Rambam - Maimonides Medical Journal Editorial Board & Staff

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Editor-in-Chief

  • Shraga Blazer, M.D.: Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel

    Director, Rambam Grand Rounds Lecutures, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel; Past Director, Department of Neonatology, Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel; Clinical Associate Professor, The Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel; Chair, National Statutory Committee for the Status of the Embryo and Fetus in the Medical Sciences.

    Email: blazer@rambam.health.gov.il

Associate Editors

  • Rafael Beyar, M.D., D.Sc., M.P.H.: Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel

    President, International Friends Associations, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel; Past Director, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel; Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering, Women's Division/Dr. Phillip and Sarah Gotlieb Chair, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

    Email: r_beyar@rambam.health.gov.il
  • Aaron Ciechanover, M.D., D.Sc.: Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

    Laureate, the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; Distinguished University Professor, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology; Tumor and Vascular Biology Research Center, The Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel; Chair, Scientific Advisory Board, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel.

    Email: mdaaron@tx.technion.ac.il
  • Karl L. Skorecki, M.D., F.R.C.P.(C), F.A.S.N.: Bar-Ilan University, and Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel

    Dean, Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel; Past Director of Medical and Research Development, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel; Annie Chutick Professor in Medicine (Nephrology); Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

    Email: skorecki@tx.technion.ac.il
  • Itamar Ashkenazi, M.D.: Rambam Health Care Campus and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

    Section Editor, European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery; Academic Editor, PLOS One; Chairman, Disaster and Military Surgery Section, European Society of Trauma and Emergency Surgery; Senior Lecturer, Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel; Attending Physician, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel

    Email: ITA_ASH@rambam.health.gov.il

Deputy Editors

  • Michael Aviram, D.Sc.: Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

    Bernice R. and Joseph Tanenbaum Chair in Preventive Medicine and Head, Lipid Research Laboratory, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Rappaport Research Institute, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

    Email: aviram@techunix.technion.ac.il
  • Afu Fu, Ph.D.: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

    Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Digital Molecular Analytics and Science (IDMxS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

    Email: afu.fu@ntu.edu.sg
  • Jacob Giris, M.D., Ph.D.: Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel

    Director of J. Recanati Autonomic Dysfunction Center, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel; Associate Professor of Medicine and Physiology, Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

    Email: g_jacob@rambam.health.gov.il
  • Ora Israel, M.D.: Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel

    Director, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel; Paul N. and Rose Geyser Chair in Clinical Radiology, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

    Email: o_israel@rambam.health.gov.il
  • Jacob M. Rowe, M.D., F.A.C.P.: Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel

    Chief, Department of Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel; Dresner Professor of Hemato-Oncology and Vice Dean for Clinical Appointments, Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel; Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

    Email: rowe@rambam.health.gov.il
  • Etan Z. Zimmer, M.D.: Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel

    Director, Obstetrics Unit, Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel; Clinical Associate Professor, Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

    Email: e_zimmer@rambam.health.gov.il

Editorial Board Members

  • Nir Barzilai, M.D.: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, U.S.A.

    The Ingeborg and Ira Leon Rennert Chair of Aging Research Professor of Medicine and Genetics; Director: Institute for Aging Research, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA. 

    Email: Nir.Barzilai@einstein.yu.edu
  • Henri Bismuth, M.D.: Paris South University, France

    Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Paris South University; Director of the Henri Bismuth Hepatobiliary Institute, Paul Brousse Hospital, Paris; Honorary Consultant at Public Assistance Hospitals of Paris, Paris, France. 

    Email: henri.bismuth@pbr.aphp.fr
  • Barry S. Coller, M.D.: Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA

    David Rockefeller Professor of Medicine; Head, Allen and Frances Adler Laboratory of Blood and Vascular Biology; Physician-in Chief, Rockefeller University Hospital; Vice President for Medical Affairs, Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA

    Email: collerb@mail.rockefeller.edu
  • Albert Dahan, M.D., Ph.D.: Leiden University Medical Center

    Professor of Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Email: a.dahan@lumc.nl
  • Kelvin J. A. Davies, Ph.D., D.Sc.: University of Southern California, U.S.A.

    James E. Birren Chair of Gerontology, Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center of the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology; Professor of Molecular & Computational Biology, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA. 

    Email: kelvin@usc.edu
  • Baroness Ruth Deech, D.B.E.: House of Lords, U.K.

    Chair, Bar Standards Board; Crossbench Peer; former Governor of the BBC; former Principal, St Anne’s College, Oxford and former Chair of the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority, UK. 

    Email: ruth.deech@st-annes.ox.ac.uk
  • Mark I. Evans, M.D.: Mount Sinai School of Medicine, U.S.A.

    President, Fetal Medicine Foundation of America; Director, Comprehensive Genetics and Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA. 

    Email: evans@compregen.com
  • Edward A. Fisher, M.D., Ph.D.: NYU School of Medicine, U.S.A.

    Leon H. Charney Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine; Director, Marc and Ruti Bell Vascular Biology and Disease Program, the NYU Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, NYU School of Medicine, New York, USA. 

    Email: edward.fisher@nyumc.org
  • Robert R. Goodman, M.D., Ph.D.: Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, U.S.A.

    Associate Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, USA. 

    Email: rrg2@columbia.edu
  • Ralph Green, M.D., Ph.D., F.R.C.Path: University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA

    Distinguished Professor and Chair Emeritus, Department Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA

    Email: rgreen@ucdavis.edu
  • Henry Halperin, M.D., M.A., F.A.H.A., F.H.R.S.: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, U.S.A.

    David J. Carver Professor of Medicine, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology; Director, Image Guided Intervention, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Maryland, USA; Director, Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Maryland, USA. 

