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The Clinical Research Institute at Rambam (CRIR)

Doctor Contact informationProfessor Lior Gepstein

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Professor Lior Gepstein

Professor Lior Gepstein is the director of the Department of Cardiology and the Division of Research at Rambam Health Care Campus. He is also a Professor of Physiology and Medicine (Cardiology) at the Technion’s Faculty of Medicine and holds the Edna and Jonathan Sohnis Chair in Tissue Engineering a...

Doctor Contact informationDr. Shlomit Yehudai-Reshef

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Dr. Shlomit Yehudai-Reshef

Dr. Shlomit Yehudai-Reshef completed her PhD in Biology in 2003 at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Dr. Yehudai-Reshef pursued her postdoctoral research from 2003-2006 at Cornell University, New York, USA.

In 2008, she joined the Physics Department at the Technion, as a researc...

Doctor Contact informationDr. Suheir Assady

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Dr. Suheir Assady

Dr. Assady graduated from Hadassah Medical School, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (BSc in Medical Sciences (cum laude) in 1988, Doctor of Medicine in 1992) and received her PhD in 2008 from the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (the Technion). She completed...

Doctor Contact informationProfessor Benjamin Brenner

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Professor Benjamin Brenner

Benjamin Brenner received his MD from the Technion’s Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine in Haifa, Israel (1981). He trained in Internal Medicine and Hematology at Rambam Health Care Campus (HCC) and completed his post-doctoral research in coagulation at the University of Rochester in 1994....

Doctor Contact informationDr. Oren Caspi

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Dr. Oren Caspi

Dr. Oren Caspi is the Director of the Heart Failure Unit and Head of Rambam’s Cardiovascular Research and Innovation Center. He serves as an assistant professor heading the Laboratory for Cardiovascular Precision Medicine at the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology...

Doctor Contact informationDr. Ofer Fainaru

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Dr. Ofer Fainaru

Ofer Fainaru, MD, PhD is a Senior Reproductive Endocrinologist, Acting director of IVF unit at Rambam Medical Center; Assistant Professor at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology; Completed his MD Degree Summa Cum Laude (1998) at Tel Aviv University and his PhD at the Department of Molecular Gen...

Doctor Contact informationProfessor Izhak Kehat

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Professor Izhak Kehat

Dr. Izhak Kehat is an Attending Cardiologist in the Echo Lab in the Department of Cardiology at Rambam Health Care Campus. He also heads the Cardiovascular System Biology Lab at the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and the Molecular Cardiology Lab at the C...

Doctor Contact informationDr. Netanel Horowitz

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Dr. Netanel Horowitz

Dr. Netanel Horowitz is a senior physician and the Head of clinical trials at the Hematology Institute of Rambam Health Care Campus. He is Israeli board certified in internal medicine and hematology, and specializes in hematological malignancies and diagnosis and treatment of coagulation and bleedin...

Doctor Contact informationDr. Itay Maza

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Dr. Itay Maza

Dr Itay Maza is an Attending Physician in the Gastroenterology Unit at Rambam Health Care Campus.

Dr. Maza is a graduate of the Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and trained in internal medicine and gastroenterology at Rambam. He also earned a...

Doctor Contact informationProfessor Hadar Zigdon

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Professor Hadar Zigdon

Hadar Zigdon-Giladi (D.M.D., Ph.D) is a periodontal surgeon and researcher in the field of bone regeneration, and the Deputy Director, in the Department of Periodontology at Rambam Health Care Campus. She is also a clinical instructor in the Department of Periodontology, Head of the Laboratory for B...

Doctor Contact informationDr. Ruth Perets

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Dr. Ruth Perets

Dr. Ruth Perets is a Medical Oncologist  and Researcher in Rambam's Division of Oncology. She directs the Phase 1 Clinical Trials in Oncology and is the Head of the Women's Cancers Research Lab at Rambam Health Care Campus. Dr. Perets graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the Hebrew Univer...

Doctor Contact informationDr. Aeyal Raz

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Dr. Aeyal Raz

Dr. Aeyal Raz is Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at Rambam Health Care Campus.

Dr. Raz completed his medical studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where he also earned a PhD in neurobiology, both in 2001. Following an internship at the Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center,...

Doctor Contact informationDr. Karin Weiss

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Dr. Karin Weiss

Dr. Karin Weiss is the Director of the Genetics Institute at Rambam Health Care Campus and a Lecturer at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology's Rappaport Faculty of Medicine. A graduate of the Sackler Faculty of Medicine in Tel Aviv University (2008), Dr. Weiss completed her pediatrics resid...

Doctor Contact informationProfessor Zila Zuckerman

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Professor Zila Zuckerman

Dr. Tsila Zuckerman is Director of the Department of Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation at Rambam Health Care Campus and Clinical Associate Professor at the Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. Her teaching activities include coordina...

