Dean Medicine Bar-Ilan

Socially accountable young and vibrant medical faculty dedicated to science and humanism in medical education, for promoting health in the Galilee of Israel.

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Read up about what's been happening at the #AzrieliFacultyofMedicine of Bar-Ilan #University, online newsletter here: https://t.co/A5P9EMTjeF

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Congrats to Dr. Maayan Gruber, senior clinical lecturer at Azrieli, and head of pediatric ENT and pediatric otolaryngology specialist at GMC, and MD student Rozeen Abu Shqara, on being awarded prize for excellent clinical research at recent national ENT conference in Eilat.

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Professor Yechiel Sweed (GMC) has informed me that student Ethel Abramov's abstract Pediatric Electrical Bicycle Road Accidents has been accepted for Quick poster shot presentation at 21st June EUPSA Congress. Hoping this encourages other Azrieli Faculty BIU students!

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Important early view Geriatrics & Gerontology Int'l article by Dr. Nir Tsabar on whether alerting clinicians to severe weight loss in older patients leads to higher dietitian visit rates, to higher BMI and, mainly, to lower annual death risk. https://t.co/ZZIt7D6L2R.

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Dr. Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern's team the only Israeli group taking part in genomics and transcriptomics studies of PCAWG. Two PanCancer papers just published in Nature, among five papers published in Nature from the PanCancer consortium.@Milana_FM

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Congrats Dr. David Peleg for 2018 “Randomized clinical trial of knotless barbed suture v conventional suture for closure of uterine incision at Cesarean delivery”- of top-cited papers over last 2 yrs in AJOG, and mention at Awards Ceremony at Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine.

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Congrats to Dr. Ayelet Shai who was invited to join the new interdisciplinary research fellows forum at the Intl Center for Health, Law, and Ethics at Haifa U. Her current research will include gender and medicine and end of life care, in light of the Dying Patient Act (2005).

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Congratulations to Dr. Erez Onn, General Director of The Baruch Padeh Medical Center, Poria (an Azrieli Faculty of Medicine affiliate hospital) on his appointment as Head of the Government Hospitals Division. https://t.co/l63i0JwVnf

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Great article "Study Finds Link Between Genes and Education Level. Will This Reinforce Stereotypes?" quoting Dr. Miriam Bentwich in last weekend's Haaretz: https://t.co/yFo0UgyPyt #DNA #genetics #education #genome

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Congrats Dr. Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern (head, Cancer Genomics and BioComputing of Complex Diseases lab) upon receipt of "Fast Track Milestone grant" from Rambam hospital. Project: "Biomarkers development in Alzheimer's disease," in collaboration with Prof. Judith Aharon-Peretz.

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Dr. Salman Zarka, Director of Ziv Medical Center in Safed, an Azrieli Faculty of Medicine affiliated academic medical center, is designated as one of the ten most people who have contributed to health in Israel during the past decade.

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Congratulations to Dr. Menachem Fisher on decision of the Israel Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology to acknowledge his excellent achievements in advancing patient care, ob/gyn and fertility in Israel. #ISOG #gynecology #obstetrics #clalit

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Dr. Avi Peretz, representing the Faculty, was just elected to the ISPPTD (Israeli Society for Parasitology, Protozoology and Tropical Diseases) board. Great news for the Faculty and for future research on tropical diseases. #ISPPTD #microbiology

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Looking forward to hearing about Dr. Ayelet Shai's (GMC/BIU) research contributions at the multidisciplinary Int'l Center for Health, Law and Ethics - UNESCO Chair in Bioethics at Haifa U. Congratulations on the new appointment. #UNESCO #bioethics

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New Chimeric RNA research publications from Dr. Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern, head of Cancer Genomics and BioComputing of Complex Diseases lab https://t.co/JUEXKOJoHC and https://t.co/mCQXbQapj4 #cancer #genomics

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Omry Koren - highly cited also for 2018 (as for 2017)

Scientists and researchers are reading and referencing Omry's research - confirming impact and importance.

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For those concerned about designing smarter babies - important study in Cell by Ehud Karavani, Or Zuk Danny Zeevi, Max Lam, Todd Lencz, Shai Carmi - importantly shows limited utility of screening for polygenic traits.

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Congrats on new Oncogene publication by our @TomerMeirson , @HavaHenn and Abraham O. Samson: "Invasion and metastasis: the elusive hallmark of cancer" (https://t.co/fYnTUyZ33g). See also @TomerMeirson 's Lancet "A critique of the fragility index" (https://t.co/eCtfsbBstr).

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New from Dr. Sophia Eilat-Tsanani, Faculty of Medicine: Statin Use Over 65 Years of Age and All-Cause Mortality: A 10-Year Follow-Up of 19 518 People (J Am Geriatr Soc 67:2038-2044,2019) #statin #geriatric #cardiovascular

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ברכות לדר. לילך מלצקי ודר. ג'ומאנה עיסא-חדד על סדנא בנושא פיתוח תכניות הוראה באורחות חיים והצגת הנעשה בפקולטה עם משובים חיוביים מאד מהקהל בכינוס בינלאומי ברומא בימים אלו.