Rambam - Maimonides Medical Journal Editorial Board & Staff
Editor-in-Chief
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sergio Grinstein, Ph.D.: University of Toronto, Canada
Head, Pitblado Chair in Cell Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada; Professor of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
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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.
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Göran K. Hansson, M.D., Ph.D.: Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Professor in Experimental Cardiovascular Research, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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, USAEmail: jdmilner@niaid.nih.gov
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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.
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Fred Rosner, M.D., M.A.C.P.: Mount Sinai School of Medicine, U.S.A.
Teaching Attending Physician, Mount Sinai Services at Elmhurst Medical Center, Elmhurst, New York; Professor of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA.
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Varda Rotter, Ph.D.: Weizman Institute of Science, Israel
Head of the Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
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Murray B. Sachs, Ph.D.: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, U.S.A.
University Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Maryland, USA.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Kevin J. Williams, M.D.: Temple University, U.S.A.
Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Emeritus Editorial Board Members
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Sir John Gurdon, Kt, D.Phil., D.Sc., F.R.S.:
Laureate, the 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine; Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Administrative Staff
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Deborah Hemstreet, M.A.: Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel
Editorial Assistant, Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal; English Editor/Writer to the Administration, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel
Email: d_hemstreet@rmc.gov.il
We wish to pay tribute to the memory of one of our most esteemed founding Editorial Board members:
Professor and Chairman, Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA. Deceased October 5, 2008.