Tel: 02-6777183

Born  March 30, 1945 in Petah-Tikva, IIsrael

Present Positions

Professor of Psychiatry, the Hebrew University and Hadassah School of Medicine. Jerusalem.

Head, Department of Psychiatry, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel

Director and founder, Center for Traumatic  Stress, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem.

Editor and Co-Founder "Sihot" ("Dialogue") - Israel Journal of Psychotherapy .

Education

1965-1972 - Faculté de Medecine,  Montpellier,  France.  M.D. obtained in 1972.

1973-1979 - Residency training (psychiatry) Board certified in 1979

Professional Experience

1996-1997 Visiting Scientist, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge UK

1988-1997  Head, outpatient service, Department of Psychiatry, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem.

1997-Current Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services  University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA

1985-1987  Chief Psychiatrist , Israel Defense Forces, Medical Corps

1980-1985 Senior psychiatrist, Gehah psychiatric hospital. Tel-Aviv.

1979-1980  Commander, Central Psychiatric Clinic, Medical Corps, Israel Defense Forces,

Teaching experience

1988-Current  Undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, Hadassah and the Hebrew  University School of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel.

1981- current  Department of Mental Health, IDF, MC - teaching and training in combat psychiatry.

1982- 1994 Clinical Supervisor, School of Psychotherapy, Tel Aviv University Sackler School of Medicine

Ph.D. Thesis Supervised

The rhetoric of trauma (Ph.D., 1994)

Simple conditioning in PTSD and anxiety disorders (Ph.D., 1995)

Neuropsychologic dysfunction in trauma survivors with PTSD (Ph.D., 1996)

Decorations and Awards

1988 - Meritorious Service Award, Uniformed Service University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD

1995 - Robert S. Laufer Memorial Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement in the Field of PTSD, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies

Books

Shalev AY, McFarlane AC, Yehuda R. (editors) International Handbook of Human Response to Trauma. Kluwer/Plenum Publishers, New York, 2000

Book Chapters 

Shalev AY, Yehuda R.  Longitudinal Development of Post traumatic Disorders. In Oldham JM, Riba MB, American Psychiatric Press Review of Psychiatry, Vol. 17, 1988. American Psychiatric Press, Washington, D.C., 1998.

Pitman RK, Shalev AY, Orr SP Post-traumatic stress disorder, Emotion, Conditining and Memory, in Gazzaniga MS (editor) The Cognitive Neurosciences, 2nd Edition, pp. 1133-1148

Shalev AY Historical Concepts and Present Patterns: Stress Management and Debriefing. In Raphael B, Wilson T (editors) Psychological Debriefing. Theory Practice and Evidence.  Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 17-31

Shalev AY, Ursano RJ, Mapping the Multidimensional Picture of Acute Responses to Traumatic Stress. In Orner & Schnyder  Reconstructing early intervention after trauma. Oxford University Press, 2002

Shalev AY, Psycho-biological Perspectives on Early Reactions to Traumatic Events. In Orner & Schnyder Reconstructing early intervention after trauma. Oxford University Press, 2002

Journal Articles

Shalev AY, Freedman S, Peri T, Brandes D, Sahar T, Orr SP, Pitman RK. Prospective study of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Depression Following Trauma. American Journal of Psychiatry, 155:630-637, 1998

Shalev AY, Bloch M, Peri T, Bonne O. Alprazolam reduces galvanic skin response to auditory startle in panic disorder but not in PTSD. Biological Psychiatry, 44:64-68,1998

Shalev AY, Sahar T, Freedman S, Peri T, Glick N, Brandes D, Orr SP, Pitman RK.  A Prospective Study of heart rate responses following trauma and the subsequent development of PTSD. Archives of General Psychiatry, 55:553-559,1998

Shalev AY, Peri T, Rogel-Fuchs Y, Ursano RJ, Marlowe D.  Historical group debriefing following exposure to combat stress.  Military Medicine, 163:494-498, 1998

Freedman SA, Peri T, Brandes D, Shalev AY.  Predictors of chronic PTSD -  A prospective study. Br. J Psychiatry, 174: 353-359, 1999

Peri T, Ben-Sachar G, Orr, SP, Shalev AY. Psychophysiological Assessment of Aversive Conditioning in Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Biol Psychiatry. 47:512-519, 2000.

Shalev AY, Pitman RK, Orr SP, Peri T, Brandes D.  Auditory Startle in Trauma Survivors with PTSD: A prospective study. Am J of Psychiatry, 157:255-261, 2000

Shalev AY Measuring treatment response in PTSD. J Clin Psychiatry. 61 Suppl 5:33-39, 2000.

Shalev AY Biological responses to disasters. Seminars in Psychiatry, 17:277-287, 2000

Sahar T, Shalev AY, Porges S Vagal Modulation of Responses to Challenge in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Biological Psychiatry, 49: 637-645, 2001

Freedman S, Gluck N, Tuval-Mashiach R, Brandes D, Peri T, Shalev AY Gender differences in responses to traumatic Events: a Prospective Study. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 15: 407-414, 2002

Bonne, O.; Brandes, D.; Gilboa, A.; Gomori, J. M.; Shenton, M. E.; Pitman, R. K., and Shalev, A. Y. Longitudinal MRI study of hippocampal volume in trauma survivors with PTSD. Am J Psychiatry. 2001 Aug; 158(8):1248-1251.

Segman RH, Kooper-Kazaz R, Macciardi F, Gulcer T, Chalfon Y, Dubroborski T, Shalev AY. Association between the Dopamine Transporter Gene and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Molecular Psychiatry 7: 903-907, 2002

Shalev AY Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Primary Psychiatry, 8(10), 41-46, 2001.

Shalev AY Post-traumatic stress disorder. Disorder takes away human dignity and character. BMJ. 2001 May 26: 322(7297.

Shalev AY Acute stress reactions in adults. Biol Psychiatry. 51:532-543, 2002.

Brandes D, Ben-Schachar G, Gilboa A, Bonne O, Freedman S, Shalev AY PTSD symptoms and cognitive performance in recent trauma survivors Psychiatry Research, 110 (3) 231-238, 2002

Bonne O, Gorali Y, Shalev AY Classical Homeopathy in the Treatment of Generalized Anxiety Disorder, in press. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, in press, 2002

Pitman RK, Metzger LJ, Lasko NB, Hu FB, Shalev AY, Orr SP. Physiologic responses to sudden, loud tones in monozygotic twins discordant for combat exposure: Association with post-traumatic stress disorder. Archives of General Psychiatry, in press, 2002

Davidson JRT, Stein DJ Shalev AY, Yehuda R Posttraumatic stress disorder: acquisition, recognition, course and treatment Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, in press, 2002.

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