Group of British doctors call for a boycott of the Israel Medical Association
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Who calls? Who calls, calls N. L. Cohen from North-West London.
Some people may consider it the height of gall … but I was one doctor
who made the call. I was called by the appalling plight of the Palestinian
people. The horrific oppression of the Palestinians at the hands of the
freedom loving democracies of Israel, the US and the EU called me like a
siren song out of the black smog of war, out of the bleak war on terror.
Doctors are powerful moral and ethical representatives of their
country and community. By seeking to divert world attention from the human
rights abuses in the occupied territories, the Israeli Medical Association
(IMA) has shamed the profession. All appeals to conscience are failing:
naturally, I made the call. I am one of the original 130 doctors who
called for the expulsion of the IMA from the WMA (World Medical
Association).
As a non-Jew, I was privileged to study as a medical student in
Israel many years ago – and I write from this calling, perspective and
experience. My memories are vivid still: I slept on the beach by the Sea
of Galilee, floated in the Dead Sea and snorkelled in the Red Sea. I was
shocked by the vitriol of some young Jewish medical students and horrified
by their virulent hatred towards the Palestinian Arabs. I stayed on a
kibbutz on the Lebanese border near Qiryat Shemona, I climbed Masada,
visited Nazareth, Bethlehem and the holy places of Jerusalem. I took
advantage of the peace with Egypt brokered by Jimmy Carter at Camp David
in 1978 and travelled through Gaza and on overland via Port Said to Cairo.
In 1980, I was impressed by the State of Israel and its astonishing
achievements and had high hope of a peaceful future for all in the Middle
East. Sadly, in the last quarter century, Israel has determinedly taken
the wrong road to peace and failed at every step to act in good faith
toward international law, international convention and the Palestinians. I
now believe that the Zionist project has been a terrible mistake that
threatens us all.
In the final paragraph to his book, ‘Palestine: peace not apartheid’,
Jimmy Carter wrote,
“It will be a tragedy – for the Israelis, the Palestinians, and the
world – if peace is rejected and a system of oppression, apartheid, and
sustained violence is permitted to prevail.”
I call on Israeli doctors to act: the Israeli Medical Association has
an important responsibility to help avert such a tragedy.
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The root cause of most of the breaches of medical ethics and the
right to health in the Occupied Palestinian Territories is the occupation.
Some people think that one should struggle against the human rights
violations alone, while others think that one should rather struggle
against its root cause: the occupation. PHR Israel believes that it is our
role to do both: struggle for the end of occupation while at the same time
- and for as long as Israel is the occupying power - struggle for the
fullfilment, defence and respect of human rights, and the right to health
in particular. 40 years of occupation and violence, should have been more
then enought for Israelis to understand that there is - and never was - an
enlightened occupation; that there is and never will be a chance for true
peace without justice. We invite all Israeli doctors and medical
professionals to join us in solidarity with our Palestinian colleagues.
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executive director, PHR-Israel
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None of the responses you have published concerning the call for a
boycott of the Israeli Medical Association (IMA) comes anywhere near to a
rebutal of the reasons cited for that call. It might, just conceivably, be
argued that all the evidence of unethical behaviour comes from biassed
sources but even if that were to be so, it would not alter the truth of
those facts. If there is another side to be presented then it remains
unpresented in your correspondence, but crucially, even if some sort of
excuse should be advanced, whatever it might be, this could not justify
the failure of the IMA and the World Medical Association to accept their
own ethical obligations: such responsibilities are shared by all national
medical associations including the British Medical Association.
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For Dr Bradley to dismiss as “political agenda and bias” the mass of independent documentation supporting our charge of systematic and unchallenged violations of medical ethics in the Occupied Palestinian Territories is hardly in the spirit of evidence-based medicine. However, I will restrict my challenge to just one point, which is his claim that Palestinian suicide bombers hide in ambulances. This assertion- whether regarding suicide bombers or, more typically, armaments or explosives- is part of the mantra of arguments regularly made by correspondents at bmj.com in defence of Israeli behaviour towards medical facilities and personnel.
One such group who went to the trouble to examine the evidence was the Jewish American Medical Project. In 2004 Professor Alan Meyers of that group (since re-named) sent me their findings, which were of one documented incident only – in 2002 an explosive belt was found in an ambulance transporting a Palestinian child needing care. They noted that even this was a contested incident (1). They could find no evidence for any other such Geneva Convention transgressions, and indeed cited a broadranging review in the Jerusalem Post (not a newspaper customarily friendly to the Palestinian cause) which concluded similarly. (2)
Ironically, there were a number of reports in 2005 about the use by the Israeli Army of ambulances to move troops and weapons into operations against Palestine, including interviews with several reserve soldiers whose faces were blacked out to protect their identity. In one report Dr Rafi Waldman of Doctors for Human Rights was quoted as expressing his unease at this practice (3). One such account long since in the public domain (and undenied) was of the use of an ambulance to covertly transport Israeli soldiers in the operation that led to the capture of the political leader, Marwan Barghouti.
In a widely publicised event in October 2004, Israeli authorities showed footage of what they alleged were Palestinian militants loading a rocket launcher onto a UN ambulance. The UN responded with robust denials, eventually obliging the authorities to concede that the ambulance had been loading stretchers.
On several occasions I have challenged UK doctors who have made the same claim as Dr Bradley in the BMJ, asking them to cite their references. One or two responded, quoting the website of the Israeli Foreign Ministry – scarcely an independent source! So, BMJ readers can choose: on the one hand we have the Israeli Foreign Ministry, on the other international and regional human rights organisations.
As our collective letter (with UK medical signatories now near 150) makes clear, the Israeli Medical Association (IMA) has maintained a studied silence on the regular attacks on clearly marked Palestinian Red Crescent ambulances (hundreds of cases), and the unwarranted delays at army checkpoints, regardless of the nearness to death of the patients inside or of security conditions in the area (thousands of cases of such delay). Principled protest has been left to others, like the Israeli physicians of Physicians for Human Rights- whose letters to the IMA are not even answered- or the Red Cross (4) (5).
(1) JVPHealthand HumanRightsProject@googlegroups.com
(2) Derfner L. Bad medicine, bad war. Jerusalem Post, 8 Nov 2002, p6
(3) The Australian News, 30 March 2005.
(4) Phr.org.il
(5) International Committee of Red Cross. ICRC deplores increasing number of civilian casualties and lack of respect for medical mission. Press Release 06/93. 12 August 2006.
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This letter is written by the board of Physicians for Human Rights
Israel (PHR-Israel) as a response to the discussion of the role of the
Israeli Medical Association (IMA) regarding the occupation and Israel’s
serious violations of human rights in general and of the right health in
particular. Since PHR-Israel has not despaired of dialogue, we cannot
support a boycott, but rather wish to use this opportunity to publicly
address the World Medical Association (WMA) with a more basic question:
Does the WMA and the IMA (or any other national medical association) take
their role as leaders of the medical community seriously and not merely as
trade unions? If so, they must also take the principles of medical ethics
seriously. PHR-Israel believes that to be the inter/national medical
leadership is a serious duty, and thus we have high expectations of it.
This duty must be kept even in a society – like our own – who functions
under extreme anxiety, in a reality of constant threat of violence and
attacks on its civilians.
We therefore expect any national medical association to defend the
right of everyone to life and health, and thus:
When receiving evidence of unethical conduct of doctors, we would
expect them to speak in a clear voice and take action and not suffice in
waiting for more conclusive evidence to be collected by others.
When faced with 40 years of occupation where Israelis enjoy one of
the best medical systems in the world, while Palestinians can hardly
access their de-developed system, we would expect them to fight not for
humanitarian gestures, but for equality and access to Israeli healthcare
as part of Israeli responsibility as an occupier. Particularly for medical
services not available in Palestine.
When faced with shooting at ambulances, we would expect them to stand
fast by their colleagues and not look for justifications (“ambulances
carry arms”).
When faced with a system of more than 500 checkpoints and barriers
obstructing movement of patients and medical teams, we would expect them
to rebuke the system and not fight over the access of one patient, who was
lucky enough to reach the awareness of the media.
When faced with denial of infrastructure and water as method of
moving people from their lands, we would expect them to say: Enough, water
is a right and cannot be conditioned on obedience to unlawful policy.
When infrastructure is destroyed during armed conflict, we would
expect them to press their governments to rehabilitate it immediately.
When extreme poverty results from the deliberate destruction of the
economic infrastructure, we would expect them to make their stand clear as
to the dire results on Palestinians’ health and demand the end of this
policy.
When faced with a humanitarian crisis, we would expect them to lead a
struggle for changing the policy that causes it, at least regarding the
health issues.
Presenting the positive actions of members of the Israeli medical
community as if they (IMA) had initiated them, is unfair conduct.
Presenting the granting of movement permits by the security system for
patients to reach medical centers as a positive move, is to willfully
misunderstand that the mere need for a permit is the problem. Even in
times of conflicts, security arrangements must and can be provided to
allow rapid passage of patients and medical teams.
The IMA’s uncompromising position for ethical conduct in the case of
a Palestinian patient under threat of eviction from hospital is a light in
a dark place and a good example of what we would expect from a national
medical association.
In our region, as in others, conflict and violence endanger the lives
of both peoples. This is a serious issue that demands a constant struggle.
Silence is a luxury medical associations cannot afford.
All these expectations are grounded in numerous ethical guidelines,
some of which are on the WMA website. We take them seriously. Do the WMA,
IMA and other national medical associations do the same?
Competing interests:
The authors are the board of PHR Israel, and its executive director. The board are also members of the Israeli medical community.
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The previous few responses add distortion to half-truth, creating a
strange parallel reality which no-one taking a balanced and contextual
view of the situation would recognise. The organisations who provided the
facts referred to by respondents have a solid history of one-sidedness,
political agenda and bias. They are far from being the reputable,
objective agencies as claimed. Examples of this are simply too numerous to
start listing in this forum but, just as a start, is there any mention at
all by any of these fine bodies of the atrocities currently being
perpetrated within Gaza amongst Palestinians? If not, the question has to
be why not. Just for the record, the use of ambulances as a means of
crossing borders by suicide bombers is well documented. Any mention of
this salient issue in the reports behind this scurrilous and purely
political demand for boycott? Of course if one chooses to ignore all such
relevant documention by the Israeli authorities then problems such as this
can be happily ignored, and voila, the Israeli demon starts to emerge half
baked.
I would urge the BMA to ignore this tiny but vocal group, some of whom may
be well-intentioned but misinformed, others of whom are simply choosing to
misuse their noble profession and position as a political axe.
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I have lived in Israel and identify with its people.
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Editor
The violation of Medical Ethics & human rights is a real concern.
The evidence of this happening in the occupied Palestine is beyond doubt.
The facts established by recognised humanitarian agencies (the UN, Amnesty
International, Human Rights Watch, the Red Cross and so on) are
indisputable[1] The siege that was put in place by 29 nations, including
Israel, in March 2007 was another cruel and unlawful[2]. Barbara
Swiriski (an Israeli doctor)documented the evidence of systematic
discrimination against Palestinians in Israel[3]
None would dispute that members of the medical profession are
responsible for safegaurding medical ethics & patients' rights.
None can find a reason for the Israeli Medical Association (IMA) to
justify its silence in relation to the sufferings of the Palestinians
under the Israeli occupation. Without ethics the word doctor is
meaningless. Without respect to human rights, life would be meaningless.
Political reasons do not justify violation of human rights and
medical ethics.
Medical ethics should not be limited to Academic Interest but to be the
standards that members of the Medical profession adhere to. If Medical
Ethics mean nothing to the Israeli Medical Association (IMA), It should
mean a lot to BMA, WMA, WPA, AEP,..and all members of the medical
profession. Hope I am not mistaken.
References:
1. Burns-Cox, C: The Factual Evidence Against The Israeli Medical
Association. www.bmj.com/cgi. accessed on 8 May 2007
2. Halpin, D S:Looking from the side. www.bmj.com/cgi. accessed on 8 May
2007
3. Swiriki,B ; kanaaneh,H & Avgar,A: Healtcare in Israel. The Israel
Equality Monitor. Issue(9)November,1998
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I'd like to provide some background information on the call by 130
(now nearly 140) UK doctors for a boycott of the Israeli Medical
Association (IMA), published in the Guardian of 21 April and the subject
of a news item by Owen Dyer in the BMJ of 29 April.
Owen Dyer quotes from a recent response from the IMA to the arguments
for boycott made recently by the 18 leading Palestinian organisations in
the health field we alluded to in our letter. I'm afraid the IMA response
is empty rhetoric written for public relations purposes. A world away from
these words are the decisions the IMA has taken with its eyes open over
many years: it is on this account that the Israeli Physicians for Human
Rights (PHRI), a principled and committed group,labelled the IMA in the
Lancet as an arm of the Israeli establishment whose role it was to obscure
the health-related realities of Israeli occupation. IMA President Blachar
has taken this duty with him to the World Medical Association: his
presence there-as Chair of Council no less-ensures that the WMA does
nothing. True to form, I note that the WMA Secretary General has declined
to comment on our letter-yet this is a matter that goes to the heart of
their mandate as the world's official watchdog on medical ethics.
The charges against the IMA are broadly in 2 categories.
(1)TORTURE
Torture has been an instrument of stste policy in Israel for many
years, and continues to this day. In 1996 Amnesty International concluded
that Israeli doctors working with the security services "form part of a
system in which detainees are tortured,ill-treated and humiliated in ways
that place prison medical practice in conflict with medical ethics".
Amnesty, and other organisations who approached the IMA to urge them to
take a stand have been consistently rebuffed. This too has been my
experience when I published articles in mainstream medical journals-
notable the BMJ and the Lancet. In response to one of these, published in
the Lancet, IMA President Blachar actually justified the use of “ moderate
physical pressure”, the euphemism in Israel for torture: this does not
happen every day in the pages of an international medical journal!
The moral and strategic line taken on torture by the IMA was well
captured by a remark made by Professor Eran Dolev, then IMA Head of Ethics
(yes, Ethics!) in an interview in 1999 with a visiting delegation from the
Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, London (for whom I
was principal psychiatrist for 9 years). Prof Dolev stated that that “a
couple of broken fingers” during the interrogation of Palestinians was
worthwhile for the information it might garner. When I published this in
the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, verified by those present at
the interview, Dr Blachar defended Prof Dolev.
2 years earlier I had written to the IMA after a human rights
conference in Gaza, when an Israeli physician had told me that a medical
colleague had confessed to her that he had removed the intravenous drip
from the arm of a seriously ill Palestinian prisoner, and told the man
that if he wanted to live, he should co-operate with his interrogators. I
asked the IMA to investigate but they never replied, even after reminders.
(2) VIOLATIONS OF FOURTH GENEVA CONVENTION RELATING TO RIGHTS OF
CIVILIAN POPULATIONS/HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AND SERVICES
When challenged in the BMJ or Lancet, the IMA continues to maintain
that there are no medical ethical concerns arising out of the conduct of
the Israeli army towards the Palestinian general population? After my BMJ
review of 16 Oct 2004 on the impact on health and health services, the IMA
President posted up a rapid response at bmj.com on 15 December thus: “ the
lies and hatred he spews are reminiscent of some of the worst forms of
anti-semitism ever espoused”.I suggest that readers look at the whole text
of his response. He directs open contempt towards the mass of
documentation in the public domain- from distinguished international
agencies like Amnesty International (500 reports since 2000 on
Israel/Palestine), Human Rights Watch, the Red Cross, UN Commission on
Human Rights, Medecins Sans Frontieres, and regional ones like PHRI and
B’Tselem in Israel, and Health, Development, Information, and Policy
Institute in the Occupied West Bank. Here too we see the smear of anti-
semitism, and indeed an indirect allusion to the Nazi period, used to
silence legitimate criticism based on exhaustive and authoritative
documentation.
Owen Dyer quotes the IMA as saying that they "were struck by the
enormity of the lies and twisted assertions" we have made. An article in
the Israeli newspaper Jerusalem Post of 2 days ago (by BMJ Israel
correspondent Judy Siegel-Itzkovich) quotes President Blachar as saying
that "this is another in the series of fantasies in which Mr Derek
Summerfield lives". Is Amnesty International reporting fantasies?
Yet the Israeli Defence force (IDF) operates in a climate of near
total impunity, with disproportionate force directed implacably towards
the civilian population: over 4000 shot dead in the last 6 1/2 years,
including around 850 children. These are truly shocking numbers, and ever
growing. The testimonies of the ‘Breaking the Silence’ group of ex-
soldiers attest to shoot-to-kill policies that give the lie to official
mantras about minimising the risk to civilians. A veritable mass of
documentation now confirms systematic and ongoing violations of the
medical ethical sections of the Fourth Geneva Convention. There have been
many deaths of seriously ill Palestinians, and of newborn infants, at army
checkpoints because they were denied access to hospital. Palestinian
health professionals have been shot dead or wounded on duty. Ambulance
drivers on duty are interrogated, searched, threatened, humiliated and
assaulted. Wounded men have been taken from ambulances at checkpoints and
sent directly to prison, and on other occasions Israeli soldiers have
commandeered ambulances as transport. On many occasions ambulances of the
Palestinian Red Crescent society have been hit by IDF gunfire. On the 1st
April 2004 the IDF fired missiles at Bethlehem psychiatric hospital, which
had 250 patients and 75 staff present at the time. There was extensive
damage and staff were arrested. Clearly identified medical clinics,
including those run by the aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres, have been
hit by gunfire. The International Committee of the Red Cross and other aid
agencies have at times been forced to limit their work in the West Bank
because of threats to staff and attacks on vehicles by the IDF. There has
been wilful hampering of the distribution of food aid, on which half a
million people are now dependent. A study by Johns Hopkins and Al Quds
Universities found that 20% of Palestinian children under 5 years old were
anaemic and 22% malnourished. The IDF has also wilfully destroyed water
supplies, electric power and other elements of the public health
infrastructure. The continued building of the apartheid wall and fence
has hugely damaged the coherence of the Palestinian health system.
Patients died in Gaza hospitals as a direct consequence of Israeli
blockade of goods (including medical supplies) and of funds to pay public
sector workers. - for example, because dialysis fluids or chemotherapeutic
agents had run out. The Israeli doctors of Physicians for Human Rights
Israel (PHRI) published a report on Gaza in late 2006- they quoted Jan
Egeland, the UN Under Secretary-General for humanitarian Affairs as saying
“there is no hope” in Gaza. Women and children present with palpable
malnutrition. Barely supplied hospitals have been overwhelmed by
casualties, many with terrible wounds, from Israeli bombing (nearly 300
dead, including 66 children, since June 2006- and poorly reported), and
their morgues fill up with charcoaled and shredded bodies. There were
interruptions of power supplies due to Israeli bombing and hospitals had
to save their generators for operating theatres and emergency rooms only.
Patients with medical problems for which there was no treatment in Gaza
were “condemned to a slow death” (as the PHRI report put it) because they
were blocked from seeking treatment in Egypt or Israel. Even people who
were not initially critically ill died from blood loss after Israeli
bombing because the movement of ambulances and medical staff required
permission from the IDF- frequently denied or delayed.
It has been evident for several years that Palestinian medical staff
on duty could not count on the immunity afforded them by the Fourth Geneva
Convention. They too are targets.11 people were killed on June 13 2006
when 2 missiles were delivered from the air at a car. This included 2
paramedics who ran from a nearly medical facility to attend to the victims
of the first missile and were killed by the second, which appears to have
been fired despite a clear view of the scene. The Red Cross protested at a
recent instance, on November 5, when 2 paramedics wearing “clearly marked
fluorescent jackets” were shot dead when they got out of an ambulance
(with siren and flashing lights) to evacuate wounded civilians.
Similar and persistent violations of the Fourth Geneva Convention
have been widely reported following Israel’s attack and destruction of a
neighbouring sovereign state, Lebanon, with over 1300 civilians murdered.
Reportedly as many as one million cluster bombs, which are essentially
anti-personnel devices aimed at civilians, were seeded in defiance of the
Geneva Convention, as the UN has pointed out. Israel has now admitted that
phosphorus containing weapons were used, also illegal against civilians,
as they were in their 1982 invasion of Lebanon (the journalist Robert Fisk
remembers seeing the bodies of 2 children re-igniting when taken out of
the mortuary). Furthermore, the Secretary of the European Committee on
Radiation Risk states that samples taken from blast sites suggest that
uranium- based bombs may have been used as well. Hospitals were hit and UK
newspapers carried photographs of a wrecked ambulance, with the point of
entry of the missile at the very centre of the large red cross painted on
the roof. I note a letter in the Lancet of September 2 2006 in which a
physician in the Family Medicine Programme, American University of Beirut,
describes his attempts to recruit colleagues to help staff a hospital
several kilometres away. He reports that volunteers did not want to go in
an ambulance “because such vehicles were targets”.
The IMA have been entirely and consistently silent about the medical
ethical aspects of such events, as PHRI confirms. Indeed Hadas Ziv,
current head of PHRI, tells me that the IMA no longer even replying to
their letters of concern: it sounds as if the IMA is boycotting PHRI!
Similar letters from PHRI to the WMA also go unanswered. What are they to
infer from this?
Our call for boycott focuses on the IMA specifically, but we could
further note that these grave matters have attracted very little
condemnation from the medical profession in Israel (PHRI apart), with
their academic bases in Israeli medical schools and research institutes.
Many of these doctors have international academic connections, and unlike
their Palestinian counterparts their movements are unhampered, their
respectability and probity unchallenged. Why is this? Indeed Israeli
medical campuses have maintained a studied silence about the tremendous
harm done over many years to the capacity of their Palestinian
counterparts to function normally: the restrictions, the prolonged
closures, the damage to property, the campus incursions by the Israeli
army, the arbitrary expulsions, the harrassment and shooting of students
on their way to lectures. Because of the building of the Wall (declared
illegal by the International Court of Justice in July 2004), which looms
over the campus of Al-Quds medical school in Jerusalem, final clinical
exams were disrupted and displaced because suitable patients could not
reach the medical school, and in 2005 twelve graduates from Gaza were
refused permits to attend the graduation ceremony.
It is hard to avoid the conclusion that with honourable exceptions
most doctors and medical academics are in active or passive collusion with
an aggressive colonisation, with the control and, increasingly, the frank
crushing of every sector of Palestinian civil society, and with a self-
justifying discourse that trades on a dehumanising contempt for
Palestinian as people in a different moral universe.
So what are we to do? Firstly, repeated efforts to reach out to the
IMA has been unavailing, as experience bears out unambiguously. Secondly,
the WMA have refused to challenge the IMA; or even to acknowledge the
problem. They seem unmoved by the mountain of material by Amnesty and
others- how can this be? Indeed in a telephone conversation with me 3
years ago WMA Secretary General Delon Human defended the IMA. Thirdly,
British doctors might expect some action from their own association, the
BMA, whose International Committee deal with ethical matters, but they
have hidden behind platitudes (“we believe in education”, as if the IMA
had not had a clear-cut strategy over many years). The BMA has
consistently declined to challenge the IMA record at the WMA and has
stressed its collegiate relationship with the IMA.
