Senior Neonatologist
The Department of Neonatology
Hadassah University Hospital Mount Scopus
P.O.B. 24035, Jerusalem, Israel.
Cell: 050-7874285
Phone: 02-5844432, (NICU)
Fax: 02-5813068
Email: zivanit@hadassah.org.il
Born: Israel, February 19, 1957
Family Status: Married, 3 children
Citizenship: Israeli
Army Service: Military M.D.
Higher Education
· Doctor of Medicine, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
· Pediatric Residency, Hadassah University Hospital, mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel
· Fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Hadassah University Hospital, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel
Appointments of the Hebrew University:
· Instructor in Pediatrics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
· Lecturer in Pediatrics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
· Scientific association’s memberships
· Member of the Israeli Neonatology association
· Academic activities at the Hebrew University
· Director of student’s education in Neonatology-2 courses a year: 4th year students, seminars in Neonatology 6th year students.
· Director of students’ education in neonatology for occupational therapy school, Hebrew University Jerusalem.
· Member of the Israeli Neonatology association - Education Committee for residents in Neonatology.
· Instructor at advanced cardiac life support course, in neonatal resuscitation.
· Administrator of the Vermont Oxford Network in neonatology-Hadassah Medical center.
· Lecturer in child birth education classes Hadassah Medical Center Ein Kerem
· Other Activities
· Administrator of the neonatal department risk management program.
Scientific contributions
Oxidative stress in a rat embryo model of Autoimmune diseases, Diabetes and fetal growth restriction.
Embryonic Damage Induced by Autoimmune antibodies reflected through Oxidative Stress:
The high sucrose low copper diet in the Cohen diabetic rat model: the liver copper content, oxidative stress markers and embryonic growth patterns.
Intrauterine growth retardation in the Cohen diabetic rat model
Neonatal Sepsis
Neonatal sepsis-10-year Follow-up: Patterns of infection and resistance.
Early detection of late onset sepsis in very low birth weight infants by a new software application.
Elimination of the Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci (VRE) from a neonatal intensive care unit following an outbreak.
Sonographic evaluation of umbilical artery thrombosis and correlation with duplex Evaluation of resistance in the renal arteries.
Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia
a. Team member of LED phototherapy development.
b. IVIG Therapy for neonatal immune hemolytic jaundice.
Grants
Hadassah Medical center grant for medical doctors, for one research day a week for 2 years. At the Laboratory of teratology, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School. Host: Prof. Asher Ornoy.
The Joint Research Fund between the Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine, and between Hadassah University Hospital, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, and Bikur Holim hospital, Collaborators: Dr. Benjamin Bar-oz; Prof. Asher Ornoy.
For List of Publications see PubMed