Ein-Karem, Jerusalem

Born, Haifa, Israel.

Marital status: Married, three children.

1968-1969  Internship, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem,

Israel.

Military Service, Israel Defense Forces; regimental and divisional  physician.

Present rank: Major in the Medical Corps.

M.D. degree, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School,  Jerusalem.

Doctoral thesis: "The surface visual evoked response of the cat striate cortex to monocular and binocular photic stimulations after severance of the optic tract and the corpus callosum".

Israeli Medical Licensure: 8393.

The Marta Hoffman prize,  awarded by the Medical School for Outstanding M.D. Thesis.

The Professor L. Halperin Prize, awarded by the Medical School for Outstanding Teacher.

Residency: Department of Surgery, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.

Israeli Board of Surgery:

1976 Examination Part I.

1979 Examination Part II.

Israeli Board Certification: General Surgery (No. 6470).

VQE Examination

ECFMG No. 107-693-4.

Federal Licensing Examination:

Active Kentucky Medical Licensure 22154.

Active Iowa State Medical License No. 52242.

Visiting Scientist at the Weitzman Institute of Science,

Department of cell biology, Rehovot, Israel.

Research project: Dynamics of thoracic duct lymphocytes in recruiting mice: studies of the capacity of thoracic duct lymphocytes to prolong survival of skin graft and heart transplant.

Supervisor: Prof. I.R. Cohen, The Weitzman Institute.

Academic Appointments

Instructor in Surgery, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.

Lecturer in Surgery, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.

1981 Senior Lecturer in Surgery, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.

Sept. 1980   Research Fellow

June 1981   Shriners Burns Institute Cincinnati, Ohio.

July 1982     Vascular Surgery Fellow

June 1983     Division of Vascular Surgery Department of Surgery. University of Cincinnati Medical School. Cincinnati, Ohio.

Permanent Chief Physician, Department of Surgery  B and Transplantation Unit, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.

Associate Professor in Surgery, Hebrew University – Hadassah  Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.

1985-1987   Permanent Chief Physician, Department of Vascular Surgery and Transplantation Unit, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.

1987 – 1988   Clinical Transplantation and Vascular Fellow, Division of Vascular and Transplantation Surgery. Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

1988 – 1989   Clinical Vascular Fellow, Division of Vascular Surgery University of  Iowa hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa.

1998   Julius H. Jacobson II Professor of  Vascular Surgery.

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