We do not lightly call for an academic boycott but things have surely
come to this. If not now, when? It was at a moment like this that calls
went out (and there was considerable opposition then too) for the academic
isolation of South Africa during the apartheid era. This rightly included
a boycott of the medical profession for collusion of a very similar nature
to what we see today in Israel. For instance, the Medical Association of
South Africa was for a time suspended from membership of the WMA. On
visits out there in recent years (I am South African born) I have heard it
said more than once that the boycott played a distinct role in bringing
the profession to its senses. As in South Africa, the Israeli medical
profession, and the establishment generally, is sensitive to opinion in
the Western world, not least from fellow doctors.
A boycott of the IMA (which is an institutional, not individual
boycott)in an extreme situation is a moral and ethical imperative when all
else has failed, for otherwise we are in effect turning away. It is not
contrary to “academic freedom”, as some assert, but in its very spirit.I
appeal for
colleagues to join us.
Derek Summerfield
derek.summerfield@googlemail.com
Competing interests:
None declared
Competing interests: No competing interests
Israeli Medical Association opposes suggested British boycott
May 21, 2007
In a letter published in The Guardian in April, a group of British doctors
called for a boycott of the Israeli Medical Association (IMA) and its
expulsion from the World Medical Association (WMA) for allegedly failing
to uphold international medical ethical standards in the Palestinian
territories.
We, the representatives of medicine in Israel, categorically deny these
accusations and wish to take a stand in support of the IMA and humane
medical treatment for all in Israel.
It is all too clear that Dr. Derek Summerfield is once again feeding his
own personal, systematic dislike of Israel and will persist in doing so
regardless of the truth.
As for Dr. David Halpin, if the best he can do is quote Amira Hass: Life
Under Israeli Occupation – published August 26, 2001 in The Independent,
at the height of the Intifida, we suggest he undertakes a more up-to-date
and thorough study of the situation, as described below.
Unfortunately, the other signatories were presumably unaware of the
reality of the situation. We would therefore like to clarify some facts
and provide an incomplete sampling of health activity aimed at helping the
Palestinian population: 2,346 Palestinian children with birth defects were
treated last year in Israeli hospitals (up from 1,604 in 2005), 29, 919
Palestinian patients were granted permits to undergo medical treatments in
hospitals in Israel (up from 24,076 in 2005), and 1,600 Palestinian
emergency patients were transferred by ambulance from the PA to hospitals
in Israel (up from 800 in 2005).
We would also like to reiterate what was expressed in a recent IMA letter:
The IMA is not, and has never been, the ‘executive arm of the Israeli
establishment.' It is an apolitical organization that, like every other
national medical organization, concerns itself with medical and health
issues and not the establishment or support of any sort of political
policy.
The IMA has continuously called for funds to be transferred [to the PA]
not in kind but in the form of food and medicine so that help could be
given where it is truly needed.
In addition to the above, hundreds or thousands of Palestinian patients
receive medical care in Israel each year, usually at a cost absorbed by
the Israeli government. As an example, in 2004, NIS 36, 645, 507
(approximately 8, 143, 446 USD at the time) of PA debts to Israeli
hospitals were offset. The IMA has intervened on occasions where a patient
was about to be evicted from an Israeli hospital for lack of funds. The
IMA has also intervened on many occasions of Palestinian patients,
physicians, and medical students who encountered difficulties at Israeli
checkpoints, including petitions to the High Court of Justice on certain
matters. Israeli doctors learn and work side by side with their Arab
colleagues, treating both Jewish and Arab patients, Israeli and
Palestinian. Sometimes these very same dedicated physicians meet their
death at the hands of terrorists, leaving their Palestinian patients to
wonder who will care for them.
The organization has, at several points in the past, attempted to meet
with its Palestinian counterparts in an effort to foster mutual
cooperation and better understanding, including the release of a joint
statement. Almost none of these meetings have taken place, because of
refusal on the Palestinian side.
In addition to the above, there are numerous collaborative health care
initiatives taking place at any time. The First International Congress on
Chronic Disorders in Children was attended in April by 300 Israeli and 100
Palestinian doctors and the First Middle East Symposium on Dental Medicine
represented a further expression of the relationship launched between the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Al-Quds University.
Under the Israeli program "Save a Child's Heart", doctors at Wolfson
Hospital repair congenital heart defects for children from the Palestinian
territories, Iraq, Jordan and Africa; more than 1,000 children, about half
from Gaza and the occupied West Bank, have been helped so far by the
program.
Teams at Bethlehem University and at Tel-Aviv University have worked
together to investigate the genetic causes of deafness. A new graduate
program will enable Palestinian students to pursue post-graduate research
in this field at Tel-Aviv University .
Jerusalem's Hadassah hospital has trained Palestinian physicians and
nurses in cancer treatments, and staff from this hospital and Palestinian
hospitals exchange ideas and information on an ongoing basis.
It saddens us greatly to see and hear of Palestinian civilians receiving
inadequate health care, including in Gaza, from which Israel unilaterally
withdrew in 2006. It saddens us that funds transferred to the Palestinian
leadership are often used for guns and bombs instead of for hospitals and
medicines. It saddens us that terrorists kill or maim our civilians,
kidnap our soldiers, rain missiles on Israeli cities, and then hide among
civilians and civilian structures such as hospitals. And it pains us that
terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians (including terrorists posing as ill
people in need of medical care) result in security measures that sometimes
cause hardship to innocent Palestinians. We do our best to help whenever
possible, despite these constraints, and have often called for a
separation of political and humane issues, so that no one suffers from the
current conflict.
The “facts” expressed in the letter of the Palestinian organizations
calling for a boycott of the IMA, are a far cry from reality. It is our
hope that your readers will form unbiased opinions and recognize the steps
that Israeli doctors are taking to improve the health and treatment of all
peoples, regardless of race or religion. Those who have preconceived
opinions will undoubtedly stick with them. But for those who want the
truth, we have attempted to present it. However, unlike our accusers, who
present nameless numbers of supporters, we are proud to be associated with
the Israeli Medical Association and willingly supply our details.
Sincerely,
Dr. Yoram Blachar, President, Israeli Medical Association
Prof. Shai Ashkenazi, Chairman, Scientific Council, IMA &
Director Pediatrics A, Schneider Children's Medical Center, Israel
Professor Shmuel C. Shapira MD MPH, Hadassah Deputy Director General
Director Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health
Dr. Jacob Yahav , Director, Kaplan Medical Center
Prof. Zvi Zemishlany, Director - Geha Mental Health Center
Meir Oren M.D., M.Sc., M.P.H Director – General, The Hillel - Yaffe
Medical Center
Zvi Stern m.d.Director Hadassah Medical Center- Mt. Scopus
Prof. Jacob Hart, Director (CEO), Loewenstein Hospital Rehabilitation
Center, Raanana, Israel
Dr. Orna Blondheim, Director, Haemak Medical Center, Afula
Dr. Raphi Pollack, Medical Director, Bikur Cholim Hospital, Jerusalem
SCHARF SHIMON M.D.,M.P.H., Director of the Barzilai Med.
Ctr.Ashkelon
Yehuda Baruch MD MHA, Director General, Abarbanel Mental Health
Center, Israel
Amos Etzioni MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Immunology
Director - Meyer Children's Hospital, Bat- Galim, Haifa
Nicky Liebermann M.D., Head – Community Medical Division, "Clalit"
Health Services, Israel
Prof. Ron Dagan, Director, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Unit
Soroka University Medical Center, Beer Sheva, Israel
Yehezkel Caine M.D., M.Sc. Director General, Herzog Hospital
Dr. Itzhak (Tzaki) Siev-Ner, Head of Orthopedic Rehabilitation, Sheba
Medical Center, Israel
Prof. David Branski, M.D, Chairman of Pediatrics, Hadassah University
Hospitals, Jerusalem
Amos Etzioni MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Immunology, Director -
Meyer Children's Hospital
PROF. HANOCH HOD MD, DIRECTOR ICCU SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER, ISRAEL
Ehud Raanani, MD, Head of Cardiac Surgery, Sheba Medical Center,
Israel
Dr.Zeev Feldman, Head of pediatric Neurology, Sheba Medical Center,
Israel
Prof. Aaron Lerner, Head Child Nutrition Unit, Carmel Hospital
Prof. Arie Lindner, Head, Dept. of Urology, Asaf Harofeh Medical
Center & Vice Chairman of the Scientific Council, IMA
Eliezer Shalev M.D, Associate Dean, Rappaport faculty of medicine
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Professor and Chairman, Department Of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Haemek
medical Center, Afula Israel
President, Israel Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Shaul Sofer,M.D., Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, Lubner Family
Chair in Child Health & Development, Ben-Gurion University of the
Negev
Yoseph A. Mekori M.D., Professor of Medicine, Dean, Sackler Faculty
of Medicine, Tel Aviv University
Henry Silver MBBS, BMedSci, DPM, FRANZCP Associate
Professor, Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel
Institute of Technology Deputy Director Sha'ar Menashe Mental Health
Centre, Israel
Prof. Bernard Belhassen, Director, Cardiac Electrophysiology
Laboratory, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Batya Kristal, MD, MHA, FASN, Assoc. Professor of Medicine, Head,
Department of Nephrology & Hypertension, Western Galilee Hospital
Kluger Yoram MD, FACS, Department of Surgery B, Rambam Medical
Center, Haifa, Israel
Prof. Gil Lugassy, Chairman, Israeli Hematology Association
Dr. Ohad Birk, Head, Genetics Institute, Soroka Medical Center,
Israel
Dr. Gerald M.Fraser MD,FRCP, Director of the Inflammatory Bowel
Disease Unit, Deputy-Director Department of Gastroenterology, Rabin
Medical Center
Prof Alexander Battler, MD, FACC, FESC, Director of Cardiology Rabin
Medical Center
Francis B Mimouni, MD, FAAP, FACN
Professor of Pediatrics, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel
Chief of Staff, the Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
President, Israeli Pediatric Association
Prof. Keren Gad MD, Head Dept. Cardiology, Tel-Aviv Medical Center
Incumbent –Chaim Sheba Chair of Cardiology
Santiago Richter, M.D., Head, Endourology Service, Meir Medical Center,
Kfar Sava, Israel
Professor Ami Schattner
Batia Yaffe M.D, Head Department of Hand Surgery and Microsurgery
Unit, Sheba Medical Center
Dr. Krimchansky Benzy. Head of the ICU for Head Trauma patients.
Loewenshtein Rehabilitation Center,. Raanana, Israel
Dr Modi Naftali, Poria Medical Center
Dr M S Monnickendam MD, Family Physician, Hadera, Israel
Yosef Uziel MD, MSc, Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Head- Ambulatory Day Unit, Medical Education Unit, Pediatric Rheumatology
Department of Pediatrics, Meir Medical Center, Kfar-Saba, Israel
Yehuda A. Schwarz, MD, Senior Deputy Director of Pulmonary Medicine
Dep., Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Ari Zimran, MD, Director, Gaucher Clinic, Shaare Zedek Medical Center
Ass. Professor of Medicine, Hebrew University and Haddassah School of
Medicine
Yehuda L. Danon M.D., Professor of Medicine, Schneider Childrens
Medical Center
Prof Ami Schattner
Judith Heyd MD, Head, Hematology Unit, Shaare Zedek Medical Center,
Jerusalem
Dr. Darwin Telias, Mental Health Center Beer-Sheva and "Matara"
Addicitions Treatment Center, Ben Gurion University
Ephraim Rimon, MD
Head Geriatric Department E, F, Harzfeld Medical Center, Gedera
Prof. Joel Sayfan, Head of Department of Surgery, Haemek Medical
Center
Pinchas Halpern, MD, Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, Tel
Aviv Medical Center, Israel
Dr. Meir Weisbrod, Director of the Neonatology/Prematurity
Department, Laniado Hospital, Netanya, Israel
Yehuda Limony MD MSc, Child Health Center-Kiriat Gat And Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev, Beer Sheva
Eran Leitersdorf, MD, Professor of Internal Medicine, Chair in
Molecular Genetics, Head, Department of Medicine B, Director, Center for
Research, Prevention and Treatment
of Atherosclerosis, Hadassah University Hospital
Dean D. Ad-El MD Head, Department of Plastic Surgery & Burns
Rabin Medical Center
Dr. Avi Cohen, Head, Neurosurgery Dept., Soroka Medical Center
Prof. Chaim Lotan, Director, Heart Institute, Chair in Cardiology,
Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center
Hadary Amram MD, Head, Trauma Unit ,”Ziv” Hospital, Safed
Pnina Green, M.D., Ph.D., The Laboratory for the Study of Fatty Acids
The Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University,
And Department of Internal Medicine B, Rabin Medical Center
Dr. Dror Soffer, Head, Trauma Unit, Tel Aviv Medical Center
Prof. Gideon Uretzky, M.D., Chairman, Dept. of Cardiothoracic
Surgery,
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center & Sackler School of Medicine, Tel
Aviv University,
Tel Aviv, Israel
David Pauzner M.D., Deputy Head, Obgyn Wing, Sourasky Medical Center
Dr. Yitzchak Halperin, Barzili Medical Center
Prof. Arie Herman, Head of Ob/Gyn, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center
Dr Shimoni Zvi, Head of Internal Med B Department and Infectious
Disease Unit, Laniado Hospital, Netanya
DR SASSON NAKAR
Dr Ezra Yehiel, Family Physician, Clalit Health Services, Afula
DR YAGEV YARON, OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE SPECIALIST, DIRECTOR OF MACCABI
OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE CLINIC IN THE NEGEV
Zalman Weintraub, MD. Neonatology Nahariya
Michael SOUDRY M.D., Professor and Chairman, Division of Orthopaedics
and Department of Orthopaedic Surgery A, Rambam Medical Center
Professor Eugene Libson, Hadassah Univ.Hospital, Hebrew University
School of Medicine
Dr. Roberto Michan, Pediatrician
Yaacov Jack Ashkenazi md head of adult internal medecine and
hematology day care shaare zedek medical center jerusalem
Dr. Ido Olsha, Head of Department of General Surgery, Yoseftal
Hospital – Eilat
Dr Suzy Ronen, Sharei Zedek Medical Center
Morris Mosseri, Cardiology Institute, Meir Medical Center, Kfar Saba
Dr. Doron Kopelman, Head, Surgery B, Haemek Medical Center
Aroeh Eden MD, Director of Research, Computing and Quality assurance.
Department of Anesthesia and CCM Carmel Medical Center
Professor Uri Seligsohn, Sheba Medical Center
Ofer Nativ MD., Prof. & Chairman Department of Urology, Bnai-Zion
Medical Center
Prof' Joseph Ribak, Tel Aviv University
Dr Moshe Hersch, MD, MSc, Director of ICU, Shaare Zedek Medical
Center, Jerusalem
Senior Lecturer, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Prof. Moshe Hod, Director, Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Helen
Schneider Hospital for Women, Rabin Medical Center
Boris Finkel, M.D.
Head of Psychogeriatric Ward
Head of Holocaust Residence
Lev HaSharon Mental Heath Center
Dr. Gal-Moscovici Anca, Nephrology and Hypertension Services
Bone Research Laboratory, Hadassah University, Jerusalem
Prof Avry Chagnac, MD, Rabin Medical Center- Hasharon Hospital
Prof. Z.H. Rappaport, Director, Dept. of Neurosurgery, Rabin Medical
Center
Professor Mauro Rathaus, Meir Medical Center, Israel
PROF. SHOENFELD YEHUDA, MD.FRCP, Head, Department of Medicine 'B' and
Center for Autoimmune Diseases, Sheba Medical Center
Vardiella Meiner, M.D.Dept of Human Genetics, Hadassah University
Hospital, Jerusalem
Prof. Daniel Benharroch, Head of Hematopathology Unit, Dept. of
Pathology,
Soroka Medical Center, Beer-Sheva.
Ofer Z. Shenfeld MD., Chairman of Urology, Shaare Zedek Medical
Center
Nathaniel Laor, Professor of Psychiatry, Behavioral Science and
Philosophy,
Tel Aviv University
Dr. Charach Gideon
Dr. Pesach Lichtenberg, Herzog Hospital, and the Hadassah Medical
School—Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Zohar Barzilay MD FCCM, Professor of Pediatrics, Sheba Medical Center
Prof. N. Gadoth Chairman Adult & Pediatric Neurology
- MA`AYNEI-HAYESHUA Medical Center, Israel
OZ YUVAL MD
Ob & Gyn specialist
Chief Ultrasound Unit Safed Hospital, Israel
DR ZEHAVA ALON, GENERAL PRACTITIONER, Israel
Gilutz Harel M.D, Director of Intensive Coronary Care Unit.
DR. VERA FRIED,- . Internal Medicine and Geriatrics
Geriatric Dep. Soroka University Hospital Beer Sheba
Assistant director, Cardiology Department, Ben-Gurion University, Faculty
of Health Sciences, Soroka University Medical Center
Michael Hoffman, MD
Deputy Chief Director
Department of Internal Medicine A, Tell Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel
Aviv, Israel
Prof. Haim Bibi MD, Head Pediatric Department, Carmel Medical Center,
Haifa
Shmuel Yurman MD, Head Neonatal Department & NICU Hillel Yaffe
Medical Center
Prof. Moshe Roffman, Head of Orthopaedic Depart., Carmel Medical
Center and Medical Faculty – Technion, Haifa
Amir Vardi MD, Director ECMO program
Department of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine SAFRA Children's Hospital
SHEBA Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer Affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of
Medicine, Tel-Aviv University ISRAEL
Ehud Melzer M.D, Head Department of Gastroenterology & Liver
Disease
Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, ISRAEL
Professor Eugene Libson MD.FRCR, Hadassah Medical Center
Prof. Meller, Director- National Unit of Orthopedic Oncology, Tel
Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Hillel Halkin MD, Professor of Medicine, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel
Aviv University
Prof. Shimon Meretyk, Head of Urology Dept., Rambam Medical Center,
Israel
Prof. Israel Potasman, Director, Infectious Dis., Bnai Zion Med.
Ctr., Haifa
Dr. Chanan Tauber, Former president of the Israel Orthopedic
Association
A. Mark Clarfield, MD, FRCPC, Head of Geriatrics, Soroka Hospital.
Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University.
Shai Brill M.D, Beit Rivka Geriatric Rehabilitation Hospital
Lawrence M. Loewenthal, MD Medical Consultant to Ophthalmologists in
Haifa, Poriyah, Israel
Moshe Hadani M.D. Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery
Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
Dr Ilan Treves, Head, Open Ward B, Shalvata Mental Health Center,
Israel
Prof Yuval Yaron, Head of Prenatal Genetic Diagnosis Unit, Tel Aviv
Sourasky Medical Center
Dr. Ido Olsha, Head of Department of General Surgery, Yoseftal
Hospital – Eilat
Dr. Moshe Kostiner m.d specialists clinic manager, Israel
Joseph Itskovitz-Eldor, MD DSc,Director, Department of Obstetrics and
Gynecology, Rambam Medical Center & Director, Stem Cell Center Bruce
Rappaport Faculty of Medicine Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Haim Ring MD, MSc PMR, Professor and Chairman,
Neurological Rehabilitation Dept.Loewenstein Rehabilitation Center
Efraim Halperin MD, DTM&H, FACP, Director, Unit of Infectious
Diseases Bikur Cholim Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
Dr. Jacob Atsmon, Head, Clinical Pharmacology Unit, Director,
Clinical Research Center
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Dr. Alona Paz, Infectious diseases specialist
Infectious diseases unit, Bnai Zion Medical Center, Haifa
Dr Ilan Treves
Prof. D. Hochner, Head of Maternity Unit, Dept. of Obstetrics and
Gynecology, Hadassah Mount Scopus, Jerusalem
Gadi Shaked, MD, Department of Surgery, Trauma Unit, Soroka
University Medical Center
Prof. H. Matzkin, Head of Urology Dept., Tel Aviv Medical Center
Shlomo Keidar MD, Rambam Medical Center
HERSHKOVICH JACOB MD, SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER, BEER-SHEVA , ISRAEL
Jacob Arad M.D, Director of Emergency Dept,.Joseftal Hospital, Eilat
Israel
Prof. Michael Glikson, MD, FACC, FESC, Director of Pacing and
Electrophysiology
Heart Institute, Sheba Medical Center
Dr. Arieh Markel, Head, Internal Medicine A, Haamek Medical Center,
Afula
Dr. Gershon Fink, Head of Pulmonary Institute
Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, Chairman of the Israel society of
Pulmonology
Prof. Amos M. Cohen, Hematology Unit, Hasharon Hospital Rabin Medical
Center
Juza Chen, MD, Director of Sexual Dysfunction Clinic, Department of
Urology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Dr. Zvi Davidovich
Prof. Ilana Ariel, MD, PhD, Head, Perinatal Pathology Unit, The
Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem
Dr. Shimon Rochkind, Specialist in Neurosurgery & Microsurgery,
Director, Division of Peripheral Nerve Reconstruction, Tel Aviv Sourasky
Medical Center
Oscar H. Kracoff, MD, Cardiologist, Director of ICCU, Kaplan Medical
Center
Rehovot, Israel
Dr. Naomi Rahimi-Levene, Head, Blood Bank, Asaf Harofeh Medical
Center
Eran Segal, MD, Director, General ICU, Sheba Medical Center
Michael Giladi, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Acting Director,
the Infectious Disease Unit, Director, The Bernard Pridan Laboratory for
Molecular Biology of Infectious Diseases
Tel Aviv Medical Center
DR MICHAEL BENNETT, MB BS FRCP FRCPath CONSULTANT HAEMATOLOGIST
Yehuda Ullmann, Acting Head, Plastic Surgery Dept, .Rambam.Medical
Center
Eli M Eisenstein, M.D., Department of Pediatrics, Hadassah-Hebrew
University Medical Center
Prof. Simcha Yagel, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Centers
Professor Tamir Ben-Hur, M.D., Ph.D., Head, Department of Neurology,
Hadassah - Hebrew University Medical Center
Dr Spector Gregory, MD. PhD, Head of Urology Unit Joseftal Hospital
Eilat, Israel
Yaron Lang, MD, Head, Dept. of Ophthalmology
Ha'Emek Medical Center, Afula, Israel
Prof Zvi Zadik, Director, Pediatric Endocrine Unit, Kaplan Medical
Center
Chairman Israeli Pediatric Endocrine Associatiion
Fred M Konikoff, MD, MSc., Professor of Medicine, Head, Dept of
Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Meir Medical Center
Dov Inbar, MD, Schneider Children's Medical Center
Dr. Itzhak Rosner, Director of Rheumatology, Bnai Zion Medical Center
Raphael Catane MD, Professor & Chairman, Department of Oncology,
Sheba Medical Center
David Jonathan van Dijk, MD, Specialist in Internal Medicine and
Nephrology
Director of the Diabetic Nephropathy Clinic, Department of Nephrology and
Hypertension, Rabin Medical Center
Eli Konen M.D., Head of Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Sheba
Medical Center
Professor Elihu D richter MD MPH
Hebrew Univ-Hadassah SChool of Public Health Jerusalem
Prof. Alex Simon, Director of IVF Center, Hadassah University
Hospital, Jerusalem
Dr. Haim Shtarker, Head, Orthopedic Unit, Nahariya Medical Center
Dr Kleinman Yosef, Head of Internal Medicine, Bikur Cholim Hospital,
Jerusalem
Davidovitch Michael MD, Chairman of the Israeli Organization for
Child Development and Rehabilitation
Dr. Simon M. Schlanger,M.D.; Oncologist, Israel
T. Tichler, M.D., Chief, Oncology Inpatient Ward, Davidoff Cancer
Center, Beilinson Hospital
Treasurer of the Israeli Oncology and Radiotherapy Association
Dr Michael Gdalevich, Barzilai Medical Center, Ashkelon
Prof. Uri Kramer. Director, Pediatric Epilepsy Service, Tel Aviv
Sourasky Medical Center
Dr. Yona Yaniv
The Israel Society for surgery of the hand Chairperson
Hand surgeon - the hand surgery department Sheba hospital
Orthopedic surgeon
member - Physicians for human rights
Prof. Zvi Ram, Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, Tel Aviv Medical
Center
Dr Alon Reshef, Head of psychiatric outpatient clinic, Afula. Israel
Dr. Nissim Razon, Neurosurgeon, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Haim Gutman, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of Surgery
Tel Aviv University, Sackler School of Medicine.