    Email: hhalper@jhmi.edu
  • Göran K. Hansson, M.D., Ph.D.: Karolinska Institute, Sweden

    Professor in Experimental Cardiovascular Research, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. 

    Email: goran.hansson@ki.se
  • Asa Kasher, M.Sc., Ph.D.: Tel Aviv University, Israel

    Israel Prize Laureate; Laura Schwarz-Kipp Professor Emeritus of Professional Ethics and Philosophy of Practice and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; Editor, Philosophia (Springer). 

    Email: asakasher@hotmail.com
  • Marcel Levi, M.D., Ph.D., F.R.C.P: University College of London, UK

    President, Executive Board of the Dutch Research Council (NWO), Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Professor of Medicine, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Professor of Medicine, University College London, UK

    Email: marcel.levi@nhs.net; m.m.levi@amsterdamumc.nl
  • Gary A. Levy, M.D., F.R.C.P.(C): University of Toronto, Canada

    Director, University of Toronto Transplantation Institute, Director, Multi Organ Transplant Program, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada; CIHR/Novartis Chair in Transplantation and Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. 

    Email: glfgl2@attglobal.net
  • Marshall A. Lichtman, M.D.: University of Rochester Medical Center, U.S.A.

    Professor of Medicine (Hematology) and of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, USA; former Dean, University of Rochester School of Medicine; Past-President of the American Society of Hematology; former Executive Vice-President for Research and Medical Programs, The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. 

    Email: mal@urmc.rochester.edu
  • Friedrich C. Luft, M.D.: Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany

    Professor of Medicine, Charité-Universitätsmedizin; Director, Experimental and Clinical Research Center, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany. 

    Email: luft@charite.de
  • Joshua D. Milner, M.D.: National Institutes of Health, U.S.A.

    Chief, Allergic Inflammation Unit, Laboratory of Allergic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA 

    Email: jdmilner@niaid.nih.gov
  • Prashanth Panta, M.D.S.: Malla Reddy Institute of Dental Sciences, India

    Reader, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology
    Malla Reddy Institute of Dental Sciences 
    Hyderabad, Telangana, India

    Email: maithreya.prashanth@gmail.com
  • David Robertson, M.D.: Vanderbilt University, U.S.A.

    Director, Clinical & Translational Research Center, Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical & Translational Research; Elton Yates Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology and Neurology; Principal Investigator, Autonomic Disorders Consortium, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. 

    Email: david.robertson@vanderbilt.edu
  • Varda Rotter, Ph.D.: Weizman Institute of Science, Israel

    Head of the Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. 

    Email: varda.rotter@weizmann.ac.il
  • Ronald Schondorf, Ph.D., M.D., F.R.C.P.(C): SMBD Jewish General Hospital, Canada

    Associate Professor of Neurology; Director of Neurophysiology, SMBD Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Canada. 

    Email: Ronald.schondorf@mcgill.ca
  • Avraham Steinberg, M.D.: Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Israel

    Israel Prize Laureate; Clinical Associate Professor of Medical Ethics and Director of the Medical Ethics Unit and Senior Pediatric Neurologist, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel. 

    Email: steinberg@e-tal.org
  • Samy Suissa, Ph.D.: McGill University, Canada

    James McGill Professor of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Medicine, McGill University; Director, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology, Lady Davis Research Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Canada. 

    Email: samy.suissa@mcgill.ca
  • Jacob I. Sznajder, M.D.: Northwestern University, U.S.A.

    Editor, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine; Ernest S. Bazley Professor of Medicine and Cell and Molecular Biology; Chief, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA. 

    Email: j-sznajder@northwestern.edu
  • Alan R. Templeton, Ph.D.: Washington University, U.S.A. and University of Haifa, Israel

    Charles Rebstock Professor of Biology, Professor of Genetics and Biomedical Engineering, Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA; Part-time Full Professor of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, University of Haifa, Israel. 

    Email: templeton@biology2.wustl.edu
  • Rabbi Moses D. Tendler, Ph.D.: Yeshiva University, U.S.A.

    Isaac and Bella Tendler Chair and Professor in Medical Ethics, Yeshiva University; Professor of Biology, Department of Biology, Yeshiva College, New York, USA. 

    Email: tendler@yu.edu
  • Roy E. Weiss, M.D., Ph.D.: The University of Miami/Miller School of Medicine, U.S.A.

    Chairman, Department of Medicine, The University of Miami/Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida; Chief of Service, Jackson Memorial Hospital and The University of Miami Health System, Florida; Rabbi Morris Eformes Professor Emeritus, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA 

    Email: rweiss@med.miami.edu
  • Catherine Whiteside, M.D., Ph.D., F.R.C.P.(C): University of Toronto, Canada

    Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Vice Provost Relations with Health Care Institutions, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. 

    Email: catharine.whiteside@utoronto.ca

Emeritus Editorial Board Members

Administrative Staff

  • Deborah Hemstreet, M.A.: Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel

    Editorial Assistant, Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal and English Communications Coordinator, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel

    Email: d_hemstreet@rmc.gov.il

 

In Memoriam:

 

We wish to pay tribute to the memory of one of our most esteemed founding and past Editorial Board members:

Ernest Beutler, M.D.

Professor and Chairman, Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA. Deceased October 5, 2008. 

Murray B. Sachs, Ph.D.

University Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Maryland, USA. Deceased March 3, 2018.

Fred Rosner, M.D., M.A.C.P.

Teaching Attending Physician, Mount Sinai Services at Elmhurst Medical Center, Elmhurst, New York; Professor of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA. Deceased July, 2024.