Faculty of Medicine Newsletter 42 (May 24 - June 8, 2021)

לניוזלטרים בעברית לחץ כאן.

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Four-Year Track Student White Coat CeremonyWhite Coat

We open this Newsletter with heartfeld congratulations to the 81 students of the 9th four-year track medical school class who received their White Coats on June 2, 2021 – in person, at the Azrieli Faculty, with their families and friends in attendance. To read more, click here.

More Congratulations

  • Congratulations to Prof. Skorecki. The Faculty Council Forum meeting on June 7, 2021 recommended that his appointment as Dean of the Faculty be extended for an additional two years. The final vote will now move on to the BIU Senate.
  • Congratulations to Tom Neimarkas (Dr. Meital Gal Tanamy advisor) and Lihi Grinberg (Dr. Ron Pian advisor) on receipt of the Rector’s Prize for Outstanding Students. A ceremony was held at the BIU Ramat Gan campus on June 7, 2021.

Sivan Spitzer-Shohat Hosts Inbar at AzrieliSivan Spitzer-Shohat

On May 30, 2020, Dr. Sivan Spitzer-Shohat hosted staff from the Inbar Healthcare Management Program, a joint program of the Ministry of Health and the Maoz organization, designed to train the future generation of leaders in the public health system.

Spitzer-Shohat’s lecture discussed the importance of academia in bringing about regional change in health, and the special role of the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine in promoting health and reducing inequities in the Galilee ecosystem through the Diabetes SPHERE project.

Dr. Rizan Sakhnini, Deputy District Physician, Maccabi Northern District, also spoke about the challenges and solutions to making medical care more accessible in the North.

Special Seminar

June 3, 2021: Flying under the radar - subtle psychological mechanisms in the health care environment (Dr. Rotem Kahalon hosted by Dr. Miri Bentwich)

Bar-Ilan University Board of Trustees

The Bar-Ilan University annual Board of Trustees meetings took place May 30 – June 1, 2021, via Zoom. Moti Sonnenfeld, a supporter of the Azrieli Faculty, helped to “hood” Idan Raichel who received an honorary doctorate for his contribution to the world of Israeli and international music. The Azrieli Faculty of Medicine is well represented in the annual President’s Report that can be accessed here.

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Publications 

Reminder that publications by Azrieli faculty are generally posted in chronological order based on publication date, per PubMed listings. If you have published an article recently that appears on PubMed but that was not listed in a Newsletter, I apologize, and please do let me know.

