Updated May 2006
Investigator
Center for Research, Prevention and
Treatment of Atherosclerosis
Department of Medicine
Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem.
Date of birth: 21.07.49
Marital status: Married and a father of five children
Education
1963-67 Secondary Education, Jerusalem, Israel.
1971-77 Medical School, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem.
Post Graduate Training
1977-78 Rotating Internship, Shaare Zedek Hospital, Jerusalem.
1979-84 Pediatric Residency, Department of Shaare Zedek Hospital, Jerusalem.
1987 Training course in Mental Retardation, Elwyn Philadelphia, Pen., U.S.A.
Army Service
1967-70 Medic in Israeli Army and since1984 Flight Surgeon (rank of a Major), Aviation Medicine, Israeli Air Force.
Medical Licenses
1976 Israel Medical License No. 14174 (General Medicine).
1985 Israel Medical License No. 8178 (Board Certified in Pediatric Medicine).
Academic Degrees
1977 M.D., Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem.
Professional experience
1984 - Pediatrician, Ramot - Medical Center, Jerusalem.
1989-2002 Senior Medical Director, Elwyn Institute for Mental Retardation, Jerusalem.
1993-2005 Co-investigator, Center for Research, Prevention and Treatment of Atherosclerosis, Division of Medicine, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem.
2005 - Investigator, Center for Research, Prevention and Treatment of Atherosclerosis, Division of Medicine, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem.
Awards
Hebrew University- Hadassah Medical School, Faculty Prize, Doljanski 1977 ‑ Best M.D. Thesis of the Year.
Keren Sapir - Israeli Loterry (refrence 1).
Michael and Adelaide Kennedy-Leigh award, Shaare Zedek Hospital, 1983 (reference 10).
Scientific Organizations
· Israel Medical Society (Member)
· Israel Association for Clinical Pediatrics (Member)
· International Atherosclerosis Society (Member)
· Israel Society for Research, Prevention and Treatment of Atherosclerosis (Member)
Post graduate course
Sep 2001 Good Clinical Practice (GCP) Course directed by miami.edu/courses/irbtraining
Feb. 2004 GCP – Good Clinical Practice and Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials. Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem.
Industry-supported Research Grants
1993-96 Sandoz Pharma Ltd., Basel Switzerland. Fluvastatin in FH
1993-96 Merck and Co.(through Assia Riesel Ltd.) MED PED FH research
1997-00 Novartis Pharma AG, Basel Switzerland. Fluvastatin in FH
1997-00 MSD – Israel. MED PED FH research
1997-98 MSD – Israel. Simvastatin-Atorvastatin trial
1997-99 MSD – Israel. FH-Express Trial
1998-99 Merck & Co. – University Program. LDL-R in FH families
1999-04 Astra-Zeneca. FH studies
1999-00 Negma-Kowa. Combined hyperlipidemia
2000-03 Schering-Plough. Ezetimibe in Homozygote FH
2004-05 MRL. MTP inhibitor in Homozygote FH
2004-05 MRL. MTP inhibitor in Type V hyperlipidemia
2004-06 Sankyo. ACAT inhibitor in FH
2006- Sankyo. Pediatric FH Study
2006- Kowa. Hyperlipidemia in Elderly patients
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
Original Articles
Eisenberg S, Schurr D (1976) Phospholipid removal during degradation of rat plasma very low density lipoprotein in vitro. J Lipid Res 17:578-87
Eisenberg S, Schurr D, Goldman H, Olivecrona T (1978) Comparison of the phospholipase activity of bovine milk lipoprotein lipase against rat plasma very low density and high density lipoprotein. Biochim Biophys Acta 531:344-51
Schurr D, Herbert J, Habibi E, Abrahamov A (1983) Unusual presentation of vitamin A intoxication. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 2:705-7
Urbach J, Schurr D, Abramov A (1983) Prolonged remission of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (Still's disease) following measles. Acta Paediatr Scand 72:917-8
Schimmel MS, Eidelman AI, Schurr D (1984) Driscoll-JM. Neonatal intracranial hemorrhage-update. Harefuah 106:515-8
Schurr D, Efrat R, Drukker A (1984) Reversible end-stage renal failure in systemic lupus erythematosus. Harefuah 107:281-2
Prat O, Schurr D, Pomeranz A, Farkas A, Drukker A (1984) Renal candidiasis in infancy-a case with fungus ball obstruction. Int J Pediatr Nephrol 5:223-6
Schurr D, Pomeranz A, Drukker A (1984) Dialysis-induced hypoxemia. Continuous monitoring of blood oxygen and carbon dioxide tension in children. Nephron 37:105-7
Pomeranz A, Reichenberg Y, Schurr D, Drukker A (1985) Acute renal failure in a burn patient: the advantages of continuous peritoneal dialysis. Burns include Therm Inj 11:367-70
Schurr D, Levy E, Goldstein R, Stankiewicz H, Pomeranz A, Drukker A (1987) Intestinal fat malabsorption in the uremic rat. Int J Pediatr Nephrol 8:129-34
Reichenberg Y, Pomeranz A, Schurr D, Levy E, Stankiewicz H, Elath U, Rosenmann E, Drukker A (1991) Dietary induced hyperlipidemia and renal function in the uremic rat. Child Nephrol Urol 11:1-5
Marcus-Harel T, Silverstone BZ, Seelenfreund M, Schurr D, Berson D (1991) Retinal detachment with high myopia in the Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome. Metab Pediatr Syst Ophthalmol 14:53-6
Stabholz A, Mann J, Sela-M, Schurr D, Steinberg D, Shapira J (1991) Caries experience, periodontal treatment needs, salivary pH, and Streptococcus mutans counts in a preadolescent Down syndrome population. Spec Care Dentist 11:203-8
Shapira J, Stabholz A, Schurr D, Sela MN, Mann J (1991) Caries levels, Streptococcus mutans counts, salivary pH, and periodontal treatment needs of adult Down syndrome patients. Spec Care Dentist 11:248-51
Shapira J, Sgan-Cohen HD, Stabholz A, Sela MN, Schurr D, Goultschin J (1994) Clinical and microbiological effects of chlorhexidine and arginine sustained-release varnishes in the mentally retarded. Spec Care Dentist 14: 158-63
Friedman G, Gabizon R, Shpira A, Castel H, Wertman E, Matsa D, Rosenman H, Schurr D, Wirtheim E, Friedlander Y, Ben Yehuda A (1995) Association of apolipoprotein Ee4 alleles with Alzheimer's disease but not with Down's syndrome or Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease. Alzheimer's Research 1:45-48
Eliav O, Schurr D, Pfister P, Friedlander Y, Leitersdorf E (1995) High dose fluvastatin and bezafibrate combination treatment of patients with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia. Am J Cardiol 76:76A-79A.
Reshef A, Nissen H, Triger L, Hensen TS, Eliav O, Schurr D, Safadi R, Gare M, Leitersdorf E (1996) Molecular genetics of familial hypercholesterolemia in Israel. Human Genetics 98:581-586.
Knoblauch H, Müller-Myhsok B, Busjahn A, Ben Avi L, Bähring S, Baron H, Heath SC, Uhlmann R, Faulhaber HD, Shpitzen S, Aydin A, Reshef A, Rosenthal M, Eliav O, Mühl A, Lowe A, Schurr D, Harats D, Jeschke E, Friedlander Y, Schuster H, Luft FC, Leitersdorf E (1999) A Cholesterol-lowering gene maps to chromosome 13q. Am J Hum Genet, in press.
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