Department of Hematology
Hadassah University Hospital
Ein Karem, Jerusalem
and
Hebrew University Hadassah
School of Public Health
Email: ora@vms.huji.ac.il
Phone: 972-2-6777601
Fax: 972-2-6449145
Place of birth: Windsor, Canada
Year of birth: 1957
MD certificate
McGill University, Montreal in 1982
Residency
Internal Medicine in 1986, Canada
Hematology in 1989, Canada
MSc in Epidemiology and Biostatistics in 1988, Canada
Clinical/Academic work
Treatment of lymphoma patients
Research activities
· Cancer Epidemiology
· Clinical Epidemiology
Prizes and awards
2003 Hadassah Prize for Outstanding Researcher
2001 Rector’s List Teaching Award – Hebrew University
1999 Rector’s List Teaching Award – Hebrew University
1997 Rector’s List Teaching Award – Hebrew University
1996 Rector’s List Teaching Award – Hebrew University
1996 Tchorsh Family Award for Cancer Research
Dr. Ora Paltiel was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada and studied Medicine at McGill University in Montreal, where she received the gold medal upon graduation.
After completing her Internal Medicine training at Montreal General Hospital, she earned her Master degree in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from McGill University, where she went on to undertake her subspecialty training in Hematology.
In 1992, she and her family made aliyah and she joined the staff of the School of Public Health of Hadassah University Hospital. While her appointment is in the School of Public Health, she continued to be a practicing Hematologist through her affiliation with the Hematology Department.
Dr. Paltiel receives patients in the Lymphoma Clinic of Hadassah Ein Kerem and serves as attending physician in the Hematology Department.
Dr. Paltiel also has a very important role in teaching students at both the medical school level and the graduate (Master’s) level.
She organizes as well as teaches courses in Epidemiology and Clinical Epidemiology. She participates actively in teaching hematology to medical students. Not only is the quantity of her teaching impressive, but so is the quality.
She has received 5 awards for excellence in teaching, 4 of them here in Israel (where she teaches in Hebrew, a significant achievement).
In addition, to all of the above, Dr. Paltiel is an active academician, with a number of active research projects relating to epidemiology and quality of care. She also participates in several key committees in the school.
In the School of Public Health, Dr. Paltiel plays a vital role in promoting research and quality of care, cancer epidemiology and clinical epidemiololgy.
In addition, she performs studies to evaluate the level of care given at Hadassah. This type of internal audit regarding the success in treating a variety of clinical problems, adds immeasurable to the high standard of care given at Hadassah and contributes to the ongoing expectation of excellence in clinical practice.
Recent publications
1. Iscovich J, Paltiel O, Azizi E, Kuten A, Gat A, Lifzchitz-Mercer B, Zlotogorski A, Polliack A. Cutaneous lymphomas in Israel, 1985-1993: a population-based study. Br J Cancer 1998;77:170-3.
2. Paltiel O, Ronen I, Iscovitch J, Polliak A, Epstein L. The contribution of multiple data sources to a clinical audit of lymphoma in a teaching hospital. Int J Qual Health Care 1998;10(4):303-9.
3. Paltiel O, Ronen I, Polliack A, Epstein L. Two way referral bias: evidence from a clinical audit of lymphoma in a teaching hospital. J Clin Epid 1998;51(2):93-8.
4. Paltiel O, Zelenetz A, Sverdlin I, Gordon L, Ben Yehuda D. Translocation t(14;18) in healthy individuals: Preliminary study of its association with family history and agricultural exposure. Ann Oncol 2000; 11 (suppl. 1): S75-S80.
5. Paltiel O, Schmidt T, Adler B, Rachmilevitz EA, Polliack A, Cohen A, Haim N, Ben Shahar M. Epelbaum R, Barchana M, Ben Yehuda D. The incidence of lymphoma in first degree relatives of patients with Hodgkin’s disease and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Results and limitations of a registry linked study. Cancer 2000;88:2357-66.
6. Paltiel O, Salakhov E, Ronen I, Berg D, Israeli A. Management of severe hypokalemia in hospitalized patients: a study of quality of care based on computerized databases. Arch Int Med 2001;161:1089-95.
7. Paltiel O, Avitzour M, Peretz T, Cherny N, Kaduri L, Pfeffer RM, Wagner N, Soskolne V. Determinants of the use of complementary therapies in patients with cancer. J Clin Oncol 2001;19:2439-48.
8. Paltiel O, Brezis M, Lahad A. Principles for planning the teaching of evidence-based medicine/clinical epidemiology for MPH and medical students. Public Health Reviews 2002;30:261-70.
9. Paltiel O, Gordon L, Berg D, Israeli A. Effect of a computerized alert on the management of hypokalemia in hospitalized patients. Arch Intern Med 2003; 163:200-4.
10. Paltiel O, Rubinstein C, Or R, Nagler A, Gordon L, Deutsch L, Polliack A, Naparstek E. Factors associated with survival in patients with progressive disease following autologous transplant for lymphoma. Bone Marrow Transplantation 2003;31:565-569.