Married, 2 children
Higher Education
1985-1991: Hadassah – Hebrew University Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel. Bachelor's degree (Bsc) with honors and MD.
1990: Three month clerkship at Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
Degrees & Appointments at the Hebrew University:
1988: B.Sc. Med with honors, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
1992: MD, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
1/10/1996 – 2000: Instructor, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. Internal Medicine
1/10/2000: Lecturer, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. Internal Medicine
Professional Experience
8/1992-7/1993: Rotating internship, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.
1993-1996: Resident, Division of Internal Medicine, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.
9/1995-2/1996: Basic research in the Department of Clinical Pharmacology and the Atherosclerosis Research Unit Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel. Topic: Pharmacogenetics of Cytochrome P450 in the Israeli population.
1996: Chief Resident, Division of Internal Medicine, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.
9/1996-7/1997: Senior Registrar, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.
8/1997-7/1999: Fellow, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.
1996-present: Establishment and development of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Hadassah as a field in need in the Medical Division, together with Prof David Linton.
8/1999-2000: Senior physician, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.
6/2002- present: Consultant and co-director, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.
11/2006-11/2007: Acting Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.
Post-Fellowship
12/2000- 6/2002: Intensive Care Unit, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Western Australia. Host: Prof Peter Vernon van Heerden, Director ICU.
Clinical Activities
- Complicated critically ill medical patients including sepsis, multi-organ failure, respiratory failure, acute renal, hepatic failure, neurological diseases, hemato-oncology.
- Modern ventilation technologies (invasive & non-invasive)
- Weaning from mechanical ventilation
- Consultant, chronic ventilation unit, Herzog Hospital, Jerusalem
Areas of interest & Research
- Prognostication in Intensive Care
- Closed loop mechanical ventilation
- Ethics of End of life
Examinations and Licensing
1992: Permanent license in Medicine
1997: Certified as specialist in Internal Medicine
2000: Certified as specialist in General Intensive Care
Medical School Committees
1998-2000: 6th year final examination committee in Medicine, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
2000-2001: Coordinator, 4th year Introduction to Clinical Medicine course.
2003-present: Establisher and Coordinator of the revised, 4th year Physical Examination course for Medical Students.
2005-present: MD dissertation committee
2006-present: Hebrew University Medical School Acceptance Committee Interviewer
2007-present: Committee to evaluate 4th year and 6th year Medical students' clerkships in Internal Medicine
Examiner
1994-present: Examiner, 4th year Physical Examination
1999- present: Final oral exams in Internal Medicine, 6th year Medical Students.
2002- present: Final dissertation for MA degree in nursing (ICU).
2005- present: Member of Final Examinations committee and Examiner, "shlav A" and "shlav B" in General Intensive Care.
2008: Observer, the Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand general Intensive Care Fellowship examination, Melbourne, Australia.
Hadassah Committees
1998– 2001: Deputy head of the Junior Doctors’ Union at Hadassah
2005 – present: Residency committee
2005 - present: Infection control committee
2007 - present: Representative in the Healthcare Risk Management Program
2009 - present: Hadassah strategic committees: Strategic committee for Basic research, Strategic committee for Translational research and Strategic committee for Education in Medical fields.
External Committees
2006 - present: Kfar Shaul Institutional Helsinki Committee
Memberships
§ Israeli Society of General Critical Care Society of Critical Care Medicine
§ European Society of Intensive Care Medicine
§ Israel Society for Research, Prevention & Treatment of Atherosclerosis
Other activities
Treasurer, Israel Society of General Intensive Care
Awards
1985: Hebrew University Award for Excellence.
1996: The Joseph Shmerler Award for Excellence as a resident, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Faculty of Medicine.
2005: Excellence in teaching, Hebrew University
Research Grants
1997-1998: The Joint Research Fund of the Hebrew University and Hadassah, Shaare Zedek, Bikur Holim, Kaplan, ”Genotypic and Phenotypic analysis of Cytochrome P450 mutations in the Israeli population”. Dr Sigal Sviri, USD 10,000.
2008: Yeshaya Horowitz Association Fund: "Leptin: a therapeutic option for treating catabolic states and malnutrition in critically ill patients." Prof Eliot Beeri, Dr Sigal Sviri and Dr Yosefa Avraham. USD 70,000.
Supervision of Master's degree students
2006: AF, Public Health: "Bio-psychosocial factors in discharging ventilated patients from a tertiary hospital".
2007: MK, Nursing: "Legal guardian attitudes toward decision making regarding non life-saving invasive procedures for their mechanically ventilated relatives".
Supervision of MD students' dissertations:
2006-present: LS: The role of peripheral vascular resistance in blood pressure variability of Familial Dysautonomia patients. Co-supervisors: Prof Hanna Mayan, Prof David Linton.
2008-2010: ZN: Leptin levels during acute illness and catabolic states. Co-supervisors: Prof Elliot Beeri, Dr Yosefa Avraham.
2009-present: TK: A multicenter, randomized, double blind, placebo controlled trial to investigate the efficacy and safety of the Homeopathic Remedy Kalium Bichromicum (potassium dichromate) to decrease viscosity and amount of sputum as well as time to extubation, in intubated mechanically ventilated ICU patients. Co-Supervisors: Dr Moshe Hersch, Dr Menachem Auberbaum, Shaare Zedek Medical Center.
Judge, Master's degree dissertations
2007: SA, Nursing: Assessment of the reliability and validity of the "comfort scale" for adult intensive care patients.
2008: YG, Nursing: VO2 evaluation as a parameter for sedation and analgesic assessment compared with conventional scales.
2008: FBY, Nursing: The relationship between Intensive Care Nurses' implementation of family centered care and their attitudes towards family presence during resuscitation.
2009: IG, Public health: Effect of an intervention on rate of central vascular catheter-related bloodstream infection, in Intensive Care Units at Hadassah Medical Center.
2009: LE, Nursing: The needs of family members of complex patients hospitalized in the medical wards.
Publications
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