Aplastic Anemia Treatment in Israel

Professor Shai Israeli is the Head of the Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at the Schneider Clinic.

Specialization:

• hematology;
• pediatric hematology.

He heads the Dotan Blood Cancer Research Center at Tel Aviv University. The professor is co-chairman of the Israeli National Institute of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and the head of the committee for biology and diagnostics of the international research group of hematological malignancies in childhood (blood cancer in children). Thanks to his groundbreaking research in molecular biology, a new form of childhood leukemia has been identified.

Professor Shai Israeli is the author of over 180 scientific publications in prestigious international journals. He is a frequent guest lecturer at the world’s leading medical institutions.

Membership in professional organizations:

• Israeli Association of Pediatric Hematology (ISPHO);
• Israeli Hematology Association;
• Head of Functional Genomics and Childhood Leukemia, etc.

Dr. Jerry Stein is the Head of Bone Marrow Transplantation at the Pediatric Schneider Center. The department provides assistance to the largest number of children in Israel in the field of oncohematology.

Doctor specializes in:

• bone marrow transplants;
• transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells;
• treatment of leukemia;
• lymphomas;
• various congenital and acquired hematological problems.

The Doctor is involved in international research, projects and protocols.

He is the author of over 140 international publications.

Dr. Jerry Stein was awarded the Frieda and Ephraim Winter Research Foundation Fellowship for his unique contribution to the management of quality and control processes in the framework of accreditation in the Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation of the Schneider Children’s Medical Center.

Professor Irit Avivi is included in the Forbes magazine rating as one of the best oncohematologists in Israel. The doctor conducts treatment according to the latest standards, uses progressive methods for the treatment of oncohematological diseases.

She conducts intensive research work and teaches medical students in the Department of Hematology at the Technion University. The largest hematology department at the Sourasky Medical Center operates under her supervision.

Main areas of specialization:

• Treatment of blood diseases;
• Treatment of malignant pathologies: lymphoma, myeloma, including multiple;
• Carrying out therapy aimed at improving the immunity of cancer patients;
• Performing a bone marrow transplant.

Education and clinical experience:

• She graduated from the Technion University in Haifa.
• She trained at the Rambam clinic, received her specialization as a hematologist.
• She completed an internship in the treatment of myeloma, lymphoma, bone marrow transplantation at the clinic at the University of London, UK.

Irit Avivi is a co-author of textbooks on hematology, the author of more than 50 scientific papers on hematology and oncohematology.

Membership in specialized organizations:

• Honorary Member of the European Study Group on Bone Marrow Transplantation for Lymphoma (EBMT).
• Chairman of the Israeli group of doctors involved in the treatment of myeloma.

Dr. Amos Toren is a pediatric oncologist and hematologist and head of the Hemato-Oncology Department at the Sheba Center.

He has performed over 1,500 bone marrow transplants.

Specialization:  He treats acute and chronic leukemia and lymphoma in children.

He develops a safer targeted therapy, T-CARS.

Membership:

• American Society of Hematology;
• European Society of Pediatric Hematology.

Specialist in oncopathology of the circulatory system, leading hematologist at the Institute of Hematology and Hemato-Oncology.

Ofer Spielberg is actively involved in research activities and is the author of 70 scientific publications.

Education and work experience:

• Graduate of the Faculty of Medicine at the Israeli Ben-Gurion University.
• He received his Master’s degree in Internal Medicine from Tel Aviv University and in Public Health from the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, USA.
• He was awarded the title of professor at the Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Ben-Gurion University.
• Lecturer at Tel Aviv University and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
• Leading specialist of Assuta Clinic.

She performed the first bone marrow transplant in Israel in 1979 at Hadassah Hospital.
In the late 1970s, she co-founded Israel’s first bone marrow transplant unit at Hadassah, where she served as a senior physician.
She opened a bone marrow transplantation department in Surask (Ikhiilov).

Specialization:

• lymphoma;
• myeloma;
• leukemia

Education:

• A graduate of Hadassah Hebrew University, where she specialized in hematology.
• She continued to study in the leading centers of the United States: Boston, Washington National Institute of Health.

Author of numerous scientific works.