Senior Research Associates

Dr. Aaron Cohen, M.D.

Dr. Robert Hammerman-Rozenberg, M.D

Dr. Jeremy M Jacobs, M.D

Dr. Daniel Azoulai, M.D

Research Associates

Dr. Michael Goldin, M.D

Dr. Sophia Zlatkin, M.D

Dr. Racel Hananashvili, M.D

INTRODUCTION

Department of Rehabilitation

A. The Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation serves both Hadassah-University Hospitals, providing care to patients suffering from neurological, orthopedic, respiratory and oncologic disease as well as burns and pain syndromes. In addition to in-patients, the department has a Day Care Unit and assorted specialized out-patient clinics (Post Polio, Prosthetics and Orthotics, Urology and Sexual Dysfunction and Chronic Pain).

The division includes a neurophysiological unit, which carries out electrodiagnostic investigations in children and adults and uses Botox injection.

The Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation is part of The Neurological-Neurosurgical Track in the Faculty of Medicine at Hebrew University and provides teaching to fifth-year medical students during their curriculum in neurology and orthopedics as well as students of the School of Occupational Therapy. Members of the department are also actively involved in the absorption and teaching of new immigrant physicians.

Staff members are involved in community activities within the National Insurance Institute and the Ministries of Defense and Health.

RESEARCH AREAS

§          Chronic Pain,(Tsenter, Schwartz, Sajiin)

§          Multiple trauma, (Meiner, Shochina, Schwartz, Tsenter)

§          CVA (Shochina, Schwartz, Sajiin)

§          Locomotor Treatment (Shochina, Meiner, Schwartz)

§          Biological Markers (Shochina)

§          Head Injury (Tsenter)

§          Alzheimer Disease (Meiner)

INTRODUCTION

Department of Geriatrics

B. The main research project of the Department of Geriatrics and Rehabilitation is the Jerusalem Longitudinal Cohort Study (JLCS), which is a comprehensive longitudinal analysis of the aging population of West Jerusalem residents. Professor Jochanan Stessman established the Study in 1991, and continues to be responsible for its maintenance and future planning. A representative cohort of subjects, all born between 1920-1921 and thus aged 70-71 years old at baseline, have been systematically followed up. At present the cohort, now aged 85-86 years old, is undergoing the third phase of data collection. Few such studies exist in the world, and in Israel this was and still remains the only one of its kind. The demographic makeup of the population in Jerusalem is unique, reflecting in its heterogeneity the varied social, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds of immigrants who arrived from various countries, and represents a slowly disappearing window of opportunity to researchers.

The geriatric and gerontological aims of the JLCS include comprehensive data collection enabling a multifaceted understanding of social, cultural, functional, medical and behavioral aspects of the aging population. Among the primary goals of the JLCS have been the identification and clarification of patterns of aging, the analysis of the interaction of different health domains, and the isolation of those elements of lifestyle, health factors, biological and disease states which are significant in the aging population as harbingers of morbidity and mortality. Furthermore, the research efforts have focused on characterizing strategies for successful ageing and its associated factors.

RESEARCH AREAS