Peritoneal Dialysis Services
Nephrology and Hypertension Services
E-mail: abloch@hadassah.org.il
Military service
1986-1990 - Officer, Golani Brigade of the Israeli Defense Forces
Education
1984-1985: Bnei Akiva Yeshiva in Kfar HaRoe, Emek Heffer
1990 - Religious Kibbutz Yeshiva- Ein Tzorim
1990-1997: Hebrew University and Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
Professional Experience – Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center
1998-2002 - Residency, Internal Medicine, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center
2002-2006 - Fellowship, Nephrology and Hypertension Services, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center
2006-present - Senior Physician, Nephrology and Hypertension Services, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center
2009-present - In charge of Peritoneal Dialysis Services in Hadassah
Specialty boards certification of Israeli Medical Association, Scientific Council
2002 - Internal Medicine
2006 - Nephrology and Hypertension
Awards
2000 - Outstanding Resident of the Internal Medicine Department, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center
2003 - Outstanding teacher Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem
2006 - Outstanding teacher Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem
2008 - Outstanding teacher Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem
2009 - Outstanding teacher Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem
Research Experience
2002 - Liver research clinic: "Function and Process of NKT cells of peripheral blood in HCV patients"
Teaching Assignments
1998-2002 - Physical examination for 3rd and 4th years medical students
2002- present - Clinical Nephrology to 6th years Medical student
2004- present - Nephrology for intensive care nurses
2005- present - Clinical Nephrology for Pharmacology students
2005- present - Introductory course in internal medicine to 4th year medical students - nephrology. Course No 96713
2008- present - In charge of teaching in Nephrology and Hypertension services
Presentations at Scientific Meetings
2003 - The Israeli Society of Nephrology and Hypertension conference of Calcium and Phosphate metabolism, entitled ' Caesarea, Israel
2007 - The Israeli Society of Nephrology and Hypertension conference of Hemodialysis, entitled 'Experience with Calcimimetics in Israel'. Maalot, Israel
2008 - Israeli Society of Nephrology and Hypertension workshop, entitled 'The coming age of calcimimetics' Tel-Aviv, Israel
Publications
1: Szalat A, Krasilnikov I, Bloch A, Meir K, Rubinger D, Mevorach D. Acute renal failure and interstitial nephritis in a patient treated with rofecoxib: case report and review of the literature. Arthritis Rheum. 2004 Aug 15;51(4):670-3. Review.
2: Safadi R, Israeli E, Papo O, Shibolet O, Melhem A, Bloch A, Rowe M, Alper R, Klein A, Hemed N, Segol O, Thalenfeld B, Engelhardt D, Rabbani E, Ilan Y. Treatment of chronic hepatitis B virus infection via oral immune regulation toward hepatitis B virus proteins. Am J Gastroenterol. 2003 Nov;98(11):2505-15.
3: Bloch A, Ben-Chetrit E, Muszkat M, Caraco Y. Major bleeding caused by warfarin in a genetically susceptible patient. Pharmacotherapy. 2002 Jan;22(1):97-101.
4: Fridlender ZG, Bloch A. [Pneumomediastinum following drug abuse]. Harefuah. 2000 Dec;139(11-12):411-3, 496.
Abstracts
1. Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: are Men and Women Equal?
Irit Mor-Yosef Levi, Michal Aharon, Dvora Rubinger, Anca Moscovici-Gal, Rivka Bakenroth, Olga Gotsman, Aharon Bloch, Ronen Levi,
Keren Tzukert, Yossef Haviv, Justin Silver and Michal Dranitzki Elhalel.
Nephrology and Hypertension Services, Hadassah – Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem. Annual Meeting of the Israel Society of Nephrology and Hypertension, Kfar Blum, 2010. Oral presentation.
2. Early and Multiple Pregnancies Following Renal Transplantation – The Jerusalem Experience - Ofir Gilad, Michal Aharon, Dvora Rubinger, Rebecca Backenroth, Olga Gotzman, Anca Moscovici, Aharon Bloch, Ronen Levi, Justin Silver, Michal Dranitzki Elhalel, Hadassah - Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel Annual Meeting of the Israel Society of Transplantation, Hagosheim, 2010. Oral presentation.