Head, Surgical Oncology Service, Rabin Medical Center
Dr. Yosef MANOR, Head of Hematology, Meir Medical Center and Tel Aviv
University
Dr Mariana Steiner, Head of Oncology Service, Carmel Hospital, Haifa
David Huminer M.D., Rabin Medical Center
Ernst Voss MD, Gynaecologist , Hadassah University Hospital , Jerusalem
Prof. Moshe Garty MD MSC.FACP(MON) Head of Recanati Center for
Medicin - Research Beilinson campus Rabin Medicial Center, Israel
Dr. Yacov Fogelman, "Leumit" HMO
Sergey Preisman, M.D., Director of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia Unit, Sheba
Medical Center, Tel Hashomer
Dr. Haim Bitterman, President of the Israel Association of Internal
Medicine
Dr. Menahem Fisher, Deputy Chairman, Israeli Gynecology Association
Dr Igal Hekselman MD MHA-Medical Director, Health insurance system
& Clalit Mushlam
Miriam Zalish MD, Head, Glaucoma Unit, Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot
Prof. Yehuda G. Wolf, M.D., Head, Dept. of Vascular Surgery, Tel Aviv
Sourasky Medical Center
Alexander Kantarovsky MD, Vascular Surgery, Hillel Yaffe Medical
Center
Dr. Michael Stein, Head, Trauma Unit, Rabin Medical Center &
Chairman, Israeli Trauma Association
Marc Brezins, Cardiologist, Head of Cath. Lab. Western Galilee
Hospital Nahariya USA
Professor David Greenberg, Herzog Hospital, Jerusalem
Prof Amos Katz, M.D., Director, Department of Cardiology, Barzilai
Medical Center, Ashkelon, & Associate Dean for student Affairs,
Faculty of Health Sciences Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Nachum Soroker, M.D., Chairperson, Israel Society of Physical and
Rehabilitation Medicine
Head, Department of Neurological Rehabilitation, Loewenstein
Rehabilitation Hospital, Raanana
Shmuel Reis MD, MHPE, Head, Department of Medical Education, Faculty
of Medicine
The Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
Professor Alain Berrebi, Head, Hematology Institute,
Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, Israel.
Zemach Eisenstein M.D., Endocrine consultant, "Maccabi" Health
services, Israel
Head of Pediatrics, Medical Division in the Community, Clalit Medical
Services, Israel
Ronni Wolf, MD, Assoc. Clin. Prof. of Dermatology, Head, Dermatology
Unit
Kaplan Medical Center, Rechovot
Prof. Benjamin Brenner, Director, Thrombosis and Hemostasis Unit,
Dept. of Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation, Rambam Medical
Center, Haifa
Prof. Raanan Shamir, Head, Pediatric gastroenterology and Nutrition,
Meyer Children's hospital of Haifa, Rith and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of
Medicine, Technion-Institute of Technology, Israel
Prof. Ron Maymon, Department OB/GYN, Assaf Harofe Medical Center
& Tel Aviv university
Prof. Shmuel Kivity, Israel
Dr. Shlomo Moshe – Maccabi Health Services
Dr. Michal Tavor - Maccabi Health Services
Dr. Yair Barak - Maccabi Health Services
Dr. Michal Shilo - Maccabi Health Services
Professor Esther Paran, Head, Hypertension Unit, Soroka University
Hospital, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheba, Israel
Prof. Patrick Sorkine, Head of Intensive Care Unit, Sourasky Medical
Center, Tel Aviv
Prof. Eliezer Kitai, Head, Dept Family Medicine, Leumit HMO, Dept.
Family Medicine , Tel-Aviv University
Mario Sztern M.D, Head of the Emergency Medicine Department, Meir
Medical Center
Kfar Saba
Dr. Meira Berger, Head of the department of family medicine A,
Maccabi Health Services
Israel
Gerry Leisman, MD, PhD, Director & Professor
The F. R. Carrick Institute for Clinical Ergonomics, Rehabilitation &
Applied Neuroscience of Leeds Metropolitan University & Professor,
University of Haifa
Ian Miskin MD, Specialist in Family Medicine, Infectious Disease
Consultant, Jerusalem
Dr. STOLIN MARINA, Clalit Health Services, Israel
Boris Yoffe MD FACS, Head Department, General and Vascular Surgery,
Barzilai Medical Center, Ashkelon, Israel
Prof. Rephael Zeltser, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem
Dr Leon Joseph, IDF medical Corps, Israel
Prof. Jochanan E. Naschitz, Technion, Haifa
Baruch Brenner, MD, Gastrointestinal Oncology Unit, Head, Davidoff
Cancer Center
Rabin Medical Center
Dror Ovadia, MD, Orthopaedic surgeon, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical
Center
Ron Arnon, M.D, Institute of Gastroenterology, Hadassah Medical
Center
Jerusalem, Israel
Prof. Gilad Ben-Baruch, Director
Department of Gynecologic-Oncology, Sheba Medical Center
Tel-Hashomer, Israel
Dan M. Fliss MD, President of the Israeli Society of
Otorhinolaryngology /
Head & Neck Surgery, Professor and Chairman
Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center Tel Aviv 64239, ISRAEL
Dr. Eli Shahak MD Soroka MEDICAL CENTER, Israel
A. Mark Clarfield, MD, FRCPC, Head of Geriatrics, Soroka Hospital.
Sidonie Hecht Professor of Geriatrics, Faculty of Health Sciences,
Ben-Gurion University.
Dr. Michael Koffler, Director, The Diabetes Unit, Tel-Aviv Medical
Center, Ichilov Hospital, Tel Aviv
Dr Suzy Ronen, Sharei Zedek Medical Center
Prof Raphael Breuer, MD, Head, Inst of Pulmonary Medicine & Lung
Biology Laboratory
Hadassah - Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
ASA LEV-EL M.D ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON, DIRECTOR OF ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY
DEPT, R.SIEFF HOSPITAL, SAFED
Nathan I Cherny MBBS FRACP FRCP
Medical Oncologist and Director of Palliative Care
Dept Oncology
Shaare Zedek Medical Centre
Jerusalem ISRAEL
Jacob Pe'er, M.D.
Professor and Chairman
Department of Ophthalmology
Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center
Jerusalem, Israel
Avigdor Mandelberg, MD.
Director, Pediatric Pulmonary Unit
The Department of Pulmonary Medicine and Pediatrics
The Edith Wolfson Medical Center,
Affiliate with the Sackler school of medicine, Tel-Aviv University
Israel.Holon 58100, ISRAEL
Prof. Lior Rosenberg, MD. Chairman of the Department of Plastic &
Reconstructive Surgery Soroka University Medical Center, The Ben Gurion
University, Beer Sheva and Chairman of The Unit for Cleft Lip, Palate
& Craniofacial Deformities Meir Hospital, Kfar Saba, Israel
Dr. Z. Davidovich, Clalit Health Services, Israel
Joseph Faber, MD, Former (retired) Head, Division of Pediatric
Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, Shaare Zedek
Medical Center, Jerusalem
Prof. Josef Elidan, Chairman, Otolaryngology/Head & Neck
Surgery, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem
Dr Beloosesky Yichayaou, Head Geriatric Department, Rabin Medical
Ceter
Petach Tikva, Israel
Shay Pintov M.D – Israel
Paul Sagiv MD, MSc, Head, Hand Surgery Unit, Meir Medical Center
Kfar Saba, Israel
Segal Karl, M.D.Deputy Head Dept. of Otolaryngology @ Head and Neck
Surgery, RABIN MEDICAL CENTER, Israel
Meyer Lifschitz M.D. , Adult Nephrologist, Shaare Zedek Medical
Center, Jerusalem and Professor Emeritus, University of Texas Health
Science Center at San Antonio, Texas USA
Daniel Landau, MD, Director, Pediatrics Department A, Head, Pediatric
Nephrology Unit, Soroka university Medical Center, Beer Sheva, 84101,
Israel
Prof. Gershon Holcberg, Soroka University Medical Center, Israel
Dr Ellenbogen Adrian, Director, IVF Unit, Hillel Yaffe Medical
Centre, Hadera ISRAEL
Dr. Zeev Goldik, Head of Post Anaesthesia Care Unit
Lady Davis Carmel Medical Centre, Haifa- Israel
Galia Barkai MD, Pediatric Dept., Soroka University Medical Center, Beer-
Sheva
Dr. Juza Chen, Urology Dept, Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv
Dr Anthony S. Luder MB BS., MRCP(UK), Director Paediatrics and
Genetics, Ziv Medical Centre, Safed
Zvi Borochowitz, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Medical Genetics
Director, The Simon Winter Institute for Human Genetics, Bnai-Zion Medical
Center,
Technion-Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Haifa
Dr B Rapoport , Maccabi HMO and Dept of Family Medicine , Tel-Aviv
University
Edgar Pick, M.D.,Ph.D, Professor
Director, the Julius Friedrich Cohnheim - Minerva Center for Phagocyte
Research Head, the Ela Kodesz Institute of Host Defense against Infectious
Diseases Incumbent, the Roberts-Guthman Chair in Immunopharmacology
Sackler School of Medicine Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
Ze'ev Shenkman, MD
Pediatric Anesthesiologist
Department of Anesthesiology C
Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan, Israel
Dr M Wisnovitz, Specialist Family Physician, Maccabi Health Services,
Eilat
Avraham Rivkind , M.D., Head, Dept. of General Surgery & Shock
Trauma Unit Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
Isac Bloch M.D., HaEmek Medical Center, Head and Neck Surgery, Afula,
Israel
Noam Goldstein, M.D., Head, Pulmonary Disease Unit And Regional
Tuberculosis Center,Naharia Hospital, Naharia, Israel
Dr. Miriam A. Hahn, Israel
Batia Weiss, MD, Pediatric Gastroenterology, Safra Children's
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Samuel F Berkovic, AM MD FAA FRACP
Professor of Medicine (Neurology), University of Melbourne, Epilepsy
Research Centre, Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital, Austin Health
VIC 3081, Australia
Howard Trachtman MD, Schneider Children's Hospital, New Hyde Patk NY,
USA
Avram R. Gold, MD, Associate Prof. of Medicine
Medical Director, Stony Brook University Sleep Disorders Center
Stony Brook, New York, USA
Adam Albert, Final year medical student, University of Manchester, UK
Linda Granowetter M.D.
Columbia University Medical Center- New York New York Morgan Stanley
Children's Hospital of New York-Presbyterian Clinical Director Division of
Pediatric Oncology, Medical Director Oncology-Hematology and Stem Cell,
USA
Jill S. Menell, MD, Chief, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
St. Joseph's Children's Hospital, Paterson, NJ 07503 USA
Bryan D.Myers,MD,Professor o f Medicine(active emeritus) Stanford
University, California,U.S.A.
Matthew Lorber M.D., SUNY Upstate University Hospital, Syracuse, USA
Edward M. Ornitz, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry, Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles
California, USA
Robert R. Goodman, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
New York, N.Y. 10032 USA
Evan Shereck, MD, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology , Columbia
University, USA
George J. Siegel, MD
Emeritus Professor of Neurology and Cell Biology, Neurobiology &
Anatomy,
Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
Consulting Neurologist, Director of Multiple Sclerosis Clinic,Edward
Hines, Jr.VA Hospital, Hines, IL
Editor-in-Chief, Basic Neurochemistry
Charles J. Hyman, MD, FAAP, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, LLU
Redlands, Ca, USA
Michael Wechsler M.D. F.A.C.S.
Columbia University, Associate Professor of Clinical Urology, USA
Dr Simon Wiseman, General Practitioner, London UK
Dr Robin Woolfson MD FRCP
Clinical Director for Nephrology & Transplantation, Royal Free
Hospital, London, UK
Dr. Georgina Wechsler, 40474 Düsseldorf Germany
Eugene H. Kaplan, M.D., D.L.F.A.P.A.
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Neuropsychiatry & Behavioral
Science
U. of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC 29203 USA
Dr. Rimoczi, D-42489 Wülfrath, Germany
Perry Cooper MD FRCP(C), Dept. of Medical Imaging (Neuroradiology),
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre University of Toronto Canada
Kathy L. Ales, MD, FACP Princeton, NJ, USA
Dr Ruth Schneier, Australia
Dr Zalman Rosenblum, Australia
Carolyn Fein Levy, MD
Attending, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology The Brooklyn Hospital Center
Brooklyn, NY 11201 USA
Edith Diament Gurewitsch, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Gynecology & Obstetrics Division of Maternal
Fetal Medicine Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 600 North Wolfe
Street, Phipps 217 Baltimore, Maryland 21287 USA
Prof. Dr. Peter Fritsch, chairman of the department of dermatology,
Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria
Ass. Prof. Dr. Esther Fritsch, retired deputy chairman of the
department of radio oncology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria
Dr. med. Alexander NASS
Arzt für Neurologie und Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie; Dellbrücker
Hauptstraße 90,
51069 Köln, Germany
Peter Enten MBBS, FRACGP, Melbourne, Australia
Dr.med.Maria Leuschner, Internist, Hepatologist, Psychotherapist,
Herrnstr.51, 63605 Offenbach, Germany
Judith Livingston University of Leeds Medical Student, UK
Dr Romi Janovic, Melbourne Australia
Dr Michael Peters, GP- London, UK
Dr David Hoadley
AJMF - NZ President
General Practitioner
Sen Lecturer, University of Auckland
Henri Goldstein
Head of Department, M.D., D.Sc.
President of the Federation of Danish-Jewish Physicians
Dr. med. Dipl. Psych. Alex Gillor, Childrens' Hospital of the city of
Cologne, Pediatric Cardiology, Germany
Dr Wayne Lemish Director of Radiology, Freemason Medical Center,
Melbourne, Australia
Arthur Safran M.D. Assistant Professor of Neurology
Tufts University Chairman, Ethics and Grievance Committee
Massachusetts Medical Society, USA
Nicholas J Naftalin OBE FRCOG Emeritus Consultant in Obstetrics and
Gynaecology, London, UK
Hilary Livingston, Consultant Psychiatrist, Royal Alexandra Hospital,
Paisley, Scotland
Sergio Seibel, MD, PhD. Psychiatrist. University of Sao Paulo –
School of Medicine, Brazil. President of the Brazilian Chapter of IMA
Dr Zalman Rosenblum, Elsternwick Medical Centre, Melbourne Australia
Dr Ruth Schneier, Elsternwick Medical Centre, Melbourne Australia
Dr Adam Gordon MBBS FRACP, Australia
Dr Michelle Gordon MBBS FRACP, Australia
Dean H. Kedes, MD, PhD, Department of Medicine, University of
Virginia, USA
Dr.Klara Reder-Shemaryahu, Germany
Gary Kupfer, Associate Professor, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
Dr. Horst Sabiers, Surgeon, Municipal Hospital Cologne Germany
Krankenhaus Holweide
Dr. Assaf ZELTZER, M.D., Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Belgium
Dr Martin Livingston MD FRCPsych Consultant Psychiatrist and Honorary
Senior Clinical Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, Southern General
Hospital, Glasgow G51 4TF, United Kingdom
Prof Mois Bahar MD, Istanbul University, Cerrahpaþa Medical Faculty
Chairman, Dept. Anaesthesiology & Intensive Care, Turkey
Dr. Claudio Cosman, CAAMI (Capitulo Argentino de la Asociacion Medica
Israeli), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Lee B. Sacks, M.D.
Executive Vice President, Chief Medical Officer
Wendy S. Rubinstein, MD, PhD, FACMG, FACP
Medical Director
Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Center for Medical Genetics
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, USA
Harold A. Kessler, M.D.
Professor of Medicine and Immunology/Microbiology
Associate Director, Section of Infectious Diseases
Associate Dean, Post-Graduate Medical Education
Director, Office of Continuing Medical Education
Rush University Medical Center, USA
Vita J. Land, MD, MBA, USA
David Sales MD PhD FACG AGAF, USA
Richard J. Levy, M.D. , USA
Marc A. Rubenstein M.D. , USA
Larry Domont, M.D. , USA
Frank Phillips
Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, IL, USA
Ira Wolke, M.D., Ph.D. , USA
Richard A. Mintzer, M.D.,FACR, FCCP
Clinical Professor of Radiology
Northwestern Univ. Medical School
President and CEO Medical Imaging of Northbrook Court, USA
Sami Weisberg, MD
member, American Association of Pediatrics, USA
Raymond M Handler MD, USA
Arlene F Handler RN, USA
Matt Plofsky, MD, USA
Lawrence Feldman, M.D. , USA
Diane Mulvey Loewenstein MR1, J.D., MBA. , USA
Wayne M Goldstein MD, USA
Jay L. Goldstein, MD
Professor of Medicine
Vice Head for Clinical Affairs
Department of Medicine
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Dr. David J. Kushner, USA
Marla Mendleson
Associate professor of Medicine and Pediatrics of the
Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, USA
Michael S. Pinzur, MD Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery &
Rehabilitation Loyola University Medical Center, USA
Joel B. Greenman, MD, USA
Sheri Ross MD, USA
MICHAEL GROSSMAN M.D. , USA
Riley Minster, MD
FAAP
Lake Shore Pediatrics, Lake Forest, IL, USA
Edward S. Linn, M.D.
Chairman, Dept of Ob-Gyn
Rush North Shore Medical Center, USA
Julian M. Joffe MD
Ian Cohen MD FACC
Illinois Heart and Vascular
Chief of Cardiology – Weiss Memorial Hospital
Asst Prof of Med – Rush University Medical Center, USA
Robert Perlmuter MD, Chicago USA
Laura Sanders M.D. , Chicago USA
Linda Goldstein M.D. , Chicago USA
Nelson Kanter, MD, Chicago USA
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Daniel P. Mass MD, Chicago USA
Stuart W. Rosenbush MD, Chicago USA
Bruce Brockstein, MD, Chicago USA
Laurie Hochberg, M.D. , Chicago USA
Susan Sirota, Chicago USA
Jeffrey Kopin, M.D. , Chicago USA
Burton Herbstman, M.D., Chicago USA
Michael Davidson, M.D. , Chicago USA
Dr Karina Stolyarsky, Melbourne, Australia
Dr Elizabeth Segal, Melbourne, Australia
Naomi Vilko, MD
Psychiatry and Psychopharmacology
Vilko Corporate Consulting, USA
Sidney Goldfarb, MD
Urology, USA
David A. Turner, MD, FACR
Professor and Chairperson
Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
Rush University Medical Center
1653 W. Congress Parkway
Chicago, IL 60612 USA
William L. Cantor, MD FAAO-HNS
Assistant Clinical Professor of Otolaryngology, New York Medical College
Associate Director Medical Education, Pascack Valley Hospital, Westwood,
NJ 07675 USA
David P. Rapaport, MD, FACS, Plastic Surgeon, Director, Park Avenue
OBS, 580 Park Avenue, New York, NY, USA
Pincas Bitterman, MD
Professor and Director of Gynecologic Pathology
Department of Pathology and Obstetrics & Gynecology
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, Il 60612, USA
Melvin Lopata, MD
Professor of Medicine
University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, USA
Ross A. Abrams, M.D.
Chairman & Hendrickson Professor
Dept. of Radiation Oncology
Rush Univ. Medical Center
Chicago, IL. USA
S Michael Fuhrman DO, Delmar NY USA
Robert Szigeti, M.D., Ph. D., Dr. med Sc., Senior Lecturer
Karolinska Institute and Hospital
Dept. of Pediatrics, Stockholm, Sweden
Nelson M Wolf, MD, FACC, FACP Prof of Medicine, Director Cardiac
Catheterization Laboratories, Temple Univ Hosp. Phila., Pa, USA
Dr. Ron Spielman, Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst
Paddington, NSW, Australia
Ronald Barabas, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Drexel University College of Medicine
Dr Keith B. Shilkin, Clinical Professor of Pathology, University of
Western Australia
Consultant Pathologist
Dr Ben King, Senior House Officer/Clinical Research Fellow, Royal
Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust, UK
Jay D. Luft M.D., Section Chief ENT Christiana Care Wilmington Delaware,
USA
Stephen A. Pearlman, MD
Fellowship Director,Neonatology,TJUH
Associate Director, Neonatology, CCHS
Director of Medical Education, Pediatrics, CCHS, USA
Owen B White
Neurologist
Royal Melbourne Hospital
Department of Neurosciences
PARKVILLE 3050
AUSTRALIA
Dr.Gregory Belkin, Australia
Sonia Kurtz MD, MSc, University of Toronto Faculty, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada
John A Eisman AO, MB BS, PhD, FRACP
Professor of Medicine (Conjoint), University of New South Wales;
Staff Endocrinologist, St Vincent's Hospital; and
Director, Bone and Mineral Research Program,
Garvan Institute of Medical Research,
Sydney, NSW 2010
Australia
Lawrence W. White MD
26 La Cuesta
Greenbrae CA 94904 USA
Viktoria Viprinski ,specialist in Neurology, Psychiatry,
Psychotheraphy, Cologne, Germany
Monica Feder, MD
Specialist in Medical Rehabilitation
Stockholm, Sweden
Refael Guggenheim, MD, Zurich, Switzerland, Israel Medical
Association (Switzerland)
Willy Krauthammer, MD, Zurich, Switzerland, President Israel Medical
Association (Switzerland)
Sheldon B. Stern, Psy.D.
New York State Licensed Psychologist, USA
Ms. Carly Leff, student at Barnard College, USA
Dr Leslie R. Segal
Senior Lecturer
Department of General Practice
Monash University
Melbourne, Australia
Jeffrey A. Ascherman, M.D.
Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery,
Chief, Division of Plastic Surgery,
Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
Dr Alexander Freitag FRACP
Consultant Physician in Private Practice, Sydney, Australia
Michael S. Huckman, MD, FACR
Prof. of Radiology, Dir. Of Neuroradiology
Rush University Medical Center,Chicago,IL USA
Associate Professor Adam Jaffe
BSc (Hons) MD FRCP FRCPCH FRACP
Consultant in Respiratory Medicine
Sydney Children's Hospital and Conjoint Appointee School of Women's and
Children's Health University of New South Wales High Street, Randwick
Sydney NSW 2031 Australia
Dr David Itzkowic
Gynaecologist, Bondi Junction, 2022 Australia
Monty Shnier. ( MBbCh.DCh.R.C.&S. FR.C.PE.,F.R.A.C.P)
Paediatrician, Sydney Australia.
Dr Gil Kleiner Ear nose and Throat specialist
Marrickville Australia
Gabriel Zipser MB BS (Sydney), FRCS (Eng), FRCS (Ed), FRCOG, FRACOG
Dr Garry Schaffer MBBS,FRANZCR
Radioloigist, Sydney, Australia
Dr Peter Kitchener
MB BS FRANZCR
Director, CityXRAY Sydney Australia
Ronald Barabas, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19129 USA
Dr David Huber FRACS, Director of Vascular Surgery, Wollongong
Hospital, Wollongong, NSW Australia
Jeffrey A. Arons MD, New Haven, CT USA
Arthur L. Frank MD,PhD, Professor of Public Health, Drexel University
School of Public Health, Philadelphia,PA USA
Stephen A Morris, M.D.
Asst Clinical Professor of Surgery
College of Human Medicine
Michigan State University, Saginaw, Michigan, USA
Elliott Greene, MD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Albany Medical College
Albany, New York, USA
Gary S. Mintz, MD. Medical Director, Publications and Online
Education, Cardiovascualr Research Foundation, New York, NY, and Editor-in
-Chief, TCTMD.com, USA
Dr Jeffrey Chaitow M.B.B.Ch.,FRACP , Australia
Dr. Gerald Dorros, MD, DSc (yeshiva), DSc (Colby), FACC, FESC, FACP
Medical Director
Dorros-Feuer Interventional Cardiovascular Disease Foundation, Ltd
Wilson, Wyoming USA
Stuart CHalew, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics
LSUHSC
New Orleans, LA USA
Dr Hazel Goldberg, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick
St George Hospital, Kogarah and
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, Australia
Erik Magid, retired
MD. DMSCI.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Alan Fine, M.D.
Boston University, USA
Harold J. Bursztajn M.D.
co-Founder Program in Psychiatry and the Law
@BIDMC of the Psychiatry Department of Harvard Medical School, USA
Cory S. Goldberg MD, BSc, MASc, FRCS(C)
Plastic Surgery Fellow
Children's Hospital of Los Angeles
University of Southern California, USA
Peter L. Carlen MD, FRCPC
Professor
Departments of Medicine (Neurology), Physiology, and IBBME
University of Toronto, Canada
Ierachmiel Daskal M.D., PhD, FCAP, FASCP Professor and Chairman
Department of pathology Albert Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia PA
19141 USA
A. Michael Lincoff, MD
Vice Chairman for Research, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Director, Cleveland Clinic Cardiovascular Coordinating Center
Professor of Medicine
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve
University
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, OH 44195 USA
Elazer R. Edelman, MD, PhD, FACC
Director, Harvard-MIT Biomedical Engineering Center
Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Professor
Health Sciences and Technology
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, USA
Hyam I. Levitsky, M.D.
Professor of Oncology, Medicine, and Urology Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive
Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine, USA
Mark B. Effron, MD, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Achi Ludomirsky, M.D.
The Louis Larrick Ward Professor
of Pediatrics and Biomedical Engineering
Director, Division of Pediatric Cardiology
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis Children's Hospital, USA
Terry Unterman, MD
Professor of Medicine, Physiology and Biophysics University of Illinois at
Chicago College of Medicine, USA
Edith Diament Gurewitsch, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Gynecology & Obstetrics Division of Maternal
Fetal Medicine Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 600 North Wolfe
Street, Phipps 217 Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
David M. Briscoe M.D., Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School.
Childrens Hospital Boston, USA
Igor Ed Krichevsky M.D.
Norwalk Hospital
Norwalk, CT USA
Jose Biller, M.D., FACP, FAAN, FAHA
Professor and Chairman
Department of Neurology
Loyola University Chicago
Stritch School of Medicine
Maywood, IL 60153 USA
David R. Musher, MD
FACP, FACG
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
NYU School of Medicine
New York, NY 10029 USA
Josh Korman MD, FACS
Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor
Stanford University, USA
Asher Schachter, MD, MMSc, MS
Division of Nephrology, Children's Hospital Boston Children's Hospital
Informatics Program at Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, USA
Dr El Bèze Yves, cardiologist, Paris; France
Michael J. Schneck, MD
Associate Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery Director, NICU Associate
Director, Stroke Unit Loyola University Medical Center 2160 South First
Avenue Maywood, IL, USA
Dr. Chaim Bernstein
Associate Medical Director
Chief Pulmonary and Critical Care
Beth Israel Medical Center Kings Highway Division Brooklyn, New York, USA
Daniel Jacobs, M.D.
Mountain View, California, USA
Michael A Binder, MD
Tampa, FL, USA
Avron Daniller. MD. FRCS, England
David berman MD
Sterling, VA, USA
Elliot S. Gershon, MD
Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry and Human Genetics
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
Professor Gabriel Danovitch
Medical Director of Kidney Transplant Program David Geffen School of
Medicine at UCLA, USA
Sorin Brener MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Cleveland Clinic, USA
A.Stone Freedberg MD Professor of Medicine(Emeritus)
Harvard Medical School,Harvard University
Boston Mass.,USA
Edward R. Burns, M.D.
Executive Dean
Professor of Medicine and Pathology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, NY 10461 USA
Adam J . Rubinstein, MD
Turnberry Plastic Surgery
Board Certified, American Board of Plastic Surgery
Member, American Society of Plastic Surgeons, USA
Ari Melmed, MD
Vice Chirman, Department of Emergency Medicine
Exempla St. Joseph Hospital
Denver, Colorado, USA
Dean E. Brenner, M.D.
Kutsche Family Memorial Professor of Internal Medicine Professor of
Pharmacology 2150 Cancer and Geriatrics Center University of Michigan
Medical Center 1500 E. Hospital Drive Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Neal Lakritz MD
Massachusetts Medical Society, Delegate, USA
Dr. Michael E. Matlak
Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics, University of Utah School of
Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Dafna D. Gladman MD, FRCPC
Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto
Senior Scientist, Toronto Western Research Institute
University Health Network, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada
Bettina L. Fliegel MD, FAAP
Assistant Clinical Professor, Pediatrics, Mount Sinai Hospital New York,
New York, USA
Emmanuel Messas MD PhD
Paticien hospitalier-Cardiologue
Pole cardiovasculaire-Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou
INSERM U633, Faculté de médecine Paris Descartes, Paris 5
75015 Paris, France
Leslie J Klaff MD PhD
Rainier Clinical Research Center
Renton WA USA
Hadar J. Merhav MD
Assistant Medical Director
Liver Transplantation & Hepatobiliary Surgical Associates Affiliated
with Memorial Hermann Hospital.
Associate Professor of Surgery - University of Texas Houston, USA
Harvey L. Gordon, MD, FACS
Clinical Professor of Urology and Medical Ethics
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX, USA
Daniel Thau Teitelbaum, M.D.
Associate Clinical Professor of Preventive Medicine
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center at Denver
Denver, Colorado
Adjunct Professor of Environmental Sciences
The Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, USA
Pr Fabien Koskas
Service de Chirurgie Vasculaire
La Salpêtrière Paris France
Gor Levy-Reis, M.D.
Neurologist
Naples, Florida, USA
David J Zukor MD FRCSC
Chief Department Orthopedic Surgery
SMBD-Jewish General Hospital
Associate Professor Surgery McGill University
Montreal Canada
Giora Katz MD
Urologist
Manitowoc Wisconsin USA
Steven H. Cobb, M.D.
Phoenix, Arizona USA
Arthur E. Cohen, MD, MS, MPH, ScD(hon)
Keene State College, Keene, NH USA
Paul DeSandre, DO
Attending Physician, Emergency Medicine
Beth Israel Medical Center
New York, NY
Dr John Gallo, Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Ellis D. Avner, M.D.
Director, Children's Research Institute
Associate Dean for Research, Medical College of WI, USA
David P. Bick, M.D. Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Medical
College of Wisconsin; Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Dr Jonathan Mushin, Melbourne, Australia
Dr.Lockie Milner, Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of Pediatric
Nehrology, the Floating Hospital for Children, New England Medical
Center,and Tufts UniversitySchool of Medicine ,Boston, Massachusetts, USA
David D. Gutterman, MD Northwestern Mutual Professor of Cardiology, Senior
Associate Dean for Research, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI,
USA
Irving "Jake" Jacoby, MD, USA
Pr Alain COHEN SOLAL
French Faculty of Medicine Paris VII, France
Dr Chantal TANGER
Vascular Diseases Doppler
75010 PARIS, France
Marvin Forland, MD, MACP
Professor Emeritus
Department of Medicine, Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (Texas), USA
David de Vries, M.D., Pulmonologist.
Harderwijk, The Netherlands
Mitchell J. Barrer, MD, Diplomate, American Board of Anesthesiology,
Fellow of the American College of Anesthesiology, President, Grand View
Anesthesia Associates. Sellersville, PA 18960 USA
Bernard G. Moffie MD, clinical microbiologist
Vlietland Ziekenhuis
Schiedam, The Netherlands
Jeffrey Kaufman MD, FACS
President, American Association of Clinical Urologists
Member, AMA and American College of Surgeons
Paige Applebaum Farkas M.D.
Medical Director
Comprehensive Dermatology and Laser Center
Ridgewood, New Jersey, USA
Jacques Blacher, Director of the cardiovascular unit of Hôtel-Dieu
hospital of Paris, Paris, France
Pr Francine Behar-Cohen, René Descartes University, Paris, France
Mark Mausner MD
Chief, Dept of Plastic Surgery, Suburban Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Roy D. Altman, MD
Professor of Medicine
David Geffen School of Medicine
At the University of California, Los Angeles
Editor-in-Chief, /Osteoarthritis and Cartilage/
Editor, /Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism/
Past President: Osteoarthritis Research Society International
Prior Delegate to the American Medical Association
Bernard S. Kaplan MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine and Urology The Children's Hospital of
Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA, USA
Juda Habot MD, FRCPC, Division of Cardiology, Southlake Regional
Health Centre, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
Jose Benchimol MD, Transplant Surgeon in Caracas, Venezuela. Member
of the Jewish Association of Venezuela
Robert M. Glueck, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Executive Director, Carondelet Heart Institute, Kansas City, Missouri USA
David Sapire M.D.
Professor, Department Of Pediatrics
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas 77030 USA
Nachman Braurbar, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Medicine
University of Southern California
Keck School of Medicine
Los Angeles, CA USA
Gary Loren, M.D.
Anesthesiologist
New Jersey, USA
Barry Kogan, Chief, Division of Urology, Albany Medical College, USA
Lorne Rosenfield M.D.
1750 El Camino Real
Burlingame Ca, USA
Brian W Berman MD Professor of Pediatrics Case Western Reserve
University School of Medicine, Division Chief, General Academic Pediatrics
Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital Cleveland, Ohio USA
Philip Frost M.D.Ph.D.
President
Calesca Pharmaceuticals
Morristown,NJ, USA
Paige Kaplan M.B.B.Ch.(Witwatersrand)
Professor of Mitochondrial and Metabolic Diseases Children's Hospital of
Philadelphia, USA
Benjamin Fass, MD
Pediatric Endocrinologist
Kaiser Permanente
6041 Cadillac Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90035, USA
Professor Rebecca S Mason
Head, Physiology
Associate Dean (Curriculum), Medicine,
Chair, USyd Medical Program Committee
University of Sydney,
NSW 2006, Australia
Elizabeth B. Rappaport M.D.
Associate Professor, Department Of Family And Community Medicine
Thomas Jefferson University, USA
Avroy A Fanaroff MD
Professor and Chair
Department of Pediatrics
Case Western Reserve University, USA
Norman M Magid, MD, FACC, FACP, Clinical Associate Professor of
Medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, USA
Dr Anthony Levine Sydney NSW Australia
Leslie Schrieber MD FRACP
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Sydney, Australia
Dr Jerome Edelstein, MD, FRCSC
Plastic Surgeon
Toronto, Canada
Dr. Nitsa Kohut
541 St. Germain Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
TARRAGANO Francois
Interventional Cardiologist, American Hospital of Paris, Lariboisiere
Public Hospital, France
Jeffrey A. Ascherman, M.D.
Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery, Chief, Division of Plastic
Surgery, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, USA
Dr Morris Segel Family Medicine Sydney Australia
alec vahanian ,head of the cardiology department ,Bichat hospital
,Paris ,France
Les White MBBS FRACP DSc MRACMA MHA
John Beveridge Professor of Paediatrics University of NSW & Executive
Director Sydney Children's Hospital High Street, Randwick NSW 2031,
Australia
Joseph Richter, MD
Assistant Professor, Clinical Pediatrics
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, USA
Michael R. Rosen M.D.
Gustavus A.Pfeiffer Professor of Pharmacology
Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Center for Molecular Therapeutics
Columbia University, NY, USA
Dr.Fernand Hessel président de la Fondation de cardiologie Lucien
Dreyfus 15 rue du Tivoli F 68100 Mulhouse, France
Dr Bradley Lewinsohn FY1 at the Royal London hospital, England
Dr H.H.Themans ENT
Amsterdam Holland
Mr. Eric Chemla
Consultant renal transplant and vascular surgeon St Georges Healthcare NHS
trust Blackshaw Road London SW17, England
Dr. Barry F. Cohn
Retired Anesthesiologist/Intensivist
Leiden University Medical Center
The Netherlands
William Schwartz, MD
Attending Physician
Good Samaritan Hopital
Suffern, NY l0901 USA
Dr F. HAZIZA. Hopital Foch. France
Pamela Scheinman, MD
Assistant Professor of Dermatology
Director, Contact Dermatitis and Occupational Dermatology Unit
Tufts-New England Medical Center
Boston, MA 02111 USA
Igor J. Koralnik, MD
Director, HIV/Neurology Center
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Associate Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
HARRY L. SERNAKER, M.D., Esq --Director: Mid Atlantic Medical Detox
Foundation, Baltimore, MD, USA
Dr. H.C. Weinstein
Afdeling Neurologie
Sint Lucas Andreas Ziekenhuis
Postbus 9243, 1006 AE Amsterdam, Holland
Dr. Horst Sabiers
D-50668 Köln (Cologne/Germany)
Michael S Lauer, MD, FACC, FAHA
Professor of Medicine
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of CWRU
Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Case Western Reserve University
Contributing Editor, JAMA, USA
Riva Akerman MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Pediatric
Anesthesia Division, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA
Harley A. Rotbart, M.D.
Professor and Vice Chairman of Pediatrics
Professor of Microbiology
Pediatric Infectious Diseases
University of Colorado School of Medicine, USA
Rina Lazebnik
Professor of Pediatrics, Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland Ohio, USA
David Schillinger, M.D. FACEP, USA
Andrew N. Pollak, MD
Associate Professor and Head
Division of Orthopaedic Trauma
Associate Director of Trauma
R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Dr. Adrian Flohr
MVZ MEDPLUS, 47799 Krefeld, Germany
Steven R. Levine, M.D., Mount Sinai Medical Center, NY, NY, USA
Joseph D. Rosenblatt M.D. Professor of Medicine , Microbiology and
Immunology William Harrington Chair in Hematology Division Chief,
Hematology Oncology Associate Director for Clinical and Translational
Research, SCCC, USA
Salomon Kramer, D.O. General Surgeon, Texas, USA
Stephen Berman MD FAAP
Professor of Pediatrics University of Colorado School of Medicine
Past President American Academy of Pediatrics, USA
Nathan Rabinovitch MD.
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Division of Allergy Immunology
National Jewish Medical and Research Center 1400 Jackson Street, Denver,
USA
Stuart S. Kesler, MD
Clinical Assistant
Department of Urology
Hackensack University Medical Center
Hackensack, NJ USA
Maurice Buchbinder M.D.
Foundation for Cardiovascular Medicine, Scripps Memorial Hospital,
LaJolla, California U.S.A
Professeur Bernard LOBEL, Pour le Président,
Confederation des Associations Médicales Juives de France.
Marc Yudkoff, MD
WT Grant Prof. of Pediatrics, Univ. of PA School of Medicine Chief, Div.
of Child Development, Rehabilitation and Metabolic Disease Children's
Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
Richard A. Spritz, M.D.
Professor and Director,
Human Medical Genetics Program
University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center
Aurora, CO 80045 USA
Charles Antzelevitch, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FHRS Executive Director/Director of
Research, Gordon K. Moe Scholar Professor of Pharmacology, Masonic Medical
Research Laboratory , Utica, NY 13501-1787, USA
Alicia McFarren M.D.
Graduate of New York Medical College '07, future pediatric resident -
Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
Nachum Katlowitz M.D., N.Y., USA
Lawrence Copelovitch MD, Renal Fellow, The Children's Hospital of
Philadelphia, USA
Estelle Stetz-Marcus MD
Hingham, Massachusetts, USA
M.Jeffrey Maisels MD
Chairman
Department of Pediatrics, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak MI 48073-
6769 USA
Baruch Krauss MD, EdM
Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts 02115 USA
Boris Havkin M.D.
Melbourne Internal medicine Associates.
Melbourne, Florida, USA.
Paul M. Weinberg, M.D.
Director, Fellowship Training Program in Pediatric Cardiology Professor of
Pediatrics and Pediatric Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Associate
Professor of Radiology at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA
Michael Schaffer, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics
University of Colorado School of Medicine, USA
Claude A Brachfeld MD FACC
Asst Clinical Professor of Vascular Surgery, University of Kansas
Hutchinson Clinic
Hutchinson KS 67502, USA
Haya R. Rubin, M.D., Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University, USA
Ronald J. Sokol, MD Professor and Vice Chair of Pediatrics Chief, Section
of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Program Director,
Pediatric Clinical Translational Research Center (formerly GCRC)
University of Colorado School of Medicine, The Children's Hospital,
Denver, Colorado 80218 USA
Rich Klasco, MD, FACEP
Senior VP, Medical Affairs & Editor-in-Chief
Thomson Healthcare
Greenwood Village, CO 80111-4740 USA
Lori A. Lemberg, MD, Attending Physician--Jacobi Medical Center, Asst.
Clinical Professor of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine,
Bronx, New York, USA
Alfred D. Katz, M.D. 8631 W Third ST Los Angeles, Ca. 90048 USA
Isaac Teitelbaum, MD FACP
Professor of Medicine
Director, Acute and Home Dialysis Programs
University of Colorado Hospital
Denver, CO 80262 USA
Stanley H. Galansky, MD, Clinical Professor of Surgery and Pediatric
Urology, University of Colorado School of Medicine and The Children’s
Hospital, Denver, Colorado, USA
Michael Friedlander
Professor of Medicine,conjoint University of New South Wales
Director of Medical Oncology
The Prince of Wales Hospital
Randwick Sydney 2031 Australia
Gerald M. Weisfogel, MD, FACC, D,ABSM
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
New Brunswick, NJ. USA 08901
Mendel Tuchman M.D.
Vice Chairman for Research
Scientific Director, Children's Research Institute
Professor of Pediatrics, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Children's National Medical Center
Washington DC 20010-2970 USA
Stanley Glazer, M.D.
Secretary of the Maimonides Medical Club
Springfield, Massachusetts 01107 U.S.A.
Ronald S. Nadel MD
Springfield, Ma, USA
Steven M. Wenner, M.D., Springfield MA USA
Stanley Brosman MD
Clinical Professor of Urology
UCLA Center for the Health Sciences, USA
Ira H Monosson, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
USC Keck School of Medicine
UCLA Geffen School of Medicine, USA
Michael A. Rabovsky, M.D. Medical Director Beachwood Family Health &
Surgery Center Cleveland Clinic Beachwood, OH, USA
Marlane C. Guttmann, MD
Staff Radiologist
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Philadelphia, PA USA
Paul J. Grodan M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor
Dept. of Internal Medicine
Geffen-UCLA School of Medicine, USA
Neil Segall DO
Thornton, CO USA
Michael A. Ozer, M.D.
San Antonio, Texas, USA
Miriam Harel ,M.D. retired plastic surgeon, Newton MA, USA
Prof. Sidney Chocron, MD, PhD
Member of STS - Member of EACTS
Cardiothoracic surgery, Besancon, France
Isaac S. Kohane, MD, PhD
Henderson Associate Professor of Health Sciences and Technology
Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Director, Countway Library of Medicine
Director, HMS Center for Biomedical Informatics
Boston, MA 02115 USA
Harvey Guttmann, MD
Abington Memorial Hospital, Abington PA 19046, USA
Melvyn B. Schupack, MD, Walpole, NH, USA
J.Courant, MD, IMA-Nederlands
Arthur L. Levy MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Internal Medicine, Yale University School of
Medicine and Medical Director of Medical Oncology in New Haven,
Connecticut, USA
Brigitte Köder
MD, Anesthesiologist
Hagaziekenhuis Den Haag
SN Den Haag, Netherlands
Don Gilden, MD
Professor and Chairman
Department of Neurology
The University of Colorado School of Medicine
Denver, Colorado, USA
Professor Ashley Grossman
Dept. of Endocrinology
St. Bartholomew's Hospital
London EC1A 7BE
Great Britain
Dr. Roman M. Skoblo, Bundesverband Jüdischer Ärzte und Psychologen,
Deutschland
Shamir Tuchman, MD, MPH
Fellow - Division of Pediatric Nephrology The Children's Hospital of
Philadelphia, USA
Silvio Sperber MD
Interventional Cardiology
Memorial Hospital of South Broward
Hollywood, Florida, USA
S. Bert Litwin MD
Childrens Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA
ALVIN MARKOVITZ MD,FACP,FACOEM FAADEP ASSOC CLINICAL PROF of
MEDICINE UNIVERSITY of SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES CA. USA
David Muram, MD
Professor Emeritus
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
University of Tennessee, Memphis, USA
Gary J. Alter, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor of Plastic Surgery UCLA School of Medicine
Beverly Hills, CA. USA
Michael B. Kastan, M.D., Ph.D.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Memphis, TN USA
Robert peter gale md phd dsc (hon) facp
Exec dir clinical research
Celgene corp, Summit, NJ USA
Visiting prof haematology
Imperial College Hammersmith hospital, London, UK
Dr. Daniel Derman
Clinical Instructor of Medicine
Northwestern University of Medicine, USA
M.H.Melmed MD
Gynecologist
Englewood, Colorado, 80111, USA
Neal J Weinreb, MD, FACP Voluntary Associate Professor of Medicine,
University of Miami School of Medicine University Research Foundation for
Lysososomal Storage Diseases, Coral Springs, Florida, USA
Howard Trachtman MD
Schneider Children's Hospital
Division of Nephrology
New Hyde Park NY USA
Leonard Knell M.D. retired Orthopedic surgeon – Canton, Ohio, USA
Dr.Mark Indig M.D., Germany
Professor Jack Sobel MD
Chief Division of Infectious Diseases
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Detroit Michigan USA
Harold P. Lehmann, MD PhD
Associate Professor, Health Sciences Informatics
Joint: Pediatrics, Health Policy and Management
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD USA
Glenn M. Lipton, MD, DABPM, FIPP, DABIPP
Director, North American Interventional Pain Management, Arizona, USA
Professor J E Myers
School of Public Health & Family Medicine
Health Sciences Faculty
University of Cape Town, S. Africa
Dan Yamini, MD, Diplomate of the American Board of Surgery and
Plastic Surgery, Los Angeles, California, USA
Ran Neiger, MD
Professor of Ob/Gyn
Wright State University
Dayton, Ohio, USA
Harold N. Fisher, BSc., MD, MCFP (EM), FACEP
Warren Grossman MD
Orthopaedic Associates of South Broward
Hollywood, Fl 33021 USA
Stephen Burgher, MD, FACEP
Assistant Medical Director
Department of Emergency Medicine
Baylor University Medical Center
Dallas, Texas 75246 USA
Robert L. Levine, M.D.
