Phone number of Professor Lea Bentur04-7774360
Dr. Lea Bentur is Director of the Pediatric Pulmonary Institute at Rambam Health Care Campus.
Dr. Bentur graduated with honors from the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and completed a residency in pediatrics cum laude at Rambam. She also completed a three-year fellowship in pediatric pulmonology at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, followed by a fellowship in adult pulmonology.
Dr. Bentur is a Clinical Associate Professor at the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine. She served for six years as Chairwoman of the Pediatric Pulmonary Association, and as head of physicians consulting the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
Dr. Bentur is actively involved in multi-center and multi-national studies, and her main areas of interest are asthma and cystic fibrosis; developing and implementing new diagnostic tools for asthma in pre-school children; and implementing new tools for diagnosis and management of asthma, such as exhaled nitric oxide (NO) and lung clearance index.
Dr. Bentur is a member of the Editorial Board of Pediatric Pulmonology, a Faculty Member in Respiratory Pediatrics, and a member of the “Linshom” Committee for patients with respiratory diseases. She has published over 110 manuscripts in her field.
Since 2011 Dr. Bentur has served as Chairperson of Quality Assurance at Ruth Children’s Hospital.
