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Rambam Team Participates in Trauma Seminar in Shanghai
A small delegation from Rambam Health Care Campus participated in a two-day workshop at Shanghai’s Ruijin Hospital. The workshop – part of a larger project – was initiated by a graduate of Rambam’s trauma management training program. Three senior members of Rambam’s medical staff were recently in Shanghai to provide trauma guidance for the medical staff at the city’s 2,000-bed Ruijin Hospital. Rambam Director and CEO Dr. Michael Halberthal, Director of Nursing Gila Hyams, and…
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Mass Casualty Drill Held at Rambam
A drill was conducted yesterday (April 10th) at Rambam Health Care Campus by the IDF Home Front Command, the Emergency Division of the Ministry of Health, and peer review professionals from other hospitals. Drills of this type take place once a year, and as such, a large number of processes are examined. In the current drill, the scenario began as a conventional mass casualty incident that turned into a radiation exposure event following the explosion…
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Los Angeles Event with Sinai Temple’s Rabbi David Wolpe and Prof. Rafi Beyar
On Sunday, March 31, in Los Angeles, Sinai Temple’s Rabbi David Wolpe and Rambam’s Prof. Rafi Beyar explored how Rambam is creating new paradigms for a safer and healthier world. The audience learned of Rambam’s impact on innovation, Israel’s national security, medical research and top medical care. After an intriguing presentation and dialogue between Wolpe and Beyar, the audience asked a series of questions exploring Rambam’s role in advancing medicine regionally and globally. The event…
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Newsweek: Rambam Ranked Among Top Hospitals in Israel
Rambam Health Care Campus was recently ranked as the best hospital in Northern Israel, and the third best in the nation, as part of an 11-country international study conducted by “Newsweek” magazine. The rankings were determined through a combination of recommendations from medical experts (doctors, healthcare professionals, and hospital managers), results from patient surveys, and medical KPIs (key performance indicators) on hospitals from a variety of public sources. Patient surveys conducted primarily by insurance companies…
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Hostel for Families of Children with Cancer to be Constructed Next to Rambam Hospital
A cornerstone ceremony was recently held for construction a hostel that will host pediatric cancer patients and their families coming to Rambam Health Care Campus for treatment. The hostel is the result of a collaborative effort between multiple organizations and donors. “Shoham, 11-and-a-half years old, has been coping with cancer for two years. We believe and hope that he will beat this, but at the moment he must receive treatments, and his treatment plan requires…
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Rambam Collaboration Underway with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the Technion
Collaborations between Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Rambam Health Care Campus and Technion – Israel Institute of Technology will give rise to synergistic partnerships that will advance cancer diagnosis and therapy On March 4, 2019, a preliminary face to face meeting took place at Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK). In attendance were senior leadership from MSK and Rambam Health Care Campus (RHCC) including Dr. Lisa DeAngelis, Acting Physician-in-Chief & Chief Medical Officer at MSK, Dr. Michael…
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Dr. Talma Cohen Shares her Expertise on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in South Florida
Dr. Talma Cohen, Director of the first-of-its-kind PTSD clinic in Israel, the Mental Health Center for Trauma Survivors at Rambam, offered hope and healing to the South Florida community following the one year anniversary of the infamous Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre and the more recent shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue. Her detailed presentation before a rapt audience of Israeli professional women at the “Ladies Riviera Parliament” resulted in a better understanding…
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From Lab to Life — Heart Implantation instead of Transplantation
Today, more than ever, artificial heart implantation is becoming an excellent, accessible solution for people suffering from extreme heart failure, the epidemic of the Western world. Patients no longer have to wait years for a donor heart. The third generation of artificial hearts is here, and accessibility is growing. Amna Hijazi, a 69-year-old resident of Tamra, suffered from heart failure for nearly 18 years. During the course of her illness, she was treated in the…
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Rambam’s Chief of Neurosurgery Shares his Expertise at Florida Atlantic University
Professor Gill Sviri, M.D., MSc, Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery and the Head of the Skull Base and Pituitary Program at Rambam, gave an informative and exciting presentation before a rapt audience of faculty and students from Florida Atlantic University’s medical school, which also included interested members from the Boca Raton community. The event was sponsored by the Florida Israel Institute, an organization led by Professor Daniel Raviv, which invites Israeli leaders in research,…
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Pediatric Emergency Care: Simulation Challenge – A first ever in Israel competition
Pediatric emergency care encompasses a huge body of professional knowledge and expertise administered with compassion. A first ever in Israel competition is being held to promote excellence and professionalism in these critical skills — for the benefit of Israel’s children in need of emergency care. On March 24, Israel’s first countrywide competition will be held between pediatric emergency care teams from across the country, in the area of pediatric and trauma resuscitation in medical emergency…
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Professor Rafi Beyar – Different Role, Same Vision
Dear Friends of Rambam, I have had the honor and great privilege of serving as the Director and CEO of Rambam Health Care Campus for the last thirteen years. In February 2006, after completing an outstanding six-year as Dean of the Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion, I began my new role at Rambam. Together with Eitan and Ariella Wertheimer, my predecessor Professor Moshe Revach, Professor Karl Skorecki, Dr. Esty Golan,…
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New Treatment Protects Prostate Cancer Patients from Intestinal Damage during Radiation Therapy
M., a prostate cancer patient, needed to undergo radiation treatment. However, as a carrier of a genetic mutation, this form of treatment could also endanger his health and cause intestinal tumors. A new methodology recently introduced at Rambam gives him and other patients hope. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men, with more than 2,000 new patients diagnosed each year in Israel. Most of the diagnoses are in men over the age of…