Associate Professor
Neurosurgery and Emergency Medicine
The University of Texas School of Medicine at Houston, USA
Richard F. Grossman, M.D.
Attending Plastic Surgeon
The Permanente Medical Group
Walnut Creek, California, USA
D. Miller Wise, MD
Attending Plastic Surgeon
Dept Plastic Surgery
Walnut Creek, CA 94596 USA
William Silvers MD
Greenwood Medical Center
Englewood, CO 80111
United States of America
Peter Vadas MD, PhD, FRCPC, FACP
Toronto, Canada
Marjorie Curtis-Cohen, MD
CHOP Newborn Care at Holy Redeemr Hospital
Meadowbrook, Pennsylvania, USA
Professor Stephen Davis
Professor of Neurology
University of Melbourne
Royal Melbourne Hospital
Parkville, Victoria
Australia 3050
Philip D. Zinn, M.D.
Cardiology Clinic of San Antonio, USA
Dudley Seth Danoff, MD, FACS
Tower Urology
Cedars Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, Calif.,USA
Joseph R. Furman, MD
San Antonio, Texas, USA
Daniel Fink MD
Clinical Associate Professor
Wayne State University School of Medicine Detroit, Michigan, USA
Irving Katz, M.D.
Former Chief of Staff Peninsula Hospital, Burlingame, Ca 94010 USA
Michèle J. Saunders, D.M.D., M.S., M.P.H. – Professor, Division of
Geriatrics and Gerontology, Department of Medicine, University of Texas
Health Science Center at San Antonio USA
Kim Kwiatek M.D. , USA
Stephen Burgher, MD, FACEP
Assistant Medical Director
Department of Emergency Medicine
Baylor University Medical Center
Dallas, Texas 75246 USA
Dr George Hamor
MB,BS,FRACP.
Consultant Respiratory and Sleep Physician.
Sydney, Australia.
Dr. Emma Guttman-Yassky, MD/MSc, Associate Attending Physician,
Clinical Scholar, Investigative Dermatology, Rockefeller University, NY,
USA and Department of Dermatology Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
Dr Henry Pinskier
Melbourne Australia
Donald Motzkin, M.D. Woodland Hill, Ca 91364 USA
Lorne Finkelstein M.D. F.R.C.P.(C) F.A.C.C.
Cardiologist
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Barbara Schuster, MD, MACP Professor and Chair, Dept. of Internal
Medicine
Wright State University USA
Mark T. Buchman, M.D., M.Sc.(Orthopaedics), F.A.C.S.
Member American Society for Surgery of the Hand
Member American Association for Hand Surgery
Member American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery
Payman Vahedifar, M.D.
Nephrology and Hypertension
Cedars-Sinai Medical Towers
8635 W. 3rd Street Suite 865-W
Los Angeles, CA 90048 USA
Ronald M. Friedman, M.D.
Former Chief of Plastic Surgery
Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, TX, USA
Elliot Weser, MD, FACP
Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center
at San Antonio, Texas USA
Donald Motzkin, M.D. Woodland Hill, CA 91364 USA
Professor Mary Rudolf
Consultant paediatrician and Professor of Child Health Leeds Primary Care
Trust and University of Leeds Belmont House
Leeds LS2 9DE USA
Michael Stern, MD
Professor of Medicine
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
San Antonio, TX 78229-3900 USA
Lorne Finkelstein M.D. F.R.C.P.(C) F.A.C.C.
Cardiologist
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Myriam Lipovsky, MD, PhD
Utrecht/Zeist,
the Netherlands
Dr. Daniel Kollek
Associate Professor - Emergency Medicine, McMaster University
Dundas, Ontario, Canada
Jack M. Bernstein, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Wright State
University, Dayton, OH USA
Dr. David J. Katz , Attending in Charge and Director of Oral
Diagnosis-New York Hospital, USA
David Sacerdoti
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
University of Padova Italy
Roger G. Rosenstein, MD
Paramus, New Jersey USA
Herman Charles Knoll, M.D.
Internal Medicine
Associate Professor,
Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
Good Samaritan Hospital
Dayton Heart Hospital USA
Thomas Golper M.D. Vanderbil University Medical Center, Nashville,
TN, USA
Sylvia Stein M.D. Vienna,Austria
Sidney Miller, MD FACS Professor of Surgery
Director, The Ohio State University Burn Center
the Ohio State University College of Medicine
University Hospitals
Department of Surgery
Columbus, OH 43210 USA
Dr. med. Michael Schiffmann
Facharzt für HNO-Krankheiten
Plastische Operationen, Allergologie
D-60322 Frankfurt Germany
Stephen L. Stern, M.D.
Professor, Department of Psychiatry
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio USA
Mark H. Hyman, MD, FACP, FAADEP
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90025 USA
Richard J. Schuster,MD,MMM
Oscar Boonshoft Chair and Director
Center for Global Health Systems, Management, & Policy Boonshoft
School of Medicine Wright State University
Kettering, Ohio 45420 USA
Kenneth L. Zeitzer, M.D.
Interim Chairman,
Department of Radiation Oncology
Albert Einstein Medical Center
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Dr. Lyubka Tancheva, Ph.D., Assoc. Prof. in Pharmacology, Institute
of Neurobiology, Dept. Experimental Psychopharmacology, Bulgarian Academy
of Sciences Bulgaria
JP van Wouwe, MD PhD, pediatrician
Member of the Pediatric Association of the Netherlands
Overseas fellow of the Royal Society for Medicine (UK)
Netherlands organization for applied scientific research
Leiden, the Netherlands
Dr Fred Siegel
ASPS, Chesapeake, VA USA
Gary M. Youra, Past Chief of Staff, Childrens Medical Center, Dayton,
Ohio, USA
Marrick Kukin, M.D., FACC
Director, Heart Failure Program
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospitals
New York, New York 10019 USA
Dr. Ronit Zweig, PsyD, CBT, Psychologist, NY, USA
Dr. Emma Guttman-Yassky, MD/MSc, Associate Attending Physician,
Clinical Scholar, Investigative Dermatology, Rockefeller University, NY,
USA and Department of Dermatology Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
DR. Benjamin C Cohney FRCS., FRACS.,FRCSE., FACS. Emeritus Surgeon
Royal Perth Hospital, Perth Western Australia
Samuel R Bierstock, MD
Delray Beach, Florida USA
Evelyn van Pinxteren/Nagler, paediatrician,
Medical Centre Leeuwarden, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands
Robert Bloom M.D
Medical director, Opthalmology, Children Medical Center, Dayton Ohio USA
Michael Bloom M.D, Medical director, Opthalmology, Children Medical
Center, Dayton Ohio USA
Albert L. Amshel, M.D
Dr.Paul Kraus PhD.,specialist in Pediatrics The Netherlands
Kenneth T. Wals, MD
Fellow, Retina Service
UPMC Eye Center
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA USA
Donald Schon, MD, FACP
Associate Clinical Prof. Medicine
Univ. of Arizona School of Medicine
Arizona Kidney Disease and Hypertension Ctr
Phoenix, Arizona USA
Dr.Paul Kraus PhD; kinderarts
The Netherlands
James G Schwade MD FACR FACRO
Executive Director,
Cyberknife Centers of Miami & Palm Beach
Clinical Prof. of Radiation Oncology & Former Chairman, Dept. of Rad.
Onc., UM Miller Sch. of Med.
Adjunct Prof. of Biomedical Engineering, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering,
Florida International University USA
Marilyn J. Heine, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine and
Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Carol E. Rose, M.D.
Department of Anesthesiology
UPMC - Presby Room C-204
200 Lothrop Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
Scot D. Paris, MD, FACS
General Surgeon
Pennsylvania, USA
Arlin J.Silberman, DO,Clinical Associate Professor of
Psychiatry,Drexel University College of Medicine, Phila., Pa, USA
Daniel Navot MD Professor and Chief, Division of Reproductive
Endocrinology New York Medical College USA
Dr Robert Luder
Consultant Physician,
North Middlesex University Hospital London UK
Sanford H. Herman, MD
Emergency Medicine
Clarksville, TN USA
J Greenbaum MD FRCPC
Assissant Professor of Medicine McMaster Medical School
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Newton D. Scherl, M.D. Chief Gastroenterology, Englewood Hospital,
Englewood, NJ USA
Gary Berman,M.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
Lyndon E. Mansfield MD
Director
Western Sky Medical Research
El Paso Texas 79902 USA
Leonard Cohen, M.D., Ph.D.
West Hartford, CT 06107 USA
Gary N. Gross, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Dallas, Texas USA
Herbert Blumer,md, Canada
Dr.Mair Nae, Turkey
Steven F. Weinstein, M.D.
Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics University of California at
Irvine, USA
Paul Shapero, M. D.
Bangor, ME 04401 USA
Alan Wanderer, M.D.USA
Sheldon Spector, MD
Clinical Prof of Medicine, USA
Samuel B. Lehrer, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70112 USA
Jack M. Becker, MD
Director of Allergy
St. Christopher's Hospital for Children
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Drexel University College of Medicine USA
Ronald Fields, MD Cardiologist, Langhorne, Pa, USA
Michael Z. Blumberg, M.D., MSHA
Managing Partner and Director of Clinical Research
Virginia Adult and Pediatric Allergy and Asthma
Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
Virginia Commonwealth University, U.S.A
Jonathan D. Field, MD
New York, NY USA
Donald W Aaronson MD JD MPH
Executive Director
Joint Council of Allergy Asthma and Immunology USA
GILBERT LANOFF M.D.
Lewis J Kanter,MD
Director, Allergy Care Center, USA
Dr. Eugene I. Sacks
Retired General Surgeon, Nashville, Tennessee USA
Antonio Piga M.D., Prof. of Forensic Medicine and Bioethics.
Universidad de Alcalá (Madrid) Spain
Evan B. Dreyer, MD, PhD, FACS
Assoc Professor, Harvard (retired).USA
Michael M. Frank, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Duke University
Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710 USA
I. Leonard Bernstein,M.D. Professor of Medicine
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati,Ohio, USA
Robert E. Braitman, M.D. F.A.A.P.
Pediatric Associates of Norwood & Franklin, P.C., USA
Joel H. Selter, M.D., USA
Robert Goldman, MD, FAAAAI, FAAP
Hudson Valley Asthma & Allergy Associates
Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520 USA
Phil Lieberman, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
University of Tennesse - College of Medicine USA
Howard J. Schwartz, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Medicine,
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Joel Freeman M.B.B.S. F.R.A.C.P. Consultant Paediatrician
Kenneth L. Zeitzer, M.D.
Interim Chairman,
Department of Radiation Oncology
Albert Einstein Medical Center
Philadelphia, PA, USA
May 21, 2007
In a letter published in The Guardian in April, a group of British doctors
called for a boycott of the Israeli Medical Association (IMA) and its
expulsion from the World Medical Association (WMA) for allegedly failing
to uphold international medical ethical standards in the Palestinian
territories.
We, the representatives of medicine in Israel, categorically deny these
accusations and wish to take a stand in support of the IMA and humane
medical treatment for all in Israel.
It is all too clear that Dr. Derek Summerfield is once again feeding his
own personal, systematic dislike of Israel and will persist in doing so
regardless of the truth.
As for Dr. David Halpin, if the best he can do is quote Amira Hass: Life
Under Israeli Occupation – published August 26, 2001 in The Independent,
at the height of the Intifida, we suggest he undertakes a more up-to-date
and thorough study of the situation, as described below.
Unfortunately, the other signatories were presumably unaware of the
reality of the situation. We would therefore like to clarify some facts
and provide an incomplete sampling of health activity aimed at helping the
Palestinian population: 2,346 Palestinian children with birth defects were
treated last year in Israeli hospitals (up from 1,604 in 2005), 29, 919
Palestinian patients were granted permits to undergo medical treatments in
hospitals in Israel (up from 24,076 in 2005), and 1,600 Palestinian
emergency patients were transferred by ambulance from the PA to hospitals
in Israel (up from 800 in 2005).
We would also like to reiterate what was expressed in a recent IMA letter:
The IMA is not, and has never been, the ‘executive arm of the Israeli
establishment.' It is an apolitical organization that, like every other
national medical organization, concerns itself with medical and health
issues and not the establishment or support of any sort of political
policy.
The IMA has continuously called for funds to be transferred [to the PA]
not in kind but in the form of food and medicine so that help could be
given where it is truly needed.
In addition to the above, hundreds or thousands of Palestinian patients
receive medical care in Israel each year, usually at a cost absorbed by
the Israeli government. As an example, in 2004, NIS 36, 645, 507
(approximately 8, 143, 446 USD at the time) of PA debts to Israeli
hospitals were offset. The IMA has intervened on occasions where a patient
was about to be evicted from an Israeli hospital for lack of funds. The
IMA has also intervened on many occasions of Palestinian patients,
physicians, and medical students who encountered difficulties at Israeli
checkpoints, including petitions to the High Court of Justice on certain
matters. Israeli doctors learn and work side by side with their Arab
colleagues, treating both Jewish and Arab patients, Israeli and
Palestinian. Sometimes these very same dedicated physicians meet their
death at the hands of terrorists, leaving their Palestinian patients to
wonder who will care for them.
The organization has, at several points in the past, attempted to meet
with its Palestinian counterparts in an effort to foster mutual
cooperation and better understanding, including the release of a joint
statement. Almost none of these meetings have taken place, because of
refusal on the Palestinian side.
In addition to the above, there are numerous collaborative health care
initiatives taking place at any time. The First International Congress on
Chronic Disorders in Children was attended in April by 300 Israeli and 100
Palestinian doctors and the First Middle East Symposium on Dental Medicine
represented a further expression of the relationship launched between the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Al-Quds University.
Under the Israeli program "Save a Child's Heart", doctors at Wolfson
Hospital repair congenital heart defects for children from the Palestinian
territories, Iraq, Jordan and Africa; more than 1,000 children, about half
from Gaza and the occupied West Bank, have been helped so far by the
program.
Teams at Bethlehem University and at Tel-Aviv University have worked
together to investigate the genetic causes of deafness. A new graduate
program will enable Palestinian students to pursue post-graduate research
in this field at Tel-Aviv University .
Jerusalem's Hadassah hospital has trained Palestinian physicians and
nurses in cancer treatments, and staff from this hospital and Palestinian
hospitals exchange ideas and information on an ongoing basis.
It saddens us greatly to see and hear of Palestinian civilians receiving
inadequate health care, including in Gaza, from which Israel unilaterally
withdrew in 2006. It saddens us that funds transferred to the Palestinian
leadership are often used for guns and bombs instead of for hospitals and
medicines. It saddens us that terrorists kill or maim our civilians,
kidnap our soldiers, rain missiles on Israeli cities, and then hide among
civilians and civilian structures such as hospitals. And it pains us that
terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians (including terrorists posing as ill
people in need of medical care) result in security measures that sometimes
cause hardship to innocent Palestinians. We do our best to help whenever
possible, despite these constraints, and have often called for a
separation of political and humane issues, so that no one suffers from the
current conflict.
The “facts” expressed in the letter of the Palestinian organizations
calling for a boycott of the IMA, are a far cry from reality. It is our
hope that your readers will form unbiased opinions and recognize the steps
that Israeli doctors are taking to improve the health and treatment of all
peoples, regardless of race or religion. Those who have preconceived
opinions will undoubtedly stick with them. But for those who want the
truth, we have attempted to present it. However, unlike our accusers, who
present nameless numbers of supporters, we are proud to be associated with
the Israeli Medical Association and willingly supply our details.
Sincerely,
Dr. Yoram Blachar, President, IMA
Prof. Shai Ashkenazi, Chairman, Scientific Council, IMA & Director
Pediatrics A, Schneider Children's Medical Center, Israel
Professor Shmuel C. Shapira MD MPH, Hadassah Deputy Director General
Director Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health
Dr. Jacob Yahav , Director, Kaplan Medical Center
Prof. Zvi Zemishlany, Director - Geha Mental Health Center
Meir Oren M.D., M.Sc., M.P.H Director – General, The Hillel - Yaffe
Medical Center
Zvi Stern m.d.Director Hadassah Medical Center- Mt. Scopus
Prof. Jacob Hart, Director (CEO), Loewenstein Hospital Rehabilitation
Center, Raanana, Israel
Dr. Orna Blondheim, Director, Haemak Medical Center, Afula
Dr. Raphi Pollack, Medical Director, Bikur Cholim Hospital, Jerusalem
SCHARF SHIMON M.D.,M.P.H., Director of the Barzilai Med. Ctr.Ashkelon
Yehuda Baruch MD MHA, Director General, Abarbanel Mental Health Center,
Israel
Amos Etzioni MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Immunology
Director - Meyer Children's Hospital, Bat- Galim, Haifa
Nicky Liebermann M.D., Head – Community Medical Division, "Clalit"
Health Services, Israel
Prof. Ron Dagan, Director, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Unit
Soroka University Medical Center, Beer Sheva, Israel
Yehezkel Caine M.D., M.Sc. Director General, Herzog Hospital
Dr. Itzhak (Tzaki) Siev-Ner, Head of Orthopedic Rehabilitation, Sheba
Medical Center, Israel
Prof. David Branski, M.D, Chairman of Pediatrics, Hadassah University
Hospitals, Jerusalem
Amos Etzioni MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Immunology, Director - Meyer
Children's Hospital
PROF. HANOCH HOD MD, DIRECTOR ICCU SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER, ISRAEL
Ehud Raanani, MD, Head of Cardiac Surgery, Sheba Medical Center, Israel
Dr.Zeev Feldman, Head of pediatric Neurology, Sheba Medical Center,
Israel
Prof. Aaron Lerner, Head Child Nutrition Unit, Carmel Hospital
Prof. Arie Lindner, Head, Dept. of Urology, Asaf Harofeh Medical
Center & Vice Chairman of the Scientific Council, IMA
Eliezer Shalev M.D, Associate Dean, Rappaport faculty of medicine
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Professor and Chairman, Department Of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Haemek
medical Center, Afula Israel
President, Israel Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Shaul Sofer,M.D., Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, Lubner Family
Chair in Child Health & Development, Ben-Gurion University of the
Negev
Yoseph A. Mekori M.D., Professor of Medicine, Dean, Sackler Faculty of
Medicine, Tel Aviv University
Henry Silver MBBS, BMedSci, DPM, FRANZCP Associate Professor, Bruce
Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Deputy Director Sha'ar Menashe Mental Health Centre, Israel
Prof. Bernard Belhassen, Director, Cardiac Electrophysiology
Laboratory, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Batya Kristal, MD, MHA, FASN, Assoc. Professor of Medicine, Head,
Department of Nephrology & Hypertension, Western Galilee Hospital
Kluger Yoram MD, FACS, Department of Surgery B, Rambam Medical Center,
Haifa, Israel
Prof. Gil Lugassy, Chairman, Israeli Hematology Association
Dr. Ohad Birk, Head, Genetics Institute, Soroka Medical Center, Israel
Dr. Gerald M.Fraser MD,FRCP, Director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Unit, Deputy-Director Department of Gastroenterology, Rabin Medical Center
Prof Alexander Battler, MD, FACC, FESC, Director of Cardiology Rabin
Medical Center
Francis B Mimouni, MD, FAAP, FACN
Professor of Pediatrics, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel
Chief of Staff, the Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
President, Israeli Pediatric Association
Prof. Keren Gad MD, Head Dept. Cardiology, Tel-Aviv Medical Center
Incumbent –Chaim Sheba Chair of Cardiology
Santiago Richter, M.D., Head, Endourology Service, Meir Medical Center,
Kfar Sava, Israel
Professor Ami Schattner
Batia Yaffe M.D, Head Department of Hand Surgery and Microsurgery Unit,
Sheba Medical Center
Dr. Krimchansky Benzy. Head of the ICU for Head Trauma patients.
