e-mail: Hurwitz@cc.huji.ac.il
Personal Data
Born in Israel, 1951
M.D degree from Tel Aviv University in 1976
Military Service from 1976 to 1980
Residency in the Department Obstetrics and Gynecology Hadassah University Hospital, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem from 1980 to 1986
Subspeciality in Reproductive Medicine at the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland from 1988 to 1991
Fields of interest:
Infertility (IVF and other related areas)
Endoscopic (laparoscopic) surgery
Basic research on the ovary (human and animal models
Awards and Grants
1986 - Hebrew University - Hadassah Fund
1988 - American Physician Fellowship award
1990 - Serono Research Fellowship award
1991 - Presidential presentation at the Annual meeting of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation, San Antonio, Texas
1992 - Hebrew University - Hadassah Fund
1993 - Grant from the Chief Scientist, Ministry of Health
1993 - The Israel Fertility Association prize lecture at the annual meeting of the Israel Fertility Society.
1996 - Grant from the Chief Scientist, Ministry of Health (with Dr. Revel)
2002 - Grant from the Women’s Health Fund.
Selected Chapters in Books
1. Hurwitz A, and Adashi E. Atresia as a case of programmed cell death.In:Adashi, E.Y. andLeung, PCK (Eds.), The Ovary.Raven Press, New York,1993
2. Adashi, E.Y., Resnick, C.E., Hurwitz, A.,Ricciarelli, E., C,.Hernanandez, E. R., Botero, L., Roberts, C. T., LeRoith D.,and Rosenfeld, R. G. The intraovarian IGF system as aparadigm for introvarian regulators. In:Magness, R. R., and Naftolin, F. (Eds.)Local Systems in reproduction.Serono syymposia Publications from RavenPress, Vol. 96, pp. 83-89, 1994
3. Adashi, E, Y., Hurwitz,A., Kokia, E The potential relevance of cytokines toovarian physiology. In : Findlay, J. K.(ed.) Molecular biology of the femalereproductive system. Academic Press,Inc. New York, NY, pp. 83-101,1994.
4. Ben-Shlomo I, Hurwitz A, Kokia E,Scherzer WJ, Donesky BW, Rohan RM,Payne DW, Adashi EY. Cytokines inovarian physiology: Interleukin-1 as a possible centerpiece in the ovulatory sequence. In: Aggarwal BB and Puri RK. (eds), Human Cytokines: Their role indisease and therapy, BlackwellScientific Publications,Cambridge, MA 1995, pp 327-333.
5. Simon A, Hurwitz A, Laufer N. In vitro fertilization.In; Infertility, A comprehensive text. Eds; Machelle M. Seibel Appelton Lange, Norwalk, Connecticut,1997
For List of Publications
see: PubMed