Director, Neonatology Unit
Hadassah Ein-Kerem Hospital
Mobile phone: 972-50-8573753
smadaref@hadassah.org.il
Personal details
Date of birth: March 29, 1960.
Country of birth: Israel.
Family status: Married, 3 children.
Military service: 1978-1981. Officer in charge, officers training course, IDF
Rank at discharge – Lieutenant.
Higher Education
1981-1984: Medical studies (pre-clinical years) at the Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
1984-1987: Doctor of Medicine: The Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel. (Internship at the Sheba Medical Center during 1988)
1990-1994: Residency in Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, and Hebrew University, Israel.
1996-1999: Fellowship in Neonatology, The Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
2002-2006: PhD degree: Department of Immunology, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
Appointments at the Hebrew University
2003: Lecturer in Pediatrics, The Hebrew University and Hadassah School of Medicine.
Additional Functions/Tasks at the Hebrew University and Hadassah
2009 - Head of Neonatology Unit, Hadassah Ein-Kerem Hospital, Hadassah Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
Service in other Academic and Research Institutions
1989-1990: Department of Internal Medicine, Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, Israel.
1996-1999: Clinical and research service at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
1999-2009: Senior Neonatologist, Department of Neonatology, Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, Israel.
2002-2006: PhD research and studies at The Weizmann Institute of Science, Basic Science Faculty, Rehovot, Israel.
2007-2009: Director, Neonatal-Perinatal Unit, Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, Israel.
1995- Member, The Israel Pediatric Association
2000- Member, The Israel Neonatology Association.
1995- Member, The Israel Association of clinical Pediatrics.
2009- Member of the European Society of Pediatric research (ESPR).
Prizes awarded
1994 - Stanley Levin Award for excellence in clinical and research work, Pediatric Department, Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot , and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
1998 - The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada. The Research Institute award for fellowship (RESTRACOM).
1999 - The best annual research competition poster award, the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
2002 - Award for excellence in clinical teaching, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
2003 - Award for excellence in clinical teaching, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
2006 - The Katzir-Katchalsky (Weizmann Institute of Science) student travel award.
2006 - Feinberg Graduate School Awards for Excellence (Weizmann Institute of Science – The Esther Helinger Memorial Prize).
Other Activities
1999-present: Teaching in pediatric courses for immigrant physicians, Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, Isarel.
2000 - Establishing and directing the Newborn Hearing Screening Program in the Newborn Department, Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot.
2001-2: Member of The committee on Sedation and Analgesia in Children, National Council for Health, Ministry of Health, Israel.
2004-present: Journal reviewer: The Journal of Pediatrics
2005-present: Member of The National Examination Committee in Neonatology, Israel Medical Scientific Council.
2007 - Director: Fetal-Neonatal Unit, Kaplan Medical
2007-9: Member of the Control Committee of the Israel Neonatal Society
2007-9: Member of the Kaplan Medical Center Committee for approaching quality interventions (projects/processes/studies) within the institute.
2008 - Instructor - basic science, Israel Medical association Scientific Council.
2008 - Member of the Kaplan Medical Center Scientific Committee for Residents.
Conferences Organization
2008 - Organizing Committee and Chair: 1st international conference on perinatal-neonatal immunology. Kaplan Medical Center, November 2008, Rehovot.
Research Grants
1998 - Research Training Award (REASTRACOM) at The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto.
1999 - The Striving for Excellence Fund for Research Competition at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto.
2006 - The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
2007 - Materna research foundation:
Teaching and supervision activities
Teaching of 4th and 6th year medical school students.
Supervision of M.D. degree students.
Supervision of Basic sciences thesis.
Examiner: Final examinations in Pediatrics, Neonatology, MSc degree..
Research activities
1. Immunology, growth and differentiation of embryonic tissues for transplantation
2. Effects of long chain poly-unsaturated fatty acids on immunological responses of preterm infants
3. Congenital Cytomegalovirus infection
For List of Publications see PubMed
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