Loewenshtein Rehabilitation Center,. Raanana, Israel
Dr Modi Naftali, Poria Medical Center
Dr M S Monnickendam MD, Family Physician, Hadera, Israel
Yosef Uziel MD, MSc, Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Head- Ambulatory Day Unit, Medical Education Unit, Pediatric Rheumatology
Department of Pediatrics, Meir Medical Center, Kfar-Saba, Israel
Yehuda A. Schwarz, MD, Senior Deputy Director of Pulmonary Medicine
Dep., Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Ari Zimran, MD, Director, Gaucher Clinic, Shaare Zedek Medical Center
Ass. Professor of Medicine, Hebrew University and Haddassah School of
Medicine
Yehuda L. Danon M.D., Professor of Medicine, Schneider Childrens
Medical Center
Prof Ami Schattner
Judith Heyd MD, Head, Hematology Unit, Shaare Zedek Medical Center,
Jerusalem
Dr. Darwin Telias, Mental Health Center Beer-Sheva and "Matara"
Addicitions Treatment Center, Ben Gurion University
Ephraim Rimon, MD
Head Geriatric Department E, F, Harzfeld Medical Center, Gedera
Prof. Joel Sayfan, Head of Department of Surgery, Haemek Medical
Center
Pinchas Halpern, MD, Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, Tel
Aviv Medical Center, Israel
Dr. Meir Weisbrod, Director of the Neonatology/Prematurity Department,
Laniado Hospital, Netanya, Israel
Yehuda Limony MD MSc, Child Health Center-Kiriat Gat And Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev, Beer Sheva
Eran Leitersdorf, MD, Professor of Internal Medicine, Chair in
Molecular Genetics, Head, Department of Medicine B, Director, Center for
Research, Prevention and Treatment
of Atherosclerosis, Hadassah University Hospital
Dean D. Ad-El MD Head, Department of Plastic Surgery & Burns
Rabin Medical Center
Dr. Avi Cohen, Head, Neurosurgery Dept., Soroka Medical Center
Prof. Chaim Lotan, Director, Heart Institute, Chair in Cardiology,
Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center
Hadary Amram MD, Head, Trauma Unit ,”Ziv” Hospital, Safed
Pnina Green, M.D., Ph.D., The Laboratory for the Study of Fatty Acids
The Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University,
And Department of Internal Medicine B, Rabin Medical Center
Dr. Dror Soffer, Head, Trauma Unit, Tel Aviv Medical Center
Prof. Gideon Uretzky, M.D., Chairman, Dept. of Cardiothoracic
Surgery,
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center & Sackler School of Medicine, Tel
Aviv University,
Tel Aviv, Israel
David Pauzner M.D., Deputy Head, Obgyn Wing, Sourasky Medical Center
Dr. Yitzchak Halperin, Barzili Medical Center
Prof. Arie Herman, Head of Ob/Gyn, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center
Dr Shimoni Zvi, Head of Internal Med B Department and Infectious
Disease Unit, Laniado Hospital, Netanya
DR SASSON NAKAR
Dr Ezra Yehiel, Family Physician, Clalit Health Services, Afula
DR YAGEV YARON, OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE SPECIALIST, DIRECTOR OF MACCABI
OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE CLINIC IN THE NEGEV
Zalman Weintraub, MD. Neonatology Nahariya
Michael SOUDRY M.D., Professor and Chairman, Division of Orthopaedics
and Department of Orthopaedic Surgery A, Rambam Medical Center
Professor Eugene Libson, Hadassah Univ.Hospital, Hebrew University
School of Medicine
Dr. Roberto Michan, Pediatrician
Yaacov Jack Ashkenazi md head of adult internal medecine and
hematology day care shaare zedek medical center jerusalem
Dr. Ido Olsha, Head of Department of General Surgery, Yoseftal Hospital
– Eilat
Dr Suzy Ronen, Sharei Zedek Medical Center
Morris Mosseri, Cardiology Institute, Meir Medical Center, Kfar Saba
Dr. Doron Kopelman, Head, Surgery B, Haemek Medical Center
Aroeh Eden MD, Director of Research, Computing and Quality assurance.
Department of Anesthesia and CCM Carmel Medical Center
Professor Uri Seligsohn, Sheba Medical Center
Ofer Nativ MD., Prof. & Chairman Department of Urology, Bnai-Zion
Medical Center
Prof' Joseph Ribak, Tel Aviv University
Dr Moshe Hersch, MD, MSc, Director of ICU, Shaare Zedek Medical Center,
Jerusalem
Senior Lecturer, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Prof. Moshe Hod, Director, Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Helen
Schneider Hospital for Women, Rabin Medical Center
Boris Finkel, M.D.
Head of Psychogeriatric Ward
Head of Holocaust Residence
Lev HaSharon Mental Heath Center
Dr. Gal-Moscovici Anca, Nephrology and Hypertension Services
Bone Research Laboratory, Hadassah University, Jerusalem
Prof Avry Chagnac, MD, Rabin Medical Center- Hasharon Hospital
Prof. Z.H. Rappaport, Director, Dept. of Neurosurgery, Rabin Medical
Center
Professor Mauro Rathaus, Meir Medical Center
PROF. SHOENFELD YEHUDA, MD.FRCP, Head, Department of Medicine 'B' and
Center for Autoimmune Diseases, Sheba Medical Center
Vardiella Meiner, M.D.Dept of Human Genetics, Hadassah University
Hospital, Jerusalem
Prof. Daniel Benharroch, Head of Hematopathology Unit, Dept. of
Pathology,
Soroka Medical Center, Beer-Sheva.
Ofer Z. Shenfeld MD., Chairman of Urology, Shaare Zedek Medical
Center
Nathaniel Laor, Professor of Psychiatry, Behavioral Science and
Philosophy,
Tel Aviv University
Dr. Charach Gideon
Dr. Pesach Lichtenberg, Herzog Hospital, and the Hadassah Medical
School—Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Zohar Barzilay MD FCCM, Professor of Pediatrics, Sheba Medical Center
Prof. N. Gadoth Chairman Adult & Pediatric Neurology
- MA`AYNEI-HAYESHUA Medical Center, Israel
OZ YUVAL MD
Ob & Gyn specialist
Chief Ultrasound Unit Safed Hospital, Israel
DR ZEHAVA ALON, GENERAL PRACTITIONER, Israel
Gilutz Harel M.D, Director of Intensive Coronary Care Unit.
DR. VERA FRIED,- . Internal Medicine and Geriatrics
Geriatric Dep. Soroka University Hospital Beer Sheba
Assistant director, Cardiology Department, Ben-Gurion University,
Faculty of Health Sciences, Soroka University Medical Center
Michael Hoffman, MD
Deputy Chief Director
Department of Internal Medicine A, Tell Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel
Aviv, Israel
Prof. Haim Bibi MD, Head Pediatric Department, Carmel Medical Center,
Haifa
Shmuel Yurman MD, Head Neonatal Department & NICU Hillel Yaffe Medical
Center
Prof. Moshe Roffman, Head of Orthopaedic Depart., Carmel Medical Center
and Medical Faculty – Technion, Haifa
Amir Vardi MD, Director ECMO program
Department of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine SAFRA Children's Hospital
SHEBA Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer Affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of
Medicine, Tel-Aviv University ISRAEL
Ehud Melzer M.D, Head Department of Gastroenterology & Liver
Disease
Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, ISRAEL
Professor Eugene Libson MD.FRCR, Hadassah Medical Center
Prof. Meller, Director- National Unit of Orthopedic Oncology, Tel Aviv
Sourasky Medical Center
Hillel Halkin MD, Professor of Medicine, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel
Aviv University
Prof. Shimon Meretyk, Head of Urology Dept., Rambam Medical Center,
Israel
Prof. Israel Potasman, Director, Infectious Dis., Bnai Zion Med. Ctr.,
Haifa
Dr. Chanan Tauber, Former president of the Israel Orthopedic Association
A. Mark Clarfield, MD, FRCPC, Head of Geriatrics, Soroka Hospital.
Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University.
Shai Brill M.D, Beit Rivka Geriatric Rehabilitation Hospital
Lawrence M. Loewenthal, MD Medical Consultant to Ophthalmologists in
Haifa, Poriyah, Israel
Moshe Hadani M.D. Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery
Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
Dr Ilan Treves, Head, Open Ward B, Shalvata Mental Health Center,
Israel
Prof Yuval Yaron, Head of Prenatal Genetic Diagnosis Unit, Tel Aviv
Sourasky Medical Center
Dr. Ido Olsha, Head of Department of General Surgery, Yoseftal
Hospital – Eilat
Dr. Moshe Kostiner m.d specialists clinic manager, Israel
Joseph Itskovitz-Eldor, MD DSc,Director, Department of Obstetrics and
Gynecology, Rambam Medical Center & Director, Stem Cell Center Bruce
Rappaport Faculty of Medicine Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Haim Ring MD, MSc PMR, Professor and Chairman,
Neurological Rehabilitation Dept.Loewenstein Rehabilitation Center
Efraim Halperin MD, DTM&H, FACP, Director, Unit of Infectious Diseases
Bikur Cholim Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
Dr. Jacob Atsmon, Head, Clinical Pharmacology Unit, Director, Clinical
Research Center
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Dr. Alona Paz, Infectious diseases specialist
Infectious diseases unit, Bnai Zion Medical Center, Haifa
Dr Ilan Treves
Prof. D. Hochner, Head of Maternity Unit, Dept. of Obstetrics and
Gynecology, Hadassah Mount Scopus, Jerusalem
Gadi Shaked, MD, Department of Surgery, Trauma Unit, Soroka
University Medical Center
Prof. H. Matzkin, Head of Urology Dept., Tel Aviv Medical Center
Shlomo Keidar MD, Rambam Medical Center
HERSHKOVICH JACOB MD, SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER, BEER-SHEVA , ISRAEL
Jacob Arad M.D, Director of Emergency Dept,.Joseftal Hospital, Eilat
Israel
Prof. Michael Glikson, MD, FACC, FESC, Director of Pacing and
Electrophysiology
Heart Institute, Sheba Medical Center
Dr. Arieh Markel, Head, Internal Medicine A, Haamek Medical Center,
Afula
Dr. Gershon Fink, Head of Pulmonary Institute
Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, Chairman of the Israel society of
Pulmonology
Prof. Amos M. Cohen, Hematology Unit, Hasharon Hospital Rabin Medical
Center
Juza Chen, MD, Director of Sexual Dysfunction Clinic, Department of
Urology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Dr. Zvi Davidovich
Prof. Ilana Ariel, MD, PhD, Head, Perinatal Pathology Unit, The Hadassah-
Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem
Dr. Shimon Rochkind, Specialist in Neurosurgery & Microsurgery,
Director, Division of Peripheral Nerve Reconstruction, Tel Aviv Sourasky
Medical Center
Oscar H. Kracoff, MD, Cardiologist, Director of ICCU, Kaplan Medical
Center
Rehovot, Israel
Dr. Naomi Rahimi-Levene, Head, Blood Bank, Asaf Harofeh Medical
Center
Eran Segal, MD, Director, General ICU, Sheba Medical Center
Michael Giladi, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Acting Director,
the Infectious Disease Unit, Director, The Bernard Pridan Laboratory for
Molecular Biology of Infectious Diseases
Tel Aviv Medical Center
DR MICHAEL BENNETT, MB BS FRCP FRCPath CONSULTANT HAEMATOLOGIST
Yehuda Ullmann, Acting Head, Plastic Surgery Dept, .Rambam.Medical
Center
Eli M Eisenstein, M.D., Department of Pediatrics, Hadassah-Hebrew
University Medical Center
Prof. Simcha Yagel, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Centers
Professor Tamir Ben-Hur, M.D., Ph.D., Head, Department of Neurology,
Hadassah - Hebrew University Medical Center
Dr Spector Gregory, MD. PhD, Head of Urology Unit Joseftal Hospital
Eilat, Israel
Yaron Lang, MD, Head, Dept. of Ophthalmology
Ha'Emek Medical Center, Afula, Israel
Prof Zvi Zadik, Director, Pediatric Endocrine Unit, Kaplan Medical
Center
Chairman Israeli Pediatric Endocrine Associatiion
Fred M Konikoff, MD, MSc., Professor of Medicine, Head, Dept of
Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Meir Medical Center
Dov Inbar, MD, Schneider Children's Medical Center
Dr. Itzhak Rosner, Director of Rheumatology, Bnai Zion Medical Center
Raphael Catane MD, Professor & Chairman, Department of Oncology, Sheba
Medical Center
David Jonathan van Dijk, MD, Specialist in Internal Medicine and
Nephrology
Director of the Diabetic Nephropathy Clinic, Department of Nephrology and
Hypertension, Rabin Medical Center
Eli Konen M.D., Head of Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Sheba Medical
Center
Professor Elihu D richter MD MPH
Hebrew Univ-Hadassah SChool of Public Health Jerusalem
Prof. Alex Simon, Director of IVF Center, Hadassah University
Hospital, Jerusalem
Dr. Haim Shtarker, Head, Orthopedic Unit, Nahariya Medical Center
Dr Kleinman Yosef, Head of Internal Medicine, Bikur Cholim Hospital,
Jerusalem
Davidovitch Michael MD, Chairman of the Israeli Organization for Child
Development and Rehabilitation
Dr. Simon M. Schlanger,M.D.; Oncologist, Israel
T. Tichler, M.D., Chief, Oncology Inpatient Ward, Davidoff Cancer
Center, Beilinson Hospital
Treasurer of the Israeli Oncology and Radiotherapy Association
Dr Michael Gdalevich, Barzilai Medical Center, Ashkelon
Prof. Uri Kramer. Director, Pediatric Epilepsy Service, Tel Aviv
Sourasky Medical Center
Dr. Yona Yaniv
The Israel Society for surgery of the hand Chairperson
Hand surgeon - the hand surgery department Sheba hospital
Orthopedic surgeon
member - Physicians for human rights
Prof. Zvi Ram, Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, Tel Aviv Medical
Center
Dr Alon Reshef, Head of psychiatric outpatient clinic, Afula. Israel
Dr. Nissim Razon, Neurosurgeon, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Haim Gutman, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of Surgery
Tel Aviv University, Sackler School of Medicine.
Head, Surgical Oncology Service, Rabin Medical Center
Dr. Yosef MANOR, Head of Hematology, Meir Medical Center and Tel Aviv
University
Dr Mariana Steiner, Head of Oncology Service, Carmel Hospital, Haifa
David Huminer M.D., Rabin Medical Center
Ernst Voss MD, Gynaecologist , Hadassah University Hospital , Jerusalem
Prof. Moshe Garty MD MSC.FACP(MON) Head of Recanati Center for Medicin -
Research Beilinson campus Rabin Medicial Center, Israel
Dr. Yacov Fogelman, "Leumit" HMO
Sergey Preisman, M.D., Director of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia Unit, Sheba
Medical Center, Tel Hashomer
Dr. Haim Bitterman, President of the Israel Association of Internal
Medicine
Dr. Menahem Fisher, Deputy Chairman, Israeli Gynecology Association
Dr Igal Hekselman MD MHA-Medical Director, Health insurance system
& Clalit Mushlam
Miriam Zalish MD, Head, Glaucoma Unit, Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot
Prof. Yehuda G. Wolf, M.D., Head, Dept. of Vascular Surgery, Tel Aviv
Sourasky Medical Center
Alexander Kantarovsky MD, Vascular Surgery, Hillel Yaffe Medical
Center
Dr. Michael Stein, Head, Trauma Unit, Rabin Medical Center &
Chairman, Israeli Trauma Association
Marc Brezins, Cardiologist, Head of Cath. Lab. Western Galilee
Hospital Nahariya USA
Professor David Greenberg, Herzog Hospital, Jerusalem
Prof Amos Katz, M.D., Director, Department of Cardiology, Barzilai Medical
Center, Ashkelon, & Associate Dean for student Affairs, Faculty of
Health Sciences Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Nachum Soroker, M.D., Chairperson, Israel Society of Physical and
Rehabilitation Medicine
Head, Department of Neurological Rehabilitation, Loewenstein
Rehabilitation Hospital, Raanana
Shmuel Reis MD, MHPE, Head, Department of Medical Education, Faculty
of Medicine
The Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
Professor Alain Berrebi, Head, Hematology Institute,
Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, Israel.
Zemach Eisenstein M.D., Endocrine consultant, "Maccabi" Health
services, Israel
Head of Pediatrics, Medical Division in the Community, Clalit Medical
Services, Israel
Ronni Wolf, MD, Assoc. Clin. Prof. of Dermatology, Head, Dermatology
Unit
Kaplan Medical Center, Rechovot
Prof. Benjamin Brenner, Director, Thrombosis and Hemostasis Unit,
Dept. of Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation, Rambam Medical
Center, Haifa
Prof. Raanan Shamir, Head, Pediatric gastroenterology and Nutrition,
Meyer Children's hospital of Haifa, Rith and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of
Medicine, Technion-Institute of Technology, Israel
Prof. Ron Maymon, Department OB/GYN, Assaf Harofe Medical Center
& Tel Aviv university
Prof. Shmuel Kivity, Israel
Dr. Shlomo Moshe – Maccabi Health Services
Dr. Michal Tavor - Maccabi Health Services
Dr. Yair Barak - Maccabi Health Services
Dr. Michal Shilo - Maccabi Health Services
Professor Esther Paran, Head, Hypertension Unit, Soroka University
Hospital, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheba, Israel
Prof. Patrick Sorkine, Head of Intensive Care Unit, Sourasky Medical
Center, Tel Aviv
Prof. Eliezer Kitai, Head, Dept Family Medicine, Leumit HMO, Dept. Family
Medicine , Tel-Aviv University
Mario Sztern M.D, Head of the Emergency Medicine Department, Meir
Medical Center
Kfar Saba
Dr. Meira Berger, Head of the department of family medicine A,
Maccabi Health Services
Israel
Gerry Leisman, MD, PhD, Director & Professor
The F. R. Carrick Institute for Clinical Ergonomics, Rehabilitation &
Applied Neuroscience of Leeds Metropolitan University & Professor,
University of Haifa
Ian Miskin MD, Specialist in Family Medicine, Infectious Disease
Consultant, Jerusalem
Dr. STOLIN MARINA, Clalit Health Services, Israel
Boris Yoffe MD FACS, Head Department, General and Vascular Surgery,
Barzilai Medical Center, Ashkelon, Israel
Prof. Rephael Zeltser, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem
Dr Leon Joseph, IDF medical Corps, Israel
Prof. Jochanan E. Naschitz, Technion, Haifa
Baruch Brenner, MD, Gastrointestinal Oncology Unit, Head, Davidoff
Cancer Center
Rabin Medical Center
Dror Ovadia, MD, Orthopaedic surgeon, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Ron Arnon, M.D, Institute of Gastroenterology, Hadassah Medical
Center
Jerusalem, Israel
Prof. Gilad Ben-Baruch, Director
Department of Gynecologic-Oncology, Sheba Medical Center
Tel-Hashomer, Israel
Dan M. Fliss MD, President of the Israeli Society of
Otorhinolaryngology /
Head & Neck Surgery, Professor and Chairman
Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center Tel Aviv 64239, ISRAEL
Dr. Eli Shahak MD Soroka MEDICAL CENTER, Israel
A. Mark Clarfield, MD, FRCPC, Head of Geriatrics, Soroka Hospital.
Sidonie Hecht Professor of Geriatrics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-
Gurion University.
Dr. Michael Koffler, Director, The Diabetes Unit, Tel-Aviv Medical
Center, Ichilov Hospital, Tel Aviv
Dr Suzy Ronen, Sharei Zedek Medical Center
Prof Raphael Breuer, MD, Head, Inst of Pulmonary Medicine & Lung
Biology Laboratory
Hadassah - Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
ASA LEV-EL M.D ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON, DIRECTOR OF ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY
DEPT, R.SIEFF HOSPITAL, SAFED
Nathan I Cherny MBBS FRACP FRCP
Medical Oncologist and Director of Palliative Care
Dept Oncology
Shaare Zedek Medical Centre
Jerusalem ISRAEL
Jacob Pe'er, M.D.
Professor and Chairman
Department of Ophthalmology
Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center
Jerusalem, Israel
Avigdor Mandelberg, MD.
Director, Pediatric Pulmonary Unit
The Department of Pulmonary Medicine and Pediatrics
The Edith Wolfson Medical Center,
Affiliate with the Sackler school of medicine, Tel-Aviv University Israel.
62, Halochamim Street, Holon 58100, ISRAEL
Prof. Lior Rosenberg, MD. Chairman of the Department of Plastic &
Reconstructive Surgery Soroka University Medical Center, The Ben Gurion
University, Beer Sheva and Chairman of The Unit for Cleft Lip, Palate
& Craniofacial Deformities Meir Hospital, Kfar Saba, Israel
Dr. Z. Davidovich, Clalit Health Services, Israel
Joseph Faber, MD, Former (retired) Head, Division of Pediatric
Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, Shaare Zedek
Medical Center, Jerusalem
Prof. Josef Elidan, Chairman, Otolaryngology/Head & Neck
Surgery, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem
Dr Beloosesky Yichayaou, Head Geriatric Department, Rabin Medical
Ceter
Petach Tikva, Israel
Shay Pintov M.D – Israel
Paul Sagiv MD, MSc, Head, Hand Surgery Unit, Meir Medical Center
Kfar Saba, Israel
Segal Karl, M.D.Deputy Head Dept. of Otolaryngology @ Head and Neck
Surgery, RABIN MEDICAL CENTER, Israel
Meyer Lifschitz M.D. , Adult Nephrologist, Shaare Zedek Medical
Center, Jerusalem and Professor Emeritus, University of Texas Health
Science Center at San Antonio, Texas
Daniel Landau, MD, Director, Pediatrics Department A, Head, Pediatric
Nephrology Unit, Soroka university Medical Center, Beer Sheva, 84101,
Israel
Prof. Gershon Holcberg, Soroka University Medical Center, Israel
Dr Ellenbogen Adrian, Director, IVF Unit, Hillel Yaffe Medical Centre,
Hadera ISRAEL
Dr. Zeev Goldik, Head of Post Anaesthesia Care Unit
Lady Davis Carmel Medical Centre, Haifa- Israel
Galia Barkai MD, Pediatric Dept., Soroka University Medical Center, Beer-
Sheva
Dr. Juza Chen, Urology Dept, Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv
Dr Anthony S. Luder MB BS., MRCP(UK), Director Paediatrics and Genetics,
Ziv Medical Centre, Safed
Zvi Borochowitz, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Medical Genetics
Director, The Simon Winter Institute for Human Genetics, Bnai-Zion Medical
Center,
Technion-Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Haifa
Dr B Rapoport , Maccabi HMO and Dept of Family Medicine , Tel-Aviv
University
Edgar Pick, M.D.,Ph.D, Professor
Director, the Julius Friedrich Cohnheim - Minerva Center for Phagocyte
Research Head, the Ela Kodesz Institute of Host Defense against Infectious
Diseases Incumbent, the Roberts-Guthman Chair in Immunopharmacology
Sackler School of Medicine Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
Ze'ev Shenkman, MD
Pediatric Anesthesiologist
Department of Anesthesiology C
Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan, Israel
Dr M Wisnovitz, Specialist Family Physician, Maccabi Health Services,
Eilat
Avraham Rivkind , M.D., Head, Dept. of General Surgery & Shock Trauma
Unit Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
Isac Bloch M.D., HaEmek Medical Center, Head and Neck Surgery, Afula,
Israel
Noam Goldstein, M.D., Head, Pulmonary Disease Unit And Regional
Tuberculosis Center,Naharia Hospital, Naharia, Israel
Dr. Miriam A. Hahn, Israel
Batia Weiss, MD, Pediatric Gastroenterology, Safra Children's Hospital,
Tel Hashomer, and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-
Aviv
Dr. Shmuel Anderman, Director, Division of Gynecological Surgery
& Endoscopy, Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Israel
Francis Salamon M.D.Vice-chief Department of Medicine D'Beilinson
Campus Rabin Medical Center, Israel
Ron Rabinowitz,MD, Director ultrasound unit, OBGYN, Shaare Zedek Med
Center, Jerusalem
abraham greenberg, md, faap, developmental pediatrics, Israel
Dr. Joseph Berger, Kiryat Bialik Israel
Prof. Rafael Bruck, Dept. of Gastroenterology, Tel Aviv Sourasky
Medical Center
Marion Sztern M.D, Emergency Medicine Dept Head, Meir Medical Center
Kfar Saba Israel
Dr. Wanda Reichstein Gonda, Vice President of the Brazilian IMA
Chapter
Dr. Simon Nadel, Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care, St Mary's
Hospital, London, UK
Danuta Wasserman Professor MD PhD
Jerzy Wasserman Professor MD. PhD.
