Faculty of Medicine Newsletter 50 (October 21 - November 4, 2021)
לניוזלטרים בעברית לחץ כאן.
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What Is This?
We’ll keep you in suspense. Read on.
JIMS
Prof. Mary Rudolf (emeritus) is proud to inform us that Matan Peer has received the JIMS (Journal of Israeli Medical Students) Editor's Choice Award for his article, which appears in the inaugural issue of the journal this month. His research focused on the effects of Covid 19 on the mental health and learning abilities of medical students. Also proud of this achievement are Dr. Jumana Essa Hadad and Dr. Lilach Malatsky.
JIMS was initiated by a group of Israeli medical students who saw and felt the need to encourage high level academic writing. After careful research, they discovered that Israel is lacking a student medical journal, like those found in universities worldwide, such as Yale. In addition, with 16,000 medical journals worldwide, only 2 originate in Israel – so the founding editors acted to make this idea a reality. After contacting the Israeli Medical Association and meeting with the deans of the six Israeli faculties of medicine – including Prof. Skorecki who strongly supports this endeavor – the students formed an editorial board, manual, and website.
Articles accepted for publication will be considered in lieu of the mandatory research thesis. “This is quickly becoming a hub for excellence and research, and a perfect platform to learn about academic writing and publishing,” said Guy Melamed the editor-in-chief and TAU medical student.
Two of five original research articles in the first issue are written by Azrieli students.
Welcome New International Students
The Azrieli Faculty of Medicine welcomes the following new PhD students from abroad:
Seminars
- PhD Seminar: Haploinsufficiency of CHD8 leads to distinctive gastrointestinal deficits and gut brain axis abnormalities (Iptisa Chaterjee, Dr. Evan Elliott advisor)
- Upcoming PhD Seminar: Development of an efficient reference-based method for identifying chimeric RNAs and their applications in complex diseases (Rajesh Detroja, Dr. Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern advisor)
- Faculty Seminar: Molecular control of tissue mechanics and morphogenesis (Prof. Ronen Zaidel-Bar, TAU)
- Upcoming Faculty Seminar: Cell communication in the microenvironment of the skeleton (Prof. Noam Levaot, BGU)
Congratulations
- Congratulations to Prof. Chaim Putterman, Associate Dean for Research, upon his appointment as member of the Israeli National Academy of
Science in Medicine by the Israeli Medical Association. - Congratulations to Dr. Hava Gil Henn and her lab on the selection of one of their images to be on the cover of the November 2021 issue of MBOC (Molecular Biology of the Cell journal), with the following explanation and credit:
Condolences
Condolences to Prof. Johnny Younis, Vice Dean Clinical Education, on the passing of his mother.
Website: What’s New?
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.
PLEASE NOTE: ALL PUBLICATIONS BY RESEARCHERS AT AZRIELI OR ITS AFFILIATE RESEARCH CENTERS MUST PROPERLY CITE THIS AFFILIATION: Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel. IF YOU ARE UNSURE OR NEED GUIDANCE, PLEASE CONTACT US.
- Nizar Andria, Shemy Carasso, Edo Birati, Offer Amir, Ibrahim Marai: Utilization and Complications of Catheter Ablation for Ventricular Arrhythmia in Patients with Mechanical Prosthetic Valves (J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol . )
- Khalaf Kridin: Retrospective analysis of the clinical characteristics and patient-reported outcomes in vulval lichen planus: Results from a single-center study (J Dermatol .)
- Jacob Bornstein: Vulvar High-Grade Squamous Intraepithelial Lesions and Cancer as a Risk Factor for Anal Cancer: A Review (J Low Genit Tract Dis .)
- Andrei Braester, Sahar Khouri, Bennidor Raviv, Masad Barhoum: Is There a Predictive Value of High Mean Platelet Volume in Early Diagnosis of Venous Thromboembolism? (Isr Med Assoc J)
- Maamoun Basheer, Elias Saad, Rechnitzer Hagai, Nimer Assy: Clinical Predictors of Mortality and Critical Illness in Patients with COVID-19 Pneumonia (Metabolites . )
- Offer Amir: In Search of Clinical Impact: Advanced Monitoring Technologies in Daily Heart Failure Care (J Clin Med . )
- Rola Khamisy-Farah: Fertility-Sparing Treatment of Patients with Endometrial Cancer: A Review of the Literature (J Clin Med . )
- Fabio Kusniec, Ibrahim Marai, Offer Amir: The Relationship Between Body Mass Index and In-Hospital Mortality in Patients Following Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery (Front Cardiovasc Med . )
- Einat Levy, Ohad Ronen, Eyal Sela, Eli Layos, Netanel Eisenbach, Nour Ibrahim, Amiel Dror, Amani Daoud, Tal Marshak: Inferior turbinate reduction: Comparing postoperative bleeding between different surgical techniques (J Laryngol Otol .)
- Adam Sagir: In-vivo evidence of systemic endothelial vascular dysfunction in COVID-19 (Int J Cardiol .)
- Michal Werbner, Joel Alter, Moshe Dessau, Meital Gal-Tanamy: BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine elicited antibody response in blood and milk of breastfeeding women (Nat Commun .)
- Zohar Hamo, Maya Azrad, Boris Fichtman, Avi Peretz: The Cytopathic Effect of Different Toxin Concentrations From Different Clostridioides difficile Sequence Types Strains in Vero Cells (Front Microbiol . )
- Ibrahim Marai, Matan Shimron, Eevgeni Hazanov, Wadia Kinany, Liza Grosman-Rimon, Offer Amir, Shemy Carasso: Left atrial function analysis in patients in sinus rhythm, normal left ventricular function and indeterminate diastolic function (Int J Cardiovasc
- R Khamisy-Farah: Higher rates of COVID-19 but less severe infections reported for patients on Dupilumab: a Big Data analysis of the World Health Organization VigiBase (Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci . )
- Joel Alter, Moshe Dessau, Meital Gal-Tanamy: Lower Serologic Response to COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Treated with Anti-TNFα (Gastroenterology .)
Faculty News
- jpost.com: COVID-19: Is travel solely a luxury of the vaccinated? - analysis (Prof. Michael Edelstein)
- jpost.com: Israel to recognize Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine (Prof. Michael Edelstein)
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