ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
- 1974-1981: M.D., Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING / INTERNSHIPS AND RESIDENCIES
- 1981-1982: Internship, Assaf Haroffe Hospital and Hadassah Hospital, Jerusalem
- 1982-1983: Family physician, 18 months, as part of the Medical School project.
- 1983-1987: Residency, Department of Internal Medicine, Hadassah Mount Scopus Hebrew University Medical School, Jerusalem.
- 1987: Six months laboratory work on factors influencing duration of decisive period of antibiotic prophylaxis in experimental dermal infection model in guinea-pigs.
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
- 1988-1989: Clinical Fellowship, Department of Microbiology Infectious Disease Unit, Hadassah Medical Center
- 1989-1990: Clinical Fellow, Division of Infectious Diseases, Beth Israel Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
- 1990-1991: Research Fellow, Division of Infectious Diseases, Beth Israel Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
- 1986: Instructor in Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Hadassah Mt. Scopus University Hospital
- 1988: Instructor in Medicine, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Hadassah University Hospital
- 1989-1990: Clinical Fellow in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston
- 1990-1991: Research Fellow in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston
- 1992-1996: Lecturer in Clinical Microbiology. Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Hadassah University Hospital
- 1996-2005: Senior Lecturer in Clinical Microbiology. Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Hadassah University Hospital
- 2005: Associate Professor in Clinical Microbiology. Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Hadassah University Hospital
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT
- 2005: Chairman, Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Hadassah University Hospital
- 1991-2005: Attending physician in Infectious Disease. Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Hadassah University Hospital
- 1989-1991: Clinical and research fellow, Beth Israel, Brigham and Women’s Hospitals and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
- 1988-1989: Fellow, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Hadassah University Hospital,Jerusalem.
- 1983-1988: Resident, Department of Medicine Hadassah Mount Scopus, Jerusalem.
- 1981-1983: Physician, Kupat Cholim Clinic. Jerusalem.
SCIENTIFIC GRANT REVIEWS AND JOURNAL REVIEWS
Reviewer of grants for the following
- The Israel Academy of Sciences.
- Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Health, Israel.
- Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
- Reviewer for grants of the German Israeli Foundation (GIF)
Reviewer of manuscripts for the following journal
- Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Molecular Microbiology
- Israel Medical Association Journal