1973 -1979	Hadassah Hebrew University Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.
1980	Rotating internship, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
1981 - 1984	Residency program, Department of Pediatrics. Hadassah Medical center, Jerusalem, Israel.
1984 - 1987	Fellow in Cardiology, Hadassah University Medical Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.
1987 -1999	Clinical and Research fellow in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Cardiovascular Division, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
M.D. Thesis:	"Identification and characterization of extractable nuclear antigen".

Appointments:

1989 - 1990	Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.
1991 - 1997	Senior Physician, Cardiology Department, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.
1995	Founder of the Israeli Working Group for Interventional Cardiology
1995	Current Secretary General of the Israeli Working Group for Interventional Cardiology
1995	Committee Member, Israel Heart Society
1997	Current Director of Interventional Cardiology and Cardiac Catheterization, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.
2000	Director of Cardiology Department, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel

Special Committees:

Member, Special Committee for Recommendations for Coronary Catheterization; Israel Medical Organization & Israel Heart Society.
1998 - Current, Chairman, Committee for Certification and Licensing of Coronary Stenting; Israel Ministry of Health, Israeli Working Group for Interventional Cardiology .

Editorial Boards:

1997	- Journal of the Israel Heart Society
1997	- The Bulletin of Interventional Cardiology

Reviewer: American Journal of Cardiology, Journal of American College of Cardiology, Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis, International Journal of Cardiovascular Intervention

Memberships:

1980	Israel Medical Association
1990	Jerusalem Heart Society
1991	Israel Heart Society
	International Society of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
1992	International Society for Cardiovascular Epidemiology
1994	Israel Society for the Prevention of Atherosclerosis
1994	American College of Cardiology - Fellow
1995	Israel Working Group for Interventional Cardiology
	ISCAT - International Society of Carotid Artery Therapy

Teaching Appointments:

1982	Instructor, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
1986	Lecturer, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
1990	Senior lecturer, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
1995	Associate professor, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel

Mentor for M.D. Thesis:

1988     Mentor to J. Gurevitz
Title: Ventricular function, remodeling and coronary anatomy after successful intravenous thrombolysis in acute myocardial infarction.
Cardiology 1988;75(6):419-430

1994    Mentor to L. Lokovitzki
Title: Silent ischemia during exercise testing: Does it indicate a different angiographic and prognostic syndrome?
Cardiology 1994; 85:407-414

1998    Mentor to M. Jonas - HONORS
Title: Comparison of early invasive and conservative treatments in patients with anterior non-Q wave myocardial infarction.
Am J Cardiol, 1995; 76:330-336

1998     Mentor to S. Ekshtain
Title: Multivessel coronary stenting vs. bypass surgery in patients with multivessel coronary disease.

Professional Certification:

1980	ECFMG - Education Commission for Foreign Medical Students
1986	Pediatrics and Cardiology, Board examinations (part 1), Israel Medical Scientific Council, Jerusalem, Israel
1987	Cardiology, Board examinations (part 2), Israel Medical Scientific Council, Jerusalem, Israel
1989	FLEX - Federal Licensing Examination
1989	Medical License State of Alabama #14866 8/23/89
1989	Fellowship in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Awards and Grants:

1978	Elected class representative for medical student exchange program at Mt. Sinai, N.Y.
1987	Recipient of the Louis Schor Memorial Grant for research in cardiology.
1987	Recipient of International Fulbright Grant for research in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.
1988	Squibb Diagnostic and the Society for Cardiac Angiography fellowship award for research in cardiac imaging.
1989	Winning top award at the annual trainee research symposium, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
1990	Elected Chairman of Hospital doctors' Committee.
1992	Winning the Lipman Hailperin top award for outstanding teaching, School of Medicine, Hebrew University Hadassah Medical school.
1993	Elected Best Lecturer, Department of Cardiology, Hadassah University Hospital.
	Research grant from the Public Committee for the Designation of Estate Funds regarding the establishment of a national database for the assessment of patients with In-stent restenosis.
1999	2nd Prize for best poster, Research Day 25.05.99, 50th Jubilee of the Medical School, Jerusalem

Research Activities:

1989 - Current	Participation in major multi-center international trials as local Principle Investigator: GITS, SWORD, GUSTO, BIP, ARTS, EXCITE, SYMPHONY, PARAGON, BESTENT II, TRUST
1997 - 1998	Initiation and National Principle Investigator of the STOP study- a randomized multicenter Israeli study for stents in total occlusion and restenosis prevention. (Israel Working Group for Interventional Cardiology)
1997- 1998	Initiation and National Principle Investigator of a multicenter Israeli study to evaluate current approaches to the treatment of In-Stent Restenosis: assessment of clinical and angiographic characteristics and long term follow up.
1997	The establishment of HICC - Hadassah Interventional Cardiac Center as a core-lab for multicenter trials in Interventional Cardiology.
1997 - Current	Initiation and International Principle Investigator of the SMILE study - multicenter European study to assess the use of long ACS MULTI-LINKTM Coronary Stent in long diffuse lesions.
1998 - Current	Appointment as National Principle Investigator of an international multicenter study with small stents.
1998 - Current	Cooperation with Dr. Haj-Yehia, Hadassah School of Pharmacology, in a study regarding the evaluation of the effects of novel antisuperoxide-nitric-oxide-donors in experimental restenosis.
1998 - Current	Cooperation with Prof. Tova Chajek, Internal Medicine, Hadassah Hospital, regarding a special clinic and research program dealing with Coronary Disease in women.