Professor Allon E. Moses, MD
Chairman of the department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases
Specialist in Internal Medicine
Specialist in Infectious Diseases
Address
Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Hadassah University Hospital
Jerusalem 91120
e-mail: Allonm@hadassah.org.il
Date of Birth: December 15, 1953
Place of birth: U.S.A , Arrived in Israel 1956.
Phone: Work- 02-6776543
Fax- 02-6419545
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
1974 - 1981 M.D. Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
Postdoctoral Training
Internships and Residencies:
1981-1982 Internship, Assaf Haroffe Hospital and Hadassah Hospital, Jerusalem
1982-1983 Family physician, 18 months, as part of the Medical School project.
1983-1987 Residency, Department of Internal Medicine, Hadassah Mount
Scopus Hebrew University Medical School, Jerusalem.
1987 Six months laboratory work on factors influencing duration of
decisive period of antibiotic prophylaxis in experimental dermal
infection model in guinea-pigs.
Research Fellowships:
1988-1989 Clinical Fellowship, Department of Microbiology Infectious Disease Unit, Hadassah Medical Center
1989-1990 Clinical Fellow, Division of Infectious Diseases, Beth Israel Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
1990-1991 Research Fellow, Division of Infectious Diseases, Beth Israel Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
Academic Appointments
1986 Instructor in Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Hadassah Mt. Scopus University Hospital
1988 Instructor in Medicine, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Hadassah University Hospital
1989-1990 Clinical Fellow in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston
1990-1991 Research Fellow in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston
1.4.92-1996 Lecturer in Clinical Microbiology. Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Hadassah University Hospital
1996-2005 Senior Lecturer in Clinical Microbiology. Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Hadassah University Hospital
2005- Associate Professor in Clinical Microbiology. Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Hadassah University Hospital
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT
2005- Chairman, Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Hadassah University Hospital
1991-2005 Attending physician in Infectious Disease. Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Hadassah University Hospital
1989 - 1991 Clinical and research fellow, Beth Israel, Brigham and Women's Hospitals and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
1988-1989 Fellow, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem.
1983-1988 Resident, Department of Medicine Hadassah Mount Scopus, Jerusalem.
1981-1983 Physician, Kupat Cholim Clinic. Jerusalem.
Scientific grant reviews and Journal reviews
Reviewer of grants for the following:
1. The Israel Academy of Sciences.
2. Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Health, Israel.
3. Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
4. Reviewer for grants of the German Israeli Foundation (GIF)
Reviewer of manuscripts for the following journal:
1. Clinical Infectious Diseases
2. Molecular Microbiology
3. Israel Medical Association Journal
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
Recent years
- Ravins M, Jaffe J, Hanski E, Strzegovski I, Natanson-Yaron S, and Moses AE. Characterization of a mouse-passaged, highly encapsulated variant of group A streptococcus in In-vitro and In-vivo studies. J Infect Dis. 182:1702-11.2000.
- Marcus EL, Almark L, Shapiro M and Moses AE. Antimicrobial resistance patterns among urine isolates from patients in a geriatric hospital and from older patients in a general hospital in Jerusalem. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2:34-40.2001.
- Marcus EL, Clarfield MA, Moses AE. Ethical issues in antimicrobial therapy in the elderly. Clin Infect Dis. 33:1692-1705. 2001.
- Moses AE, Goldberg S, Korenman Z, Ravins M, Hanski E, Shapiro M. Invasive group A streptococcal infection in Israel: A prospective population-based investigation. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 8:421-6. 2002.
- Hidalgo-Gras C, Ravins M, Dan-Goor M, Jaffe J, Moses AE, Hanski E. A locus of group A Streptococcus involved in invasive disease and DNA transfer. Mol Microbiol. 46:87-99. 2002
- Moses AE, Hidalgo-Grass C, Dan-Goor M, Jaffe J, Shetzigovsky I, Ravins M, Korenman Z, Cohen-Poradosu R, Nir-Paz R. emm typing of M nontypeable invasive group A streptococcal isolates in Israel. J Clin Microbiol. 41:4655-9. 2003.
