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The American Friends of the Rambam Medical Center is an organization established to promote and support the Rambam Health Care Campus—a premier medical institution in Israel.
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Rambam in the News
Rambam HCC performs life-saving surgery on Nablus resident
August 3, 2022 – Adel Hanaisha, a resident of Nablus in the Palestinian Authority required specialized surgery to remove a tumor in his head that only Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa could offer. Thirty-two-year-old engineer Adel
It’s a Girl! Ukrainian Refugee Shares News with Husband via WhatsApp
July 28, 2022 – The birth of a child is a joyous event but in the case of 30-year-old Vicky Shastoplov, a Ukrainian refugee, and resident of the suburbs outside of Haifa. Separated from her husband
Novel Laser Surgery Gives New Hope to Endometriosis Patients
July 24, 2022 – Endometriosis can cause severe pain during a woman’s menstrual cycle and even affect fertility. When necessary, lesions caused by it can be surgically removed. Rambam Health Care Campus is using novel laser
Rambam HCC and McGill University: Fibromyalgia pain is in the gut
July 21, 2022 – A new study conducted by Rambam HCC and McGill University scientists has found changes in women’s blood bile acids that are associated to the gut microbiome. Their research could provide a new molecular
Recent Events
Rambam and Stanford Medicine Specialists Focus on Advancing Medical Innovation, Digital Technologies, and Trauma Care at Joint Symposium
A joint Rambam and Stanford Medicine Symposium that focused on innovations in healthcare, trauma care, and digital technologies was held at Rambam Health Care Campus at the end of June. Attendees discussed critical topics to set
RAMBAM SUMMIT 2022
June 12, 2022 – After a 2-year hiatus, the Rambam Unity Summit, last week, saw the opening of the Eyal Ofer Heart Hospital, the Patricia and Albert Frank Family Cardiology Inpatient Department and a gala evening
The Neuroscience of Today is the Neurosurgery of Tomorrow
March 8, 2022 – In Los Altos, California American Friends of Rambam and American Technion Society co-hosted a captivating presentation about how technology is improving the life of people suffering from severe psychiatric, pain and degenerative
The 2022 Rambam Summit & Gala
It gives us great pleasure to announce that the 2022 Rambam Summit “United for the Future of Medicine” will be held from Tuesday, May 31 to Thursday, June 2, at Rambam Health Care Campus. The preliminary
With headquarters in New York, three regional offices throughout the US, and a dedicated, passionate staff, join American Friends of Rambam for an event near you.
Northeast Region
Ellen Pomerantz, Director, Northeast Region
EPomerantz@aforam.org or (212) 292-4499
Western Region
Sari Katz Arshadnia, Director, Western Region
SArshadnia@aforam.org or (424) 240-8083
Showcasing RAMBAM
Rambam Health Care Campus provides a variety of services ranging from patient care, training of medical professionals, in a variety of specialties, to collaborative international research impacting the world of medicine.
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Changing the World through the Gift of Life
Sammy Ofer Fortified Underground Emergency Hospital
Supporting the 2000 Bed Campaign
The Cardiovascular Hospital
Keeping Hearts Beating
The Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital
Turning Tears to Smiles
The Joseph Fishman Oncology Center
Supporting Cancer Care with Dignity
The Health Discovery Tower
Shaping the Future of Medicine
Rambam Facts
Named for 12th century physician-philosopher Rabbi Moses ben Maimon (Maimonides/ the RAMBAM), Rambam Health Care Campus is located in Haifa, a city known for cultural and religious pluralism and tolerance.
Rambam is Northern Israel’s largest and most advanced medical campus, serving more than two million people and the referral center for twelve district hospitals.
Rambam treats more trauma patients than any other hospital in the nation, and its percentage of trauma survivors is the highest in Israel.
Located only 25 miles from the northern border, we are the referral hospital for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Northern Command, the US Navy Sixth Fleet, and the UN Peacekeeping Forces posted in the region.
The Sammy Ofer Fortified Underground Emergency Hospital at Rambam is the largest of its kind in the world.
More than 3,000 health professionals from 61 countries have trained at our Teaching Center for Trauma Emergency and Mass Casualty Situations.
The world’s first human embryonic stem cell line was co-developed at Rambam, and the world’s first cardiac stem cells were created here. The world’s first human embryonic stem cell line was co-developed at Rambam, and the world’s first cardiac stem cells were created here.
The Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal (RMMJ), launched in 2010, is the first ever medical center affiliated scientific journal to be published in Israel.
Sick children from neighboring Arab countries receive medical treatment unavailable to them at home, thanks to our Middle East outreach program.
The Prometheus computerized patient-record system for paperless hospital quality management and monitoring of patient medical files was developed and marketed by Rambam.
Israel’s first Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2004) laureates, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine Professors Ciechanover and Hershko, have nurtured their scientific curiosity and achievements here, on the Rambam campus.
Rambam’s proximity to Northern Israel’s high tech scientific industrial parks has enabled R&D partnerships that have contributed to the country’s eminence in biomedicine and the life sciences.
For the first time in Israel, doctors at Rambam Medical Center performed a breakthrough procedure to treat Essential Tremor (ET), developed by InSightec, using MRI-guided ultrasound rather than performing surgery.
