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Dr. Mohammad Faroja, MD

 

 

Department of General Surgery,

Hadassah-Hebrew University

Hospital Ein-Karem

Jerusalem, 91120, Israel

Alternative Address: Qalanswe 42837

P.O. box 885, Israel

Work Phone: +972-2-6778800

Cell Phone: +972-50-874744

Fax: +972-2-6449412

Email: mm@hadassah.org.il

faroja@hadassah.org.il

 

 

Personal Details 

Date of birth: 26/07/1968

Place of birth: Kfarsaba, Israel

Marital status: Single

Nationality: Israel

 

Language skills

Arabic: Mother Tongue

Hebrew: Mother Tongue level

English: Fluently

German: Mother Tongue level

 

Professional Experience

 

2007-2008: Fellow, Liver Transplant, Hospital of the University of Medicine Campus Virchow Berlin, Germany

 

01/2001: Specialisation in General Surgery at Hadassah Ein-Karem Medical Center

 

12/1999 – 11/2000: Internship at Hadassah Ein-Karem and Hadassah

Mount Scopus Medical Centers

 

9/1998 – 4/1999: Working at Magen David Adom in Taibah

 

3/1994: Vocational Training in Beilinson Hospital's Emergency Room – Rabin Medical CenterPetah Tiqwa

 

1990 – 1993: Working as a nurse in OR during my studies at a university hospital in Göttingen – Germany

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Advanced Studies

 

2008: Participation at the Tumor Conference of Resident Oncologists, Berlin, Germany

 

2007: Hebrew University animal facility certification for large animal and rodent surgery and care

 

2007: Hebrew University animal facility certification for small animals and rodent surgery and care

 

2007: Definitive surgical trauma care (DSTC) course. Haifa, Israel

 

2006 -2007: Maintenance and Experimentation on Laboratory Animal Course. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

 

2003: Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) course

 

11/2002: Basic Laparoscopic Surgery Course in Germany

 

2000: Advanced Clinical Life Support (ACLS) course

 

Certification

 

2000: Medical License, State of Israel

2009: Certification in General Surgery, Israel Ministry of Health

2008: German Medical License

 

Tutorials

 

2005: Instructor in Surgery, Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

 

Fifth-Year Medical Students: Fluent tutoring for a whole year in a surgery center

 

Frontal lectures, instructed calls and instruction

 

Sixth-Year Medical Students: Instructor in a trauma course

 

Hospital Committees Activities

 

2009: Committee for Evaluation of MD. Thesis for Graduating Medical Students - Member

 

Education

 

3/2007: Board Examination II in Surgery, successfully

 

6/2005: Board Examination I in Surgery, successfully

 

2001-?: Specialization in General Surgery at Hadassah Ein-Kerem Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.

Divided as follows:

3 months in Pediatric Surgery

3 months in an Emergency Room

3 months in a Transplantation Unit

3 months in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

3 months in an Intensive Care Unit

 

7/1999: National Licensing Examination, successfully

 

1990-1997: Studies of Medicine at Göttingen University School of Medicine, Germany, successfully

 

1989 – 1989: Studies of Chemistry at Göttingen University School

of Medicine, Germany

 

1988 – 1989: Studies of German Language at Göttingen University,

Germany

 

1983 – 1986: Matriculation License in Biology and Natural Sciences in a High School in Tira, Israel

 

1980 – 1983: Junior High School in Qalanswe, Israel

 

1973 – 1980: Elementary School in Qalanswe, Israel

 

Articles

 

1.Suicide bombing attacks: Can external signs predict internal injuries? Almogy Gidon ; Mintz Yoav ; Zamir Gideon ; Bdolah-Abram Tali ; Elazary Ram ; Dotan Livnat Faruga Mohammad ; Rivkind Avraham I.. Ann Surg 2006;243:541–6J

 

2. Intestinal stenosis causing small bowel obstruction after non-operative management of blunt abdominal trauma. Bala, Miklosh MD; Lebenthal, Abraham MD; Pikarsky, Eli MD; Faroja, Mohammed MD; Rivkind, Avraham I. MD, FACS; Mintz, Yoav MD The Journal of Trauma, Injury, Infection and Critical Care, June 2007 62(6): 1511-1513

 

3. Blunt Splenic Trauma: Predictors for Successful Non-Operative Management: Miklosh Bala, MD, Yair Edden, MD, Yoav Mintz, MD, David Kisselgoff, MD, Irina Gercenstein, MD, Avraham I. Rivkind, MD, Mohammad Faroja, MD and Gidon Almogy, MD. IMAJ 2007: 9: December: 857-86

 

4. Focal liver necrosis appears early after partial hepatectomy and its dependent on T-cells and antigen delivery from the gut.  Rudich N, Zamir G, Papo O, Shlomai Z, Faroja M, Weiss ID, Wald H, Galun E, Peled A, Wald A. Liver Int (in press)

 

Presentations at Meetings

 

24th Biennial Surgical Meeting: Stopping Gallbladder Leakage by Injecting Alcohol. 12th Annual Meeting of the Israel Society for Organ Transplantation (ISOT):

 

Adult to Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation (AALDLT) Initial Experience in the Setting of Severe Organ Shortage (G. Samir, O. Jurim, Y. Berlatzky, Y. Nir, M. Faroja, Y.G. Weiss, I. Matot, O. Shibolet, R. Safadi, Y. Sosna, A. Eid) Hadassah, Medical Center, Ein-Kerem

 

Therapeutic Arteriogenesis for Hind Limb Ischemia using VEGF Activated Bone Marrow Derived Monocytes (M. Grunewald, Israel/France, J. Vilar, France, A. Itin, Israel, A. Recalde, France, M. Faroja, J-S. Silvestre, Israel)

 

26th Biennial Surgical Meeting: Complications in High-grade Liver Injury - Therapy and Results.  M. Bala, M. Faroja, A. Keidar, A. Blum, G. Zamir, A. Rivkind.

 

Parenchymal Punch Out Lesion Formation Following Partial Hepatectomy is T Cell Dependant and related to Antigen Delivery from the Gut: M. Faroja, M. Bala, O. Papo, N. Rudich, O. Wald, G. Zamir, I. Weiss

 

Transplantation as Therapy for Primary Liver Cancer: Y. Nir, G. Zamir, M. Faroja, O. Stein, A. Eid

 

Research

 

1. The role of the chemokine receptors CCR1, CCR2 and CCR 5 in liver regeneration following partial hepatectomy. MD Yamir Gedeon, Hebrew UniversityHadassah Medical School

 

2. The role of VEGF in Liver regeneration after partial hepatectomy: Eli Keshet PhD, Hebrew UniversityHadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel. Myriam Grunewald, Hebrew University - Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

 

3. Detection of tumor cells in peripheral blood: Prof. Salama, Director of Transfusion Medicine/ Charité, Campus Virchow Clinic, Berlin, Germany, 2008

 

Research Grant

 

2007: Grant from the Joint Research Fund of the Hebrew University and Hadassah, Shaare Zedek, Bikur Holim (7500$): The role of the chemokine receptors CCR1, CCR2 and CCR5 in liver regeneration following partial hepatectomy.

                                                                                             

 

 




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