Ralph Rosenberg MAssistant, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of
Connecticut,
USA
Professor Michael Baum ChM, FRCS, MD, FRCR Hon. Professor emeritus of
Surgery and visiting professor of medical humanities
University College London, The Portland Hospital, London, UK
David Reifler, MD, Clinical Professor of Surgery/Ophthalmology,
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, Grand Rapids,
Michigan, USA
Ronny Meier, M.D., FACOG, Teaneck New Jersey, USA, (OB_GYN)
Efrat Meier-Ginsberg, FACOG, Bergenfield, New Jersey, USA, (OB GYN)
Howard Goodman, M.D., New-York, N.Y. USA, (Orthopedist)
Karen Goodman, M.D., New-York, N.Y., USA, (Pediatrician)
Michael C. Lewis MD, Associate Professor, Clinical Anesthesiology
Program Director, Anesthesiology Miller School of Medicine, University of
Miami, USA
Dr. A van der Spek, Radiologist NP, Onze Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis,
Amsterdam
Julian Jacobs, MD,FACP Emeritus Professor of Medicine,Emory
University School of Medicine,Atlanta,Ga., USA
Bernd Wollschlaeger,MD,FAAFP-Family Physician&Addiction Specialist,
President of the Florida Society of Addiction Medicine& President-
Elect of the Dade County Medical Association, Miami,Florida,USA
Michael Willen, MD, FACP, New York Oncology Hematology, Latham, NY,
USA
Dr Daniel Mann-Segal, Family Physician, Melbourne Australia
Dr. Cleve Ziegler, MD, FRCS(C), CSPQ, Obstetrics & Gynecology
The Sir Mortimer B. Davis - Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Canada
Dr. Stuart L. Fischman, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Health
Sciences
State University of NY at Buffalo, USA
Dr. Alan D. Shroot, Immediate Past President of the Australasian
Jewish Medical Federation
Steven Kirshblum MD, Medical Director, Director of Spinal Cord Injury
Program
Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation, 1199 Pleasant Valley Way, West
Orange, NJ, USA
Rachel Falk, MB.MS. FRANZCP. Consultant psychiatrist, Fellow of the
Royal Australian and NZ College of Psychiatrists; Member, International
Psychoanalytical Association, Australia
Franklin D. Friedman, MD, MS, FACEP, Director of Emergency Clinical
Operations
Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston MA, USA
Dr Brent Rubin, Coastal Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Bradenton
Florida USA
Yale Shulman, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Urology, New York
University School of Medicine, USA
Professor Aviad Haramati, Departments of Physiology & Biophysics
and Medicine Georgetown University School of Medicine Washington, DC, USA
Michael Aschner, PhD, Gray E. B. Stahlman Chair of Neuroscience,
Department of Pediatrics
Medical Center North Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
37232-2495, USA
Sam Schulman, MD, Professor of Medicine, McMaster University,
Hamilton ON, Canada
David H. Shmerling, emer. Professor of Paediatric Gastroenterology,
University of Zürich, Switzerland
Julinho Aisen, MD, Phd. Clinic Hospital University of Sao Paulo, Brasil
Dr Michael Denman, Consultant Clinical Immunologist, Northwick Park
Hospital, Harrow UK
Adam Ilicki, MD, PhD, Senior Pediatrician, Astrid Lindgren Children's
Hospital
Stockholm, Sweden
Jacques Brotchi, MD, PhD, President of the World Federation of
Neurosurgical Societies
Professor & Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, Erasme Hospital,
Université libre de Bruxelles, 808, Route de Lennik, B-1070 Brussels,
Belgium
Joel Sadavoy MD, FRCP, Professor of Psychiatry University of Toronto
Family Chair in Applied General Psychiatry Mount Sinai Hospital and
University of Toronto, Head geriatric Psychiatry, Mount Sinai Hospital,
Head Community Psychiatry Mount Sinai Hospital, Montreal, Canada
Dr Cohen Herman, Head Department, Pediatric Ambulatory Clinic, Petah-
Tikva,Israel
Alan Goldsmith, Ph.D., President, Jewish Renaissance Medical Center
Jewish Renaissance Foundation, Perth Amboy, NJ 08861, USA
Dr. Michael Gordon, Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto,
Canada
Lawrence Skolnick, MD, MPH, FAAP, Associate Professor of Clinicl
Pediatrics
UMDNJ-NJ School of Medicine, USA
William Cooper MD Neurologist, Indianapolis Indiana
Bernard Freudenthal: Year 3 medical student, Royal Free and
University College London Medical School, London, UK
Gabriella Cohn Cedermark MD,PhD, Ass Prof., Dept of Oncology,
Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Dr Michael Cohen MB,ChB, MPH, USA
Dr Deborah Radomsky MBBS, London
Dr. A.Bochner, Pediatric Department, Queen Paola Hospital Antwerp Belgium
Dr Anthony Nicholls MB BS MRCP(UK) MRCGP, Principle, The Pinn Medical
Centre
Middlesex, UK
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Israeli), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Lee B. Sacks, M.D.
Executive Vice President, Chief Medical Officer
Wendy S. Rubinstein, MD, PhD, FACMG, FACP
Medical Director
Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Center for Medical Genetics
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, USA
Harold A. Kessler, M.D.
Professor of Medicine and Immunology/Microbiology
Associate Director, Section of Infectious Diseases
Associate Dean, Post-Graduate Medical Education
Director, Office of Continuing Medical Education
Rush University Medical Center, USA
Vita J. Land, MD, MBA, USA
David Sales MD PhD FACG AGAF, USA
Richard J. Levy, M.D. , USA
Marc A. Rubenstein M.D. , USA
Larry Domont, M.D. , USA
Frank Phillips
Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, IL, USA
Ira Wolke, M.D., Ph.D. , USA
Richard A. Mintzer, M.D.,FACR, FCCP
Clinical Professor of Radiology
Northwestern Univ. Medical School
President and CEO Medical Imaging of Northbrook Court, USA
Sami Weisberg, MD
member, American Association of Pediatrics, USA
Raymond M Handler MD, USA
Arlene F Handler RN, USA
Matt Plofsky, MD, USA
Lawrence Feldman, M.D. , USA
Diane Mulvey Loewenstein MR1, J.D., MBA. , USA
Wayne M Goldstein MD, USA
Jay L. Goldstein, MD
Professor of Medicine
Vice Head for Clinical Affairs
Department of Medicine
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Dr. David J. Kushner, USA
Marla Mendleson
Associate professor of Medicine and Pediatrics of the
Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, USA
Michael S. Pinzur, MD Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery &
Rehabilitation Loyola University Medical Center, USA
Joel B. Greenman, MD, USA
Sheri Ross MD, USA
MICHAEL GROSSMAN M.D. , USA
Riley Minster, MD
FAAP
Lake Shore Pediatrics, Lake Forest, IL, USA
Edward S. Linn, M.D.
Chairman, Dept of Ob-Gyn
Rush North Shore Medical Center, USA
Julian M. Joffe MD
Ian Cohen MD FACC
Illinois Heart and Vascular
Chief of Cardiology – Weiss Memorial Hospital
Asst Prof of Med – Rush University Medical Center, USA
Robert Perlmuter MD, Chicago USA
Laura Sanders M.D. , Chicago USA
Linda Goldstein M.D. , Chicago USA
Nelson Kanter, MD, Chicago USA
Bruce Greenspahn M.D., Chicago USA
Scott Greenspahn M.D. , Chicago USA
Daniel P. Mass MD, Chicago USA
Stuart W. Rosenbush MD, Chicago USA
Bruce Brockstein, MD, Chicago USA
Laurie Hochberg, M.D. , Chicago USA
Susan Sirota, Chicago USA
Jeffrey Kopin, M.D. , Chicago USA
Burton Herbstman, M.D., Chicago USA
Michael Davidson, M.D. , Chicago USA
Dr Karina Stolyarsky, Melbourne, Australia
Dr Elizabeth Segal, Melbourne, Australia
Naomi Vilko, MD
Psychiatry and Psychopharmacology
Vilko Corporate Consulting, USA
Sidney Goldfarb, MD
Urology, USA
David A. Turner, MD, FACR
Professor and Chairperson
Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
Rush University Medical Center
1653 W. Congress Parkway
Chicago, IL 60612 USA
William L. Cantor, MD FAAO-HNS
Assistant Clinical Professor of Otolaryngology, New York Medical College
Associate Director Medical Education, Pascack Valley Hospital, Westwood,
NJ 07675 USA
David P. Rapaport, MD, FACS, Plastic Surgeon, Director, Park Avenue
OBS, 580 Park Avenue, New York, NY, USA
Pincas Bitterman, MD
Professor and Director of Gynecologic Pathology
Department of Pathology and Obstetrics & Gynecology
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, Il 60612, USA
Melvin Lopata, MD
Professor of Medicine
University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, USA
Ross A. Abrams, M.D.
Chairman & Hendrickson Professor
Dept. of Radiation Oncology
Rush Univ. Medical Center
Chicago, IL. USA
S Michael Fuhrman DO, Delmar NY USA
Robert Szigeti, M.D., Ph. D., Dr. med Sc., Senior Lecturer
Karolinska Institute and Hospital
Dept. of Pediatrics, Stockholm, Sweden
Nelson M Wolf, MD, FACC, FACP Prof of Medicine, Director Cardiac
Catheterization Laboratories, Temple Univ Hosp. Phila., Pa, USA
Dr. Ron Spielman, Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst
Paddington, NSW, Australia
Ronald Barabas, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Drexel University College of Medicine
Dr Keith B. Shilkin, Clinical Professor of Pathology, University of
Western Australia
Consultant Pathologist
Dr Ben King, Senior House Officer/Clinical Research Fellow, Royal
Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust, UK
Jay D. Luft M.D., Section Chief ENT Christiana Care Wilmington Delaware,
USA
Stephen A. Pearlman, MD
Fellowship Director,Neonatology,TJUH
Associate Director, Neonatology, CCHS
Director of Medical Education, Pediatrics, CCHS, USA
Owen B White
Neurologist
Royal Melbourne Hospital
Department of Neurosciences
PARKVILLE 3050
AUSTRALIA
Dr.Gregory Belkin, Australia
Sonia Kurtz MD, MSc, University of Toronto Faculty, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada
John A Eisman AO, MB BS, PhD, FRACP
Professor of Medicine (Conjoint), University of New South Wales;
Staff Endocrinologist, St Vincent's Hospital; and
Director, Bone and Mineral Research Program,
Garvan Institute of Medical Research,
Sydney, NSW 2010
Australia
Lawrence W. White MD
26 La Cuesta
Greenbrae CA 94904 USA
Viktoria Viprinski ,specialist in Neurology, Psychiatry,
Psychotheraphy, Cologne, Germany
Monica Feder, MD
Specialist in Medical Rehabilitation
Stockholm, Sweden
Refael Guggenheim, MD, Zurich, Switzerland, Israel Medical
Association (Switzerland)
Willy Krauthammer, MD, Zurich, Switzerland, President Israel Medical
Association (Switzerland)
Sheldon B. Stern, Psy.D.
New York State Licensed Psychologist, USA
Ms. Carly Leff, student at Barnard College, USA
Dr Leslie R. Segal
Senior Lecturer
Department of General Practice
Monash University
Melbourne, Australia
Jeffrey A. Ascherman, M.D.
Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery,
Chief, Division of Plastic Surgery,
Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
Dr Alexander Freitag FRACP
Consultant Physician in Private Practice, Sydney, Australia
Michael S. Huckman, MD, FACR
Prof. of Radiology, Dir. Of Neuroradiology
Rush University Medical Center,Chicago,IL USA
Associate Professor Adam Jaffe
BSc (Hons) MD FRCP FRCPCH FRACP
Consultant in Respiratory Medicine
Sydney Children's Hospital and Conjoint Appointee School of Women's and
Children's Health University of New South Wales High Street, Randwick
Sydney NSW 2031 Australia
Dr David Itzkowic
Gynaecologist, Bondi Junction, 2022 Australia
Monty Shnier. ( MBbCh.DCh.R.C.&S. FR.C.PE.,F.R.A.C.P)
Paediatrician, Sydney Australia.
Dr Gil Kleiner Ear nose and Throat specialist
Marrickville Australia
Gabriel Zipser MB BS (Sydney), FRCS (Eng), FRCS (Ed), FRCOG, FRACOG
Dr Garry Schaffer MBBS,FRANZCR
Radioloigist, Sydney, Australia
Dr Peter Kitchener
MB BS FRANZCR
Director, CityXRAY Sydney Australia
Ronald Barabas, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19129 USA
Dr David Huber FRACS, Director of Vascular Surgery, Wollongong
Hospital, Wollongong, NSW Australia
Jeffrey A. Arons MD, New Haven, CT USA
Arthur L. Frank MD,PhD, Professor of Public Health, Drexel University
School of Public Health, Philadelphia,PA USA
Stephen A Morris, M.D.
Asst Clinical Professor of Surgery
College of Human Medicine
Michigan State University, Saginaw, Michigan, USA
Elliott Greene, MD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Albany Medical College
Albany, New York, USA
Gary S. Mintz, MD. Medical Director, Publications and Online
Education, Cardiovascualr Research Foundation, New York, NY, and Editor-in
-Chief, TCTMD.com, USA
Dr Jeffrey Chaitow M.B.B.Ch.,FRACP , Australia
Dr. Gerald Dorros, MD, DSc (yeshiva), DSc (Colby), FACC, FESC, FACP
Medical Director
Dorros-Feuer Interventional Cardiovascular Disease Foundation, Ltd
Wilson, Wyoming USA
Stuart CHalew, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics
LSUHSC
New Orleans, LA USA
Dr Hazel Goldberg, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick
St George Hospital, Kogarah and
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, Australia
Erik Magid, retired
MD. DMSCI.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Alan Fine, M.D.
Boston University, USA
Harold J. Bursztajn M.D.
co-Founder Program in Psychiatry and the Law
@BIDMC of the Psychiatry Department of Harvard Medical School, USA
Cory S. Goldberg MD, BSc, MASc, FRCS(C)
Plastic Surgery Fellow
Children's Hospital of Los Angeles
University of Southern California, USA
Peter L. Carlen MD, FRCPC
Professor
Departments of Medicine (Neurology), Physiology, and IBBME
University of Toronto, Canada
Ierachmiel Daskal M.D., PhD, FCAP, FASCP Professor and Chairman
Department of pathology Albert Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia PA
19141 USA
A. Michael Lincoff, MD
Vice Chairman for Research, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Director, Cleveland Clinic Cardiovascular Coordinating Center
Professor of Medicine
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve
University
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, OH 44195 USA
Elazer R. Edelman, MD, PhD, FACC
Director, Harvard-MIT Biomedical Engineering Center
Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Professor
Health Sciences and Technology
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, USA
Hyam I. Levitsky, M.D.
Professor of Oncology, Medicine, and Urology Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive
Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine, USA
Mark B. Effron, MD, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Achi Ludomirsky, M.D.
The Louis Larrick Ward Professor
of Pediatrics and Biomedical Engineering
Director, Division of Pediatric Cardiology
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis Children's Hospital, USA
Terry Unterman, MD
Professor of Medicine, Physiology and Biophysics University of Illinois at
Chicago College of Medicine, USA
Edith Diament Gurewitsch, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Gynecology & Obstetrics Division of Maternal
Fetal Medicine Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 600 North Wolfe
Street, Phipps 217 Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
David M. Briscoe M.D., Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School.
Childrens Hospital Boston, USA
Igor Ed Krichevsky M.D.
Norwalk Hospital
Norwalk, CT USA
Jose Biller, M.D., FACP, FAAN, FAHA
Professor and Chairman
Department of Neurology
Loyola University Chicago
Stritch School of Medicine
Maywood, IL 60153 USA
David R. Musher, MD
FACP, FACG
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
NYU School of Medicine
New York, NY 10029 USA
Josh Korman MD, FACS
Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor
Stanford University, USA
Asher Schachter, MD, MMSc, MS
Division of Nephrology, Children's Hospital Boston Children's Hospital
Informatics Program at Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, USA
Dr El Bèze Yves, cardiologist, Paris; France
Michael J. Schneck, MD
Associate Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery Director, NICU Associate
Director, Stroke Unit Loyola University Medical Center 2160 South First
Avenue Maywood, IL, USA
Dr. Chaim Bernstein
Associate Medical Director
Chief Pulmonary and Critical Care
Beth Israel Medical Center Kings Highway Division Brooklyn, New York, USA
Daniel Jacobs, M.D.
Mountain View, California, USA
Michael A Binder, MD
Tampa, FL, USA
Avron Daniller. MD. FRCS, England
David berman MD
Sterling, VA, USA
Elliot S. Gershon, MD
Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry and Human Genetics
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
Professor Gabriel Danovitch
Medical Director of Kidney Transplant Program David Geffen School of
Medicine at UCLA, USA
Sorin Brener MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Cleveland Clinic, USA
A.Stone Freedberg MD Professor of Medicine(Emeritus)
Harvard Medical School,Harvard University
Boston Mass.,USA
Edward R. Burns, M.D.
Executive Dean
Professor of Medicine and Pathology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, NY 10461 USA
Adam J . Rubinstein, MD
Turnberry Plastic Surgery
Board Certified, American Board of Plastic Surgery
Member, American Society of Plastic Surgeons, USA
Ari Melmed, MD
Vice Chirman, Department of Emergency Medicine
Exempla St. Joseph Hospital
Denver, Colorado, USA
Dean E. Brenner, M.D.
Kutsche Family Memorial Professor of Internal Medicine Professor of
Pharmacology 2150 Cancer and Geriatrics Center University of Michigan
Medical Center 1500 E. Hospital Drive Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Neal Lakritz MD
Massachusetts Medical Society, Delegate, USA
Dr. Michael E. Matlak
Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics, University of Utah School of
Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Dafna D. Gladman MD, FRCPC
Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto
Senior Scientist, Toronto Western Research Institute
University Health Network, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada
Bettina L. Fliegel MD, FAAP
Assistant Clinical Professor, Pediatrics, Mount Sinai Hospital New York,
New York, USA
Emmanuel Messas MD PhD
Paticien hospitalier-Cardiologue
Pole cardiovasculaire-Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou
INSERM U633, Faculté de médecine Paris Descartes, Paris 5
75015 Paris, France
Leslie J Klaff MD PhD
Rainier Clinical Research Center
Renton WA USA
Hadar J. Merhav MD
Assistant Medical Director
Liver Transplantation & Hepatobiliary Surgical Associates Affiliated
with Memorial Hermann Hospital.
Associate Professor of Surgery - University of Texas Houston, USA
Harvey L. Gordon, MD, FACS
Clinical Professor of Urology and Medical Ethics
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX, USA
Daniel Thau Teitelbaum, M.D.
Associate Clinical Professor of Preventive Medicine
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center at Denver
Denver, Colorado
Adjunct Professor of Environmental Sciences
The Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, USA
Pr Fabien Koskas
Service de Chirurgie Vasculaire
La Salpêtrière Paris France
Gor Levy-Reis, M.D.
Neurologist
Naples, Florida, USA
David J Zukor MD FRCSC
Chief Department Orthopedic Surgery
SMBD-Jewish General Hospital
Associate Professor Surgery McGill University
Montreal Canada
Giora Katz MD
Urologist
Manitowoc Wisconsin USA
Steven H. Cobb, M.D.
Phoenix, Arizona USA
Arthur E. Cohen, MD, MS, MPH, ScD(hon)
Keene State College, Keene, NH USA
Paul DeSandre, DO
Attending Physician, Emergency Medicine
Beth Israel Medical Center
New York, NY
Dr John Gallo, Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Ellis D. Avner, M.D.
Director, Children's Research Institute
Associate Dean for Research, Medical College of WI, USA
David P. Bick, M.D. Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Medical
College of Wisconsin; Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Dr Jonathan Mushin, Melbourne, Australia
Dr.Lockie Milner, Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of Pediatric
Nehrology, the Floating Hospital for Children, New England Medical
Center,and Tufts UniversitySchool of Medicine ,Boston, Massachusetts, USA
David D. Gutterman, MD Northwestern Mutual Professor of Cardiology,
Senior Associate Dean for Research, Medical College of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee, WI, USA
Irving "Jake" Jacoby, MD, USA
Pr Alain COHEN SOLAL
French Faculty of Medicine Paris VII, France
Dr Chantal TANGER
Vascular Diseases Doppler
75010 PARIS, France
Marvin Forland, MD, MACP
Professor Emeritus
Department of Medicine, Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (Texas), USA
David de Vries, M.D., Pulmonologist.
Harderwijk, The Netherlands
Mitchell J. Barrer, MD, Diplomate, American Board of Anesthesiology,
Fellow of the American College of Anesthesiology, President, Grand View
Anesthesia Associates. Sellersville, PA 18960 USA
Bernard G. Moffie MD, clinical microbiologist
Vlietland Ziekenhuis
Schiedam, The Netherlands
Jeffrey Kaufman MD, FACS
President, American Association of Clinical Urologists
Member, AMA and American College of Surgeons
Paige Applebaum Farkas M.D.
Medical Director
Comprehensive Dermatology and Laser Center
Ridgewood, New Jersey, USA
Jacques Blacher, Director of the cardiovascular unit of Hôtel-Dieu
hospital of Paris, Paris, France
Pr Francine Behar-Cohen, René Descartes University, Paris, France
Mark Mausner MD
Chief, Dept of Plastic Surgery, Suburban Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Roy D. Altman, MD
Professor of Medicine
David Geffen School of Medicine
At the University of California, Los Angeles
Editor-in-Chief, /Osteoarthritis and Cartilage/
Editor, /Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism/
Past President: Osteoarthritis Research Society International
Prior Delegate to the American Medical Association
Bernard S. Kaplan MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine and Urology The Children's Hospital of
Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA, USA
Juda Habot MD, FRCPC, Division of Cardiology, Southlake Regional
Health Centre, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
Jose Benchimol MD, Transplant Surgeon in Caracas, Venezuela. Member
of the Jewish Association of Venezuela
Robert M. Glueck, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Executive Director, Carondelet Heart Institute, Kansas City, Missouri USA
David Sapire M.D.
Professor, Department Of Pediatrics
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas 77030 USA
Nachman Braurbar, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Medicine
University of Southern California
Keck School of Medicine
Los Angeles, CA USA
Gary Loren, M.D.
Anesthesiologist
New Jersey, USA
Barry Kogan, Chief, Division of Urology, Albany Medical College, USA
Lorne Rosenfield M.D.
1750 El Camino Real
Burlingame Ca, USA
Brian W Berman MD Professor of Pediatrics Case Western Reserve
University School of Medicine, Division Chief, General Academic Pediatrics
Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital Cleveland, Ohio USA
Philip Frost M.D.Ph.D.
President
Calesca Pharmaceuticals
Morristown,NJ, USA
Paige Kaplan M.B.B.Ch.(Witwatersrand)
Professor of Mitochondrial and Metabolic Diseases Children's Hospital of
Philadelphia, USA
Benjamin Fass, MD
Pediatric Endocrinologist
Kaiser Permanente
6041 Cadillac Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90035, USA
Professor Rebecca S Mason
Head, Physiology
Associate Dean (Curriculum), Medicine,
Chair, USyd Medical Program Committee
University of Sydney,
NSW 2006, Australia
Elizabeth B. Rappaport M.D.