  • Sammer Diab, Erez Kachel, Liza Grosman-Rimon, Amjad Shalabi, Offer Amir, Shemy Carasso: Coronary artery bypass graft surgery in patients on ticagrelor therapy is not associated with adverse perioperative outcomes (J Cardiothorac Surg .)
  • Tzipora C Falik-Zaccai, Hanna Mandel: Concomitant Congenital CMV Infection and Inherited Liver Diseases (Eur J Med Genet . )
  • Albert Gorski, Marwa Nahas, Lior Feintuch, Nimrod Rahamimov: Treatment of Peripheral Nerve Injuries in Syria's War Victims: Experience from a Northern Israeli Hospital (Isr Med Assoc J)
  • Eric Shinwell, Bella Lurye-Marcu: The Yield of Targeted Examination for the Detection of Symptomatic Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection (Isr Med Assoc J)
  • Salman Zarka: The Humanitarian Aid Project to the Syrian People (Isr Med AssocJ)
  • Sagi Gleitman, Gabby Elbaz-Greener, Offer Amir, Diab Ghanim: Intramural Hematoma and Free Floating Thrombus of the Aorta: An Unusual Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Complication (Isr Med Assoc J .)
  • Yedidiel Elbaz, Igor Portnov, Bela Lurie-Marcu, Eric S Shinwell: Minimally invasive surfactant therapy versus intubation for surfactant delivery in preterm infant with RDS: evaluation of safety and efficacy (J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med .)
  • Ilan Atlas: The diagnosis of endometrial cancer in women with asymptomatic endometrial polyp does not increase survival rates: an israel gynecologic oncology group study (Maturitas .)
  • Amir Mari, Wisam Sbeit, Tawfik Khoury: The interplay between pancreatic enzymes insufficiency and irritable bowel syndrome (Minerva Gastroenterol (Torino) . )
  • Assy N, Saad E, Basheer M, Assy Najib and Sbeit W: New Predictor of Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) and Advanced Fibrosis (Clinical Gastroenterologist International)
  • Basheer M, Saad E and Assy N: Methylprednisolone Decrease In - Hospital Mortality in Patients with COVID-19 Pneumonia (Japanese J Gstro Hepato.)
  • Basheer M, Saad E and Assy N: Low (HDL) Lipoprotein Levels is Strongly Correlated with The Severity of Covid -19 Pneumonia (Japanese J Gstro Hepato.)
  • Saad Elias, Sbeit Wisam, Barhoum Masad, Levy Gali, and Assy Nimer: Seasonal Patterns of Acute Esophageal Variceal Bleeding In Patients with Liver Cirrhosis (Japanese J Gstro Hepato.)
  • Elon Glassberg: Remote ischemic preconditioning improves tissue oxygenation in a porcine model of controlled hemorrhage without fluid resuscitation (Sci Rep . )
  • Khalaf Kridin, Avi Peretz, Erez Onn: Tumor necrosis factor inhibitors are associated with a decreased risk of COVID-19-associated hospitalization in patients with psoriasis- A population-based cohort study (Dermatol Ther . )
  • Nasser Sakran, Ian Gralnek, Mohamad Hamoud, Ron Dar: Gastro-colic Fistula: a Rare Complication of a Marginal Ulcer Following One Anastomosis Gastric Bypass (Obes Surg . )
  • Amiel A Dror, Amani Daoud, Eli Layous, Netanel Eisenbach, Matti Mizrachi, Doaa Rayan, Ahmad Badeer, Shawky Francis, Edward Kaykov, Masad Barhoum, Eyal Sela: Vaccine hesitancy due to vaccine country of origin, vaccine technology, and certification Eur J E
  • Hava Gil-Henn: PD-L1 recruits phospholipase C and enhances tumorigenicity of lung tumors harboring mutant forms of EGFR (Cell Rep . )
  • Omry Koren: Disruption of paternal circadian rhythm affects metabolic health in male offspring via nongerm cell factors (Sci Adv .)
  • Elon Glassberg, Avi Benov: Pain management for casualties receiving life-saving interventions in the prehospital scenario - raising awareness of our human nature (J Trauma Acute Care Surg .)
  • Elon Glassberg, Avi Benov: Trends in pre-hospital pain management following the introduction of new clinical practice guidelines (J Trauma Acute Care Surg .)
  • Avi Benov, Elon Glassberg: Trends in combat casualty care following the publication of clinical practice guidelines (J Trauma Acute Care Surg .)
  • Amir Bashkin, Wagde Abu Saleh, Mona Shehadeh, Lea Even, Ohad Ronen: Subclinical hypothyroidism or isolated high TSH in hospitalized patients with chronic heart-failure and chronic renal-failure (Sci Rep .)
  • Sophia Eilat-Tsanani, Avital Margalit: Occurrence of comorbidities in newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes patients and their impact after 11 years' follow-up (Sci Rep .)
  • Matan Schonfeld, Jacob Bornstein: Mechanically Supporting Uterosacral Ligaments for the Relief of Provoked Vulvodynia: A Randomized Pilot Trial (J Pain Res .)
  • Matti Mizrachi, Majd Hajouj, Nethanel Eizenbach, Eyal Sela: COVID-19 classification of X-ray images using deep neural networks (Eur Radiol .)
  • Gassan Moady, Shaul Atar: Takotsubo syndrome during the COVID-19 pandemic, state-of -the- art review (CJC Open .)
  • Khalaf Kridin: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)-Associated Hospitalization and Mortality in Patients with Psoriasis: A Population-Based Study (Am J Clin Dermatol . )
  • Rola Khamisy-Farah: Gynecology Meets Big Data in the Disruptive Innovation Medical Era: State-of-Art and Future Prospects (Int J Environ Res Public Health .)
  • Dor Gotshal, Maya Azrad, Zohar Hamo, Orna Nitzan, Avi Peretz: IL-16 and BCA-1 Serum Levels Are Associated with Disease Severity of C. difficile Infection (Pathogens . )
  • Ayelet Shai: Risk-Reducing Mastectomy and Reconstruction Following Prophylactic Breast Irradiation: Hope Sustained (Cancers (Basel) .)
  • Kolluru D Srikanth, Hava Gil-Henn: Cell adhesion factors in the orbitofrontal cortex control cue-induced reinstatement of cocaine seeking and amygdala-dependent goal seeking (J Neurosci .)
  • Khalaf Kridin: Is pyoderma gangrenosum associated with solid malignancies? Insights from a population-based cohort study (Australas J Dermatol . )
  • Oron Berkowitz: A novel E2F1-regulated lncRNA, LAPAS1, is required for S phase progression and cell proliferation (Oncotarget .)
  • Edo Y Birati: Mental Health Disorders and Emergency Resource Use and Outcomes in Ventricular Assist Device Supported Patients (Am Heart J .)
  • Marie Noufi Barhoum: Case Report: Neonatal Diabetes Mellitus Caused by a Novel GLIS3 Mutation in Twins (Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) .)

Faculty News

 

 

 

 

Faculty Exposure 

No English-language press media coverage was noted recently. Stay tuned (and let us know if you see anything published)!

Gallery 

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Stay Tuned – Upcoming

  • Outstanding Teacher ceremony at the Azrieli Faculty
  • Dr. Michal Carmiel-Haggai to receive BIU Outstanding Teacher Award
  • Three-year Track White Coat Ceremony
  • 10th Annual Translational Research Day (July 1, 2021 – register here; for more information here)

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