Prof. Yaakov Naparstek is  Chairman of Medicine at Hadassah University Hospital and Professor of Medicine at the Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Medicine.

Prof. Naparstek is a graduate of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical School in Jerusalem, Israel.

He is Board certified in Internal Medicine, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology and Allergy. Prof. Naparstek has been a research fellow and a visiting Professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Tuft's University, Boston, The National Institute of Health, Bethesda and Stanford University, Stanford. He serves as the Director of the Hadassah Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology Center.

Prof. Naparstek is the incumbent of the Leifferman Chair in Rheumatology.

His main research interests are in the field of autoimmunity, SLE and autoimmune arthritis. In recent years his research group focused on the identification of the target antigens in SLE and in autoimmune arthritis and in the attempts to develop antigen-specific therapeutic modalities to those diseases.

Prof. Naparstek is the recipient of national and international awards, and the author of about 100 publications and chapters in books as well as many patents in the field of autoimmune inflammatory diseases.

For List of Publications

see PubMed