Doctor Contact informationDr. Emily Avitan

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Dr. Emily Avitan

Dr. Emily Avitan-Hersh is Chair of the Department of Dermatology at Rambam Health Care Campus and Head of the skin cancer research lab at CRIR. Dr. Avitan-Hersh graduated (Cum Laude) from the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and completed her residency in...

Doctor Contact informationDr. Erez Hasnis

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Dr. Erez Hasnis

Erez Hasnis is Senior Physician, Department of Internal Medicine D and Gastointestinal Malignancy Prevention Unit, Institute of Gastroenterology at Rambam Health Care Campus.

Dr. Hasnis graduated from the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion, Haifa, where he completed both his MD...

Doctor Contact informationDr. Inna Tzoran

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Dr. Inna Tzoran

Dr. Tzoran is an Attending Physician and Specialist in Hematology and Internal Medicine. Since 2011 she has served at Rambam as Deputy Director of Internal Medicine C Department, and as Deputy Director of the Internal Medicine Division since 2014. She is also a Senior Hematologist at the Department...

Doctor Contact informationDr. Michal Meir

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Dr. Michal Meir

Dr. Meir is an active senior physician in pediatric infectious diseases, and a Senior Clinical Lecturer in the Ruth Rapport Faculty of Medicine in the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. Dr. Michal Meir completed her medical doctoral degree at the Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Medicine in...

Doctor Contact informationProfessor Daniella Magen

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Professor Daniella Magen

Prof. Daniella Magen us the Director of the Pediatric Nephrology Institute and Chair of Pediatrics at Rambam Health Care Campus.
Prof. Daniella Magen graduated with honors from the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, and received her clinical training in pediatrics and pediatric nephrology at Rambam....

Doctor Contact informationDr. Amir Minerbi

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Dr. Amir Minerbi

Dr. Amir Minerbi was appointed deputy director of the Pain Medicine Institute in 2020 and has been its director since 2024. A graduate of the MD-PhD program (2009) of the The Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Dr. Minerbi subsequently comp...

Doctor Contact informationDr. Yaniv Dotan

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Dr. Yaniv Dotan

  • Director, Institute of Pulmonology
  • Director, Pulmonology Institute
  • Director, Pulmonology Institute
  • Director, Institute of Pulmonology
  • Director, Pulmonology Institute
  • Director, Pulmonology Institute
  • Director, Institute of Pulmonology
  • Associate Member, CRIR
  • Associate Member, Kehat Lab, CRIR

Doctor Contact informationProfessor Karl Skorecki

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Professor Karl Skorecki

Karl Skorecki received his MD degree from the University of Toronto in 1977. Between 1977-1984, he pursued postgraduate clinical and research training in Internal Medicine, Nephrology, and Molecular Biology at the Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in B...

Doctor Contact informationDr. Ofrat Beyar Katz

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Dr. Ofrat Beyar Katz

Dr. Ofrat Beyar-Katz is director of the Cellular Immunotherapy Unit, in the Institute of Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation, an associate member of the Clinical Research Institute at Rambam (CRIR), and the principal investigator of the hospital’s Center for Cellular Immunotherapy. She recei...

Doctor Contact informationDr. Imad Matanes

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Dr. Imad Matanes

Doctor Contact informationDr. Haggai Bar-Yoseph

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Dr. Haggai Bar-Yoseph

Dr. Haggai Bar-Yoseph is a senior gastroenterologist and leads the research laboratory of the Department of Gastroenterology at Rambam Health Care Campus. Dr. Bar-Yoseph focuses on the treatment of malnourished and obese patients in Rambam’s nutrition clinic. He is also the clinical leader of the Mi...

Doctor Contact informationProfessor Ido Solt

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Professor Ido Solt

  • Director, High Risk Pregnancy Service
  • Director, High Risk Pregnancy Service
  • CRIR Member
  • Director, High Risk Pregnancy Service
  • Director, High Risk Pregnancy Service
  • Director, High Risk Pregnancy Service
  • Director, High Risk Pregnancy Service
  • Director, High Risk Pregnancy Service
Professor Ido Solt is Director of the High Risk Pregnancy Service at Rambam. Married and the father of five, Professor Solt received his MD in 1997 from the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa, Israel), with honors. Following an internsh...

Doctor Contact informationDr. Shahar Shelly

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Dr. Shahar Shelly

Dr. Shahar Shelly is an accomplished senior neurologist with expertise in neuromuscular disorders and electrophysiology. He is the head of the Neuromuscular Disease Clinic and Clinical Electrophysiology in the Department of Neurology at Rambam Health Care Campus and an associate professor of neurolo...

Doctor Contact informationDr. Wasim Nasser

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Dr. Wasim Nasser

Dr. Waseem Nasser is a resident in the Department of Ophthalmology. His research focusses on understanding the processes of tissue recovery from stem cell loss. More specifically, his work examines the cellular dynamics and molecular pathways upon total stem cell loss or mutation in the adult corn...