- Hidalgo-GrassC C, Dan-GoorT M, MalyC A, EranS Y, KwinnS LA, NizetC V, RavinsS M, JaffeS J, PeyserC A, MosesPI AE, HanskiPI E. Degradation of host chemokines in group A streptococcal necrotising skin infections: A novel virulence mechanism that is reversed by a bacterial pheromone peptide. The Lancet. 363:696-703. 2004.
- Cohen-PoradosuC R, JaffeS J, LaviC D,Grisariu-GreenzaidC S,Nir-PazC R, Dan-GoorT M, BlockC C, BeallC B, MosesPI AE. Group G Streptococcal Bacteremia in Jerusalem: Clinical, Epidemiological Characteristics and emm Typing. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 10:1455-60. 2004.
- Nir-PazPI R, KorenmanC Z, GorodnitzkyC Z, JaffeC J, Cohen-PoradosuC R, ShapiroC M, BlockC C, MosesPI AE. Antibiotic resistance and characterization of Streptococcus pyogenes isolates from invasive infections in Israel. J Clin Microbiol. Manuscript in Revision.
- MosesPI AE, RahavC G, BarenholzC Y, ElidanC J, AzazC B, GillisC S, BrickmaC M, PolacheckC I, ShapiroC M. Rhinocerebral mucormycosis treated with amphotericin B colloidal dispersion in three patients. Clin Inf Dis. 26:1430-3, 1998.
- MosesPI AE, M. BeeriC, D. EngelhardC. Group A streptococcal meningitis: Report of two cases. J. Infection. 36:116-8, 1998.
- GisserC JM, FieldsC MC, PickC N, MosesC AE, SrugoPI I. Invasive group A streptococcus associated with an intrauterine device and oral sex. Sex Transmd Dis. 29:483-5. 2002
- Moses API, Cohen-PoradosC R. Eczema vaccinatum – A timely reminder.
- N Eng J Med. 17:1287. 2002.
- MosesPI AE, Hidalgo-GrassC C, Dan-GoorT M, JaffeS J, ShetzigovskyS I, RavinsS M, KorenmanC Z, Cohen-PoradosuC R, Nir-PazC R. emm typing of M nontypeable invasive group A streptococcal isolates in Israel. J Clin Microbiol. 41:4655-9. 2003. (3.565;15/82).
- Hidalgo-GrassC C, Dan-GoorT M, MalyC A, EranS Y, KwinnS LA, NizetC V, RavinsS M, JaffeS J, PeyserC A, MosesPI AE, HanskiPI E. Degradation of host chemokines in group A streptococcal necrotising skin infections: A novel virulence mechanism that is reversed by a bacterial pheromone peptide. The Lancet. 363:696-703. 2004.
- Cohen-PoradosuC R, JaffeS J, LaviC D,Grisariu-GreenzaidC S,Nir-PazC R, Dan-GoorT M, BlockC C, BeallC B, MosesPI AE. Group G Streptococcal Bacteremia in Jerusalem: Clinical, Epidemiological Characteristics and emm Typing. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 10:1455-60. 2004.
- Elinav H, Palladas L, Applbaum YH, Gilead L, Moses AE, Cohen-Poradosu R. Plantar ulcers and eyebrow-hair paucity. Clin Infect Dis. 2006 42(5):684-5, 722-4.
- Nir-PazPI R, KorenmanC Z, GorodnitzkyC Z, JaffeC J, Cohen-PoradosuC R, ShapiroC M, BlockC C, MosesPI AE. Antibiotic resistance and characterization of Streptococcus pyogenes isolates from invasive infections in Israel. Int J Antimicrob Agent. 2006 ;28(4):313-9