Associate Professor, Department Of Family And Community Medicine
Thomas Jefferson University, USA
Avroy A Fanaroff MD
Professor and Chair
Department of Pediatrics
Case Western Reserve University, USA
Norman M Magid, MD, FACC, FACP, Clinical Associate Professor of
Medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, USA
Dr Anthony Levine Sydney NSW Australia
Leslie Schrieber MD FRACP
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Sydney, Australia
Dr Jerome Edelstein, MD, FRCSC
Plastic Surgeon
Toronto, Canada
Dr. Nitsa Kohut
541 St. Germain Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
TARRAGANO Francois
Interventional Cardiologist, American Hospital of Paris, Lariboisiere
Public Hospital, France
Jeffrey A. Ascherman, M.D.
Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery, Chief, Division of Plastic
Surgery, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, USA
Dr Morris Segel Family Medicine Sydney Australia
alec vahanian ,head of the cardiology department ,Bichat hospital
,Paris ,France
Les White MBBS FRACP DSc MRACMA MHA
John Beveridge Professor of Paediatrics University of NSW & Executive
Director Sydney Children's Hospital High Street, Randwick NSW 2031,
Australia
Joseph Richter, MD
Assistant Professor, Clinical Pediatrics
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, USA
Michael R. Rosen M.D.
Gustavus A.Pfeiffer Professor of Pharmacology
Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Center for Molecular Therapeutics
Columbia University, NY, USA
Dr.Fernand Hessel président de la Fondation de cardiologie Lucien
Dreyfus 15 rue du Tivoli F 68100 Mulhouse, France
Dr Bradley Lewinsohn FY1 at the Royal London hospital, England
Dr H.H.Themans ENT
Amsterdam Holland
Mr. Eric Chemla
Consultant renal transplant and vascular surgeon St Georges Healthcare NHS
trust Blackshaw Road London SW17, England
Dr. Barry F. Cohn
Retired Anesthesiologist/Intensivist
Leiden University Medical Center
The Netherlands
William Schwartz, MD
Attending Physician
Good Samaritan Hopital
Suffern, NY l0901 USA
Dr F. HAZIZA. Hopital Foch. France
Pamela Scheinman, MD
Assistant Professor of Dermatology
Director, Contact Dermatitis and Occupational Dermatology Unit
Tufts-New England Medical Center
Boston, MA 02111 USA
Igor J. Koralnik, MD
Director, HIV/Neurology Center
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Associate Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
HARRY L. SERNAKER, M.D., Esq --Director: Mid Atlantic Medical Detox
Foundation, Baltimore, MD, USA
Dr. H.C. Weinstein
Afdeling Neurologie
Sint Lucas Andreas Ziekenhuis
Postbus 9243, 1006 AE Amsterdam, Holland
Dr. Horst Sabiers
D-50668 Köln (Cologne/Germany)
Michael S Lauer, MD, FACC, FAHA
Professor of Medicine
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of CWRU
Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Case Western Reserve University
Contributing Editor, JAMA, USA
Riva Akerman MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Pediatric
Anesthesia Division, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA
Harley A. Rotbart, M.D.
Professor and Vice Chairman of Pediatrics
Professor of Microbiology
Pediatric Infectious Diseases
University of Colorado School of Medicine, USA
Rina Lazebnik
Professor of Pediatrics, Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland Ohio, USA
David Schillinger, M.D. FACEP, USA
Andrew N. Pollak, MD
Associate Professor and Head
Division of Orthopaedic Trauma
Associate Director of Trauma
R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Dr. Adrian Flohr
MVZ MEDPLUS, 47799 Krefeld, Germany
Steven R. Levine, M.D., Mount Sinai Medical Center, NY, NY, USA
Joseph D. Rosenblatt M.D. Professor of Medicine , Microbiology and
Immunology William Harrington Chair in Hematology Division Chief,
Hematology Oncology Associate Director for Clinical and Translational
Research, SCCC, USA
Salomon Kramer, D.O. General Surgeon, Texas, USA
Stephen Berman MD FAAP
Professor of Pediatrics University of Colorado School of Medicine
Past President American Academy of Pediatrics, USA
Nathan Rabinovitch MD.
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Division of Allergy Immunology
National Jewish Medical and Research Center 1400 Jackson Street, Denver,
USA
Stuart S. Kesler, MD
Clinical Assistant
Department of Urology
Hackensack University Medical Center
Hackensack, NJ USA
Maurice Buchbinder M.D.
Foundation for Cardiovascular Medicine, Scripps Memorial Hospital,
LaJolla, California U.S.A
Professeur Bernard LOBEL, Pour le Président,
Confederation des Associations Médicales Juives de France.
Marc Yudkoff, MD
WT Grant Prof. of Pediatrics, Univ. of PA School of Medicine Chief, Div.
of Child Development, Rehabilitation and Metabolic Disease Children's
Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
Richard A. Spritz, M.D.
Professor and Director,
Human Medical Genetics Program
University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center
Aurora, CO 80045 USA
Charles Antzelevitch, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FHRS Executive
Director/Director of Research, Gordon K. Moe Scholar Professor of
Pharmacology, Masonic Medical Research Laboratory , Utica, NY 13501-1787,
USA
Alicia McFarren M.D.
Graduate of New York Medical College '07, future pediatric resident -
Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
Nachum Katlowitz M.D., N.Y., USA
Lawrence Copelovitch MD, Renal Fellow, The Children's Hospital of
Philadelphia, USA
Estelle Stetz-Marcus MD
Hingham, Massachusetts, USA
M.Jeffrey Maisels MD
Chairman
Department of Pediatrics, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak MI 48073-
6769 USA
Baruch Krauss MD, EdM
Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts 02115 USA
Boris Havkin M.D.
Melbourne Internal medicine Associates.
Melbourne, Florida, USA.
Paul M. Weinberg, M.D.
Director, Fellowship Training Program in Pediatric Cardiology Professor of
Pediatrics and Pediatric Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Associate
Professor of Radiology at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA
Michael Schaffer, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics
University of Colorado School of Medicine, USA
Claude A Brachfeld MD FACC
Asst Clinical Professor of Vascular Surgery, University of Kansas
Hutchinson Clinic
Hutchinson KS 67502, USA
Haya R. Rubin, M.D., Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University, USA
Ronald J. Sokol, MD Professor and Vice Chair of Pediatrics Chief,
Section of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Program
Director, Pediatric Clinical Translational Research Center (formerly GCRC)
University of Colorado School of Medicine, The Children's Hospital,
Denver, Colorado 80218 USA
Rich Klasco, MD, FACEP
Senior VP, Medical Affairs & Editor-in-Chief
Thomson Healthcare
Greenwood Village, CO 80111-4740 USA
Lori A. Lemberg, MD, Attending Physician--Jacobi Medical Center, Asst.
Clinical Professor of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine,
Bronx, New York, USA
Alfred D. Katz, M.D. 8631 W Third ST Los Angeles, Ca. 90048 USA
Isaac Teitelbaum, MD FACP
Professor of Medicine
Director, Acute and Home Dialysis Programs
University of Colorado Hospital
Denver, CO 80262 USA
Stanley H. Galansky, MD, Clinical Professor of Surgery and Pediatric
Urology, University of Colorado School of Medicine and The Children’s
Hospital, Denver, Colorado, USA
Michael Friedlander
Professor of Medicine,conjoint University of New South Wales
Director of Medical Oncology
The Prince of Wales Hospital
Randwick Sydney 2031 Australia
Gerald M. Weisfogel, MD, FACC, D,ABSM
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
New Brunswick, NJ. USA 08901
Mendel Tuchman M.D.
Vice Chairman for Research
Scientific Director, Children's Research Institute
Professor of Pediatrics, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Children's National Medical Center
Washington DC 20010-2970 USA
Stanley Glazer, M.D.
Secretary of the Maimonides Medical Club
Springfield, Massachusetts 01107 U.S.A.
Ronald S. Nadel MD
Springfield, Ma, USA
Steven M. Wenner, M.D., Springfield MA USA
Stanley Brosman MD
Clinical Professor of Urology
UCLA Center for the Health Sciences, USA
Ira H Monosson, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
USC Keck School of Medicine
UCLA Geffen School of Medicine, USA
Michael A. Rabovsky, M.D. Medical Director Beachwood Family Health
& Surgery Center Cleveland Clinic Beachwood, OH, USA
Marlane C. Guttmann, MD
Staff Radiologist
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Philadelphia, PA USA
Paul J. Grodan M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor
Dept. of Internal Medicine
Geffen-UCLA School of Medicine, USA
Neil Segall DO
Thornton, CO USA
Michael A. Ozer, M.D.
San Antonio, Texas, USA
Miriam Harel ,M.D. retired plastic surgeon, Newton MA, USA
Prof. Sidney Chocron, MD, PhD
Member of STS - Member of EACTS
Cardiothoracic surgery, Besancon, France
Isaac S. Kohane, MD, PhD
Henderson Associate Professor of Health Sciences and Technology
Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Director, Countway Library of Medicine
Director, HMS Center for Biomedical Informatics
Boston, MA 02115 USA
Harvey Guttmann, MD
Abington Memorial Hospital, Abington PA 19046, USA
Melvyn B. Schupack, MD, Walpole, NH, USA
J.Courant, MD, IMA-Nederlands
Arthur L. Levy MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Internal Medicine, Yale University School of
Medicine and Medical Director of Medical Oncology in New Haven,
Connecticut, USA
Brigitte Köder
MD, Anesthesiologist
Hagaziekenhuis Den Haag
SN Den Haag, Netherlands
Don Gilden, MD
Professor and Chairman
Department of Neurology
The University of Colorado School of Medicine
Denver, Colorado, USA
Professor Ashley Grossman
Dept. of Endocrinology
St. Bartholomew's Hospital
London EC1A 7BE
Great Britain
Dr. Roman M. Skoblo, Bundesverband Jüdischer Ärzte und Psychologen,
Deutschland
Shamir Tuchman, MD, MPH
Fellow - Division of Pediatric Nephrology The Children's Hospital of
Philadelphia, USA
Silvio Sperber MD
Interventional Cardiology
Memorial Hospital of South Broward
Hollywood, Florida, USA
S. Bert Litwin MD
Childrens Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA
ALVIN MARKOVITZ MD,FACP,FACOEM FAADEP ASSOC CLINICAL PROF of
MEDICINE UNIVERSITY of SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES CA. USA
David Muram, MD
Professor Emeritus
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
University of Tennessee, Memphis, USA
Gary J. Alter, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor of Plastic Surgery UCLA School of Medicine
Beverly Hills, CA. USA
Michael B. Kastan, M.D., Ph.D.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Memphis, TN USA
Robert peter gale md phd dsc (hon) facp
Exec dir clinical research
Celgene corp, Summit, NJ USA
Visiting prof haematology
Imperial College Hammersmith hospital, London, UK
Dr. Daniel Derman
Clinical Instructor of Medicine
Northwestern University of Medicine, USA
M.H.Melmed MD
Gynecologist
Englewood, Colorado, 80111, USA
Neal J Weinreb, MD, FACP Voluntary Associate Professor of Medicine,
University of Miami School of Medicine University Research Foundation for
Lysososomal Storage Diseases, Coral Springs, Florida, USA
Howard Trachtman MD
Schneider Children's Hospital
Division of Nephrology
New Hyde Park NY USA
Leonard Knell M.D. retired Orthopedic surgeon – Canton, Ohio, USA
Dr.Mark Indig M.D., Germany
Professor Jack Sobel MD
Chief Division of Infectious Diseases
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Detroit Michigan USA
Harold P. Lehmann, MD PhD
Associate Professor, Health Sciences Informatics
Joint: Pediatrics, Health Policy and Management
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD USA
Glenn M. Lipton, MD, DABPM, FIPP, DABIPP
Director, North American Interventional Pain Management, Arizona, USA
Professor J E Myers
School of Public Health & Family Medicine
Health Sciences Faculty
University of Cape Town, S. Africa
Dan Yamini, MD, Diplomate of the American Board of Surgery and
Plastic Surgery, Los Angeles, California, USA
Ran Neiger, MD
Professor of Ob/Gyn
Wright State University
Dayton, Ohio, USA
Harold N. Fisher, BSc., MD, MCFP (EM), FACEP
Warren Grossman MD
Orthopaedic Associates of South Broward
Hollywood, Fl 33021 USA
Stephen Burgher, MD, FACEP
Assistant Medical Director
Department of Emergency Medicine
Baylor University Medical Center
Dallas, Texas 75246 USA
Robert L. Levine, M.D.
Associate Professor
Neurosurgery and Emergency Medicine
The University of Texas School of Medicine at Houston, USA
Richard F. Grossman, M.D.
Attending Plastic Surgeon
The Permanente Medical Group
Walnut Creek, California, USA
D. Miller Wise, MD
Attending Plastic Surgeon
Dept Plastic Surgery
Walnut Creek, CA 94596 USA
William Silvers MD
Greenwood Medical Center
Englewood, CO 80111
United States of America
Peter Vadas MD, PhD, FRCPC, FACP
Toronto, Canada
Marjorie Curtis-Cohen, MD
CHOP Newborn Care at Holy Redeemr Hospital
Meadowbrook, Pennsylvania, USA
Professor Stephen Davis
Professor of Neurology
University of Melbourne
Royal Melbourne Hospital
Parkville, Victoria
Australia 3050
Philip D. Zinn, M.D.
Cardiology Clinic of San Antonio, USA
Dudley Seth Danoff, MD, FACS
Tower Urology
Cedars Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, Calif.,USA
Joseph R. Furman, MD
San Antonio, Texas, USA
Daniel Fink MD
Clinical Associate Professor
Wayne State University School of Medicine Detroit, Michigan, USA
Irving Katz, M.D.
Former Chief of Staff Peninsula Hospital, Burlingame, Ca 94010 USA
Michèle J. Saunders, D.M.D., M.S., M.P.H. – Professor, Division of
Geriatrics and Gerontology, Department of Medicine, University of Texas
Health Science Center at San Antonio USA
Kim Kwiatek M.D. , USA
Stephen Burgher, MD, FACEP
Assistant Medical Director
Department of Emergency Medicine
Baylor University Medical Center
Dallas, Texas 75246 USA
Dr George Hamor
MB,BS,FRACP.
Consultant Respiratory and Sleep Physician.
Sydney, Australia.
Dr. Emma Guttman-Yassky, MD/MSc, Associate Attending Physician,
Clinical Scholar, Investigative Dermatology, Rockefeller University, NY,
USA and Department of Dermatology Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
Dr Henry Pinskier
Melbourne Australia
Donald Motzkin, M.D. Woodland Hill, Ca 91364 USA
Lorne Finkelstein M.D. F.R.C.P.(C) F.A.C.C.
Cardiologist
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Barbara Schuster, MD, MACP Professor and Chair, Dept. of Internal
Medicine
Wright State University USA
Mark T. Buchman, M.D., M.Sc.(Orthopaedics), F.A.C.S.
Member American Society for Surgery of the Hand
Member American Association for Hand Surgery
Member American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery
Payman Vahedifar, M.D.
Nephrology and Hypertension
Cedars-Sinai Medical Towers
8635 W. 3rd Street Suite 865-W
Los Angeles, CA 90048 USA
Ronald M. Friedman, M.D.
Former Chief of Plastic Surgery
Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, TX, USA
Elliot Weser, MD, FACP
Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center
at San Antonio, Texas USA
Donald Motzkin, M.D. Woodland Hill, CA 91364 USA
Professor Mary Rudolf
Consultant paediatrician and Professor of Child Health Leeds Primary Care
Trust and University of Leeds Belmont House
Leeds LS2 9DE USA
Michael Stern, MD
Professor of Medicine
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
San Antonio, TX 78229-3900 USA
Lorne Finkelstein M.D. F.R.C.P.(C) F.A.C.C.
Cardiologist
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Myriam Lipovsky, MD, PhD
Utrecht/Zeist,
the Netherlands
Dr. Daniel Kollek
Associate Professor - Emergency Medicine, McMaster University
Dundas, Ontario, Canada
Jack M. Bernstein, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Wright State
University, Dayton, OH USA
Dr. David J. Katz , Attending in Charge and Director of Oral
Diagnosis-New York Hospital, USA
David Sacerdoti
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
University of Padova Italy
Roger G. Rosenstein, MD
Paramus, New Jersey USA
Herman Charles Knoll, M.D.
Internal Medicine
Associate Professor,
Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
Good Samaritan Hospital
Dayton Heart Hospital USA
Thomas Golper M.D. Vanderbil University Medical Center, Nashville,
TN, USA
Sylvia Stein M.D. Vienna,Austria
Sidney Miller, MD FACS Professor of Surgery
Director, The Ohio State University Burn Center
the Ohio State University College of Medicine
University Hospitals
Department of Surgery
Columbus, OH 43210 USA
Dr. med. Michael Schiffmann
Facharzt für HNO-Krankheiten
Plastische Operationen, Allergologie
D-60322 Frankfurt Germany
Stephen L. Stern, M.D.
Professor, Department of Psychiatry
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio USA
Mark H. Hyman, MD, FACP, FAADEP
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90025 USA
Richard J. Schuster,MD,MMM
Oscar Boonshoft Chair and Director
Center for Global Health Systems, Management, & Policy Boonshoft
School of Medicine Wright State University
Kettering, Ohio 45420 USA
Kenneth L. Zeitzer, M.D.
Interim Chairman,
Department of Radiation Oncology
Albert Einstein Medical Center
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Dr. Lyubka Tancheva, Ph.D., Assoc. Prof. in Pharmacology, Institute
of Neurobiology, Dept. Experimental Psychopharmacology, Bulgarian Academy
of Sciences Bulgaria
JP van Wouwe, MD PhD, pediatrician
Member of the Pediatric Association of the Netherlands
Overseas fellow of the Royal Society for Medicine (UK)
Netherlands organization for applied scientific research
Leiden, the Netherlands
Dr Fred Siegel
ASPS, Chesapeake, VA USA
Gary M. Youra, Past Chief of Staff, Childrens Medical Center, Dayton,
Ohio, USA
Marrick Kukin, M.D., FACC
Director, Heart Failure Program
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospitals
New York, New York 10019 USA
Dr. Ronit Zweig, PsyD, CBT, Psychologist, NY, USA
Dr. Emma Guttman-Yassky, MD/MSc, Associate Attending Physician,
Clinical Scholar, Investigative Dermatology, Rockefeller University, NY,
USA and Department of Dermatology Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
DR. Benjamin C Cohney FRCS., FRACS.,FRCSE., FACS. Emeritus Surgeon
Royal Perth Hospital, Perth Western Australia
Samuel R Bierstock, MD
Delray Beach, Florida USA
Evelyn van Pinxteren/Nagler, paediatrician,
Medical Centre Leeuwarden, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands
Robert Bloom M.D
Medical director, Opthalmology, Children Medical Center, Dayton Ohio USA
Michael Bloom M.D, Medical director, Opthalmology, Children Medical
Center, Dayton Ohio USA
Albert L. Amshel, M.D
Dr.Paul Kraus PhD.,specialist in Pediatrics The Netherlands
Kenneth T. Wals, MD
Fellow, Retina Service
UPMC Eye Center
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA USA
Donald Schon, MD, FACP
Associate Clinical Prof. Medicine
Univ. of Arizona School of Medicine
Arizona Kidney Disease and Hypertension Ctr
Phoenix, Arizona USA
Dr.Paul Kraus PhD; kinderarts
The Netherlands
James G Schwade MD FACR FACRO
Executive Director,
Cyberknife Centers of Miami & Palm Beach
Clinical Prof. of Radiation Oncology & Former Chairman, Dept. of Rad.
Onc., UM Miller Sch. of Med.
Adjunct Prof. of Biomedical Engineering, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering,
Florida International University USA
Marilyn J. Heine, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine and
Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Carol E. Rose, M.D.
Department of Anesthesiology
UPMC - Presby Room C-204
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
Scot D. Paris, MD, FACS
General Surgeon
Pennsylvania, USA
Arlin J.Silberman, DO,Clinical Associate Professor of
Psychiatry,Drexel University College of Medicine, Phila., Pa, USA
Daniel Navot MD Professor and Chief, Division of Reproductive
Endocrinology New York Medical College USA
Dr Robert Luder
Consultant Physician,
North Middlesex University Hospital London UK
Sanford H. Herman, MD
Emergency Medicine
Clarksville, TN USA
J Greenbaum MD FRCPC
Assissant Professor of Medicine McMaster Medical School
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Newton D. Scherl, M.D. Chief Gastroenterology, Englewood Hospital,
Englewood, NJ USA
Gary Berman,M.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
Lyndon E. Mansfield MD
Director
Western Sky Medical Research
El Paso Texas 79902 USA
Leonard Cohen, M.D., Ph.D.
West Hartford, CT 06107 USA
Gary N. Gross, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Dallas, Texas USA
Herbert Blumer,md, Canada
Dr.Mair Nae, Turkey
Steven F. Weinstein, M.D.
Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics University of California at
Irvine, USA
Paul Shapero, M. D.
Bangor, ME 04401 USA
Alan Wanderer, M.D.USA
Sheldon Spector, MD
Clinical Prof of Medicine, USA
Samuel B. Lehrer, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70112 USA
Jack M. Becker, MD
Director of Allergy
St. Christopher's Hospital for Children
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Drexel University College of Medicine USA
Ronald Fields, MD Cardiologist, Langhorne, Pa, USA
Michael Z. Blumberg, M.D., MSHA
Managing Partner and Director of Clinical Research
Virginia Adult and Pediatric Allergy and Asthma
Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
Virginia Commonwealth University, U.S.A
Jonathan D. Field, MD
New York, NY USA
Donald W Aaronson MD JD MPH
Executive Director
Joint Council of Allergy Asthma and Immunology USA
GILBERT LANOFF M.D.
Lewis J Kanter,MD
Director, Allergy Care Center, USA
Dr. Eugene I. Sacks
Retired General Surgeon, Nashville, Tennessee USA
Antonio Piga M.D., Prof. of Forensic Medicine and Bioethics.
Universidad de Alcalá (Madrid) Spain
Evan B. Dreyer, MD, PhD, FACS
Assoc Professor, Harvard (retired).USA
Michael M. Frank, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Duke University
Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710 USA
I. Leonard Bernstein,M.D. Professor of Medicine
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati,Ohio, USA
Robert E. Braitman, M.D. F.A.A.P.
Pediatric Associates of Norwood & Franklin, P.C., USA
Joel H. Selter, M.D., USA
Robert Goldman, MD, FAAAAI, FAAP
Hudson Valley Asthma & Allergy Associates
Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520 USA
Phil Lieberman, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
University of Tennesse - College of Medicine USA
Howard J. Schwartz, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Medicine,
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Joel Freeman M.B.B.S. F.R.A.C.P. Consultant Paediatrician
Kenneth L. Zeitzer, M.D.
Interim Chairman,
Department of Radiation Oncology
Albert Einstein Medical Center
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Competing interests:
None declared
Competing interests: No competing interests