Clinical Senior Lecturer - ICU. Chief of Critical Care Department, Galilee Medical Center, Nahariya.
MD,PhD. Clinician, scientist, innovator, educator, leader!

I'm the Head of the Critical Care Department at the Galilee Medical Center, after having trained in Medicine at the Hebrew University, residency and sub-specialty at the Hadassah - Hebrew University Medical Center (all in Israel), followed by a three-year Fellowship at St. Michael's Hospital at the University of Toronto in Canada. My approach combines personalization of care standing on top of a robust, protocolized standard of care. I focus on advanced cardiovascular monitoring, optimization of ventilation with modern techniques, neurophysiology with multi-monitoring, and performing as many diagnostic and therapeutic procedures bedside. We strive for excellence: to be at the forefront of our field through a multidisciplinary, multiprofessional, patient-centered, compassionate care model.

I'm a researcher, with a PhD in immunology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. I pursue translational and physiological research. I focus on the immunology of critical disease, harnessing biomarkers in a framework that accounts for patient heterogeneity and the complexity of diseases that evolve over time. I use advanced data analysis methods including machine learning and Bayesian analytics.

I am an innovator, with a strong and growing portafolio of novel ideas and applications in the bio-medical area. I push for constant quality improvement and knowledge translation, using modern tools to improve our practice in a manner that synergizes with institutional priorities and academic research. I have an affinity for academia-industry collaborations, such as participation in clinical trials and RnD initiatives with external companies.

Last but not least, I'm an educator and leader, with a research-based academic appointment, teaching MD students and mentoring research projects and post-graduate trainees. I participate and lead several institutional committees and projects at the hospital, university and national level. We are committed to our medical and nursing personnel's continued education and advanced training, we pursue new projects, we foster a culture of patient safety, and we lead the hospital on integrative plans and institutional developments to provide complex and critical care to all patients in need, wherever they are.