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Challenges in Israel and Worldwide
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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Northern Israel’s Second Line of Defense
Innovation
Shaping the Future of Medicine
Medical Excellence
Care Without Compromise
Honoring Life
The Universal Gift of Life
Rambam in the News
Rare Congenital Heart Defect Successfully Treated at Rambam
February 15, 2021 – A patient with a rare congenital heart defect that affects several members of her family was successfully treated at Rambam Health Care Campus. This rare defect occurs in approximately one in 1,000
Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital Holds First Tumor Board with Morocco’s Rabat Children’s Hospital
February 11, 2021 – Doctors from Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital and Rabat Children’s Hospital met virtually for the first time to share knowledge and experience, forging professional ties to facilitate collaboration between the two pediatric medical
Rambam Awarded Prize for Development that Saves 4,000 Staff Hours Each Year
February 7, 2021 – Rambam Health Care Campus recently won an award for logistics in health systems from the Director General of Israel’s Ministry of Health. The second-place award was issued by the National Council for Logistics
Rambam Among First Worldwide to Use Pioneering Artificial Skin Technology to Treat Burn Patients
February 3, 2021 – Rambam Health Care Campus is one of the first institutions in the world to use the groundbreaking portable electrospinning wound treatment system. Doctors at Rambam have so far treated dozens of patients
Recent Events
View the Recordings from the Annual Stanford-Rambam Symposium
Rambam Health Care Campus is proud to invite you to view the online recordings from this year’s Annual Stanford-Rambam Symposium, which was held virtually from November 9-11. The Symposium focused on “Disaster Preparedness and Lessons Learned
Virtual Emergency Preparedness Symposium: November 9-11
Please join us for our annual Stanford Medicine–Rambam Health Care Campus Symposium! This year’s theme is Disaster Preparedness and Lessons Learned from the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic, and aims to examine how our practices,
Rambam Physicians Discuss Biodesign and Israeli Innovation in Webinar Held by AFORAM and CICC
September 8, 2020 – A webinar titled “Strengthening Global Collaboration – How Stanford Biodesign and Rambam Biodesign Programs Help Boost Israeli Innovation” was recently hosted by American Friends of Rambam (AFORAM) and the California Israel Chamber
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.
Video Gallery
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.
