildup, and Course director “Problem-Based Learning (PBL)” course in 1st clinical year, Hebrew University Medical School
2001 Course director (Health Promotion), the 1st course of Master’s degree in Nursing, Hebrew University
Research Projects
Renal physiology: Physiology of the renal microcirculation; the pathophysiology of acute renal failure and acute tubular necrosis; Radiocontrast nephropathy; Intrarenal stress response and expression of hypoxia inducible factors
Emergency medicine: Disaster medicine – organization of medical facilities
Geriatrics: Physical activity in totally incapacitated patients
For List of Publications
please see: PubMed