Department of Medicine

Hadassah University Hospital

Ein-Karem, Jerusalem

E-mail: samjack@shani.net

Born in 1965, Nazareth, Israel

1994 - Received MD Certificate from the Hebrew University – School Medicine, Jerusalem

1997 - Completed residency in Internal Medicine, at the Division of Internal Medicine, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.

2000 - Completed fellowship in pulmonary medicine at the Institute of Pulmonology, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.

2001 – 2006  Senior physician, Institute of Pulmonology, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.

Since 10/2006  An investigator in the lung cellular and molecular biology laboratory, Intitute of Pulmonology.

Clinical & Research Interests:

1) Graded cardiopulmonary exercise testing

2) Basic science research in small airway biology and transplant immunology

Some Recent Publications:

Nusair S, Or R, Junadi S, Amir G, Breuer R. Simultaneous donor marrow cell transplantation with reduced intensity conditioning prevents tracheal allograft obliteration in a bronchiolitis obliterans murine model. Chest 2005; 128:4024-9.

Nusair S, Breuer R, Shapira MY, Berkman N, Or R. Decreased incidence of pulmonary complications following non-myeloablative stem cell transplant. Eur Respir J 2004;23:440-5.

Nusair S, Breuer R, Amir G, Berkman N. Closed pleural needle biopsy: predicting diagnostic yield by examining pleural fluid parameters.  Respir Med 2002;96:890-4. 

Nusair S, Eid A, Bardach E, Berkman N. Resolving hepatopulmonary syndrome after liver transplantation documented with non-invasive cardiopulmonary exercise testing. Int J Cardiol 2005;102:533-5.   

Nusair S, Salameh-Giryes S, Springer C, Izhar U. Congenital bronchial cyst with recurrent sub-massive hemoptysis. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003; 125:972-3. 

Nusair S, Kramer MR, Berkman N. Pleural effusion with splenic rupture as manifestations of recurrence of sarcoidosis following prolonged remission. Respiration  2003;70:114-7. 

Gotsman I, Goral A, Nusair S. Secondary spontaneous pneumothorax in a patient with pulmonary rheumatoid nodules during treatment with methotrexate. Rheumatology (Oxford) 2001;40:350-1.