Faculty of Medicine Newsletter 51 (November 5-21, 2021)

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This issue of the Newsletter is Dedicated to

The Russell Berrie Galilee Diabetes SPHERE

ספֵרת הסוכרת ע"ש ראסל ברי

SPHERE tree logo

 

The Launch, November 16, 2021Shlomo Zohar and Angelica Berrie

During the week commemorating World Diabetes Day (November 14, 2021), the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine of Bar-Ilan University launched The Russell Berrie Galilee Diabetes SPHERE, a $75 million initiative designed to tackle diabetes and reduce healthcare disparities in the Galilee while developing innovations with global impact.

The event was extensively covered in the local and international press, as you can see from the small sampling in the following pages.

Feel free to click on the headlines, to learn more about this exciting venture.

We wish success to Dr. Sivan Spitzer who was most instrumental in all of the planning and development stages (and who served as Master of Ceremonies at the launch), as well as Prof. Naim Shehadeh who will be serving as Director of the SPHERE. Dr. Spitzer as well as Prof. Chaim Putterman and Dr. Ron Piran will be Deputy Directors.

The Russell Berrie Foundation press release can be read here; Bar-Ilan U. press release can be read here (in Hebrew, here); and pictures from the launch can be seen here. Below is the Declaration that was signed at the gala event.

SPHERE declaration

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selected SPHERE Launch Press Coverage

 

Click on the images to see the articles online. Or, visit our site here.

Israelhayom.com:

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TimesofIsrael.com:

timesofisrael

 

 

 

 

 

JPost.com:

jpost

 

 

 

 

 

JewishPress.com:

jewishpress

 

 

 

Mako.co.il:

mako

 

Hayadan.org.il:

hayadan

 

 

 

 

Galatz radio:

galatz

 

 

 

Maariv:

maariv

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

m.panet.co.il:

m-panet

 

 

 

 

Makan.org.il (Arabic, from minute 31:30)

Juedische-allgemeine.de:

german press

 

 

 

 

 

 

Visavis.com.ar:

visavis

 

 

 

 

Israelnoticias.com:

israelnoticias

 

 

fr.timesofisrael.com:

french timesosisrael

 

 

 

 

Seminars

  • 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: Cell communication in the microenvironment of the skeleton (Prof. Noam Levaot, BGU)
  • Faculty Seminar: Targeting Vasculogenic Mimicry, Invasion and Cancer Cell : Endothelial Interactions; Endostatin Revisited (Joseph Rosenblatt, University of Miami)

Condolences

Condolences to Dr. Hadas Shasha-Lavsky (Galilee Medical Center) on the passing of her father, Prof. Shaul Shasha.

Upcoming: Diabetes - How do we stop this silent world epidemic? (Prof. Naim Shehadeh and Prof. Karl Skorecki), November 25, 2021 @ 19:30, Zoom

Shehadeh lecture

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click above to register.

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.

  • Jordan Ho, Muhammad Mansour, David Gomez: Subway-related trauma at a level 1 trauma centre in Toronto, Ontario (Can J Surg . )
  • Ayala Glinert, Sondra Turjeman, Evan Elliott, Omry Koren: Microbes, metabolites and (synaptic) malleability, oh my! The effect of the microbiome on synaptic plasticity (Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc)
  • Manny Menachem Arieli, Ziv Paz: The Profile of the Causative Organisms which Lead to Septic Arthritis of Native Joints Over the Last Two Decades in a Single Tertiary Medical Center in the East Coast of the United States (Int J Clin Pract . )
  • Edo Y Birati: Impact of Age on Emergency Resource Utilization and Outcomes in Pediatric and Young Adult Patients Supported with a Ventricular Assist Device (ASAIO J .)
  • Elon Glassberg, Avi Benov: High Success Rate of Prehospital and En Route Cricothyroidotomy Performed in the Israel Defense Forces: 20 Years of Experience (Prehosp Disaster Med . )
  • Yanay Gorelik, Michael Edelstein: Inequalities in initiation of COVID19 vaccination by age and population group in Israel- December 2020-July 2021 (Lancet Reg Health Eur .)
  • Sondra Turjeman, Omry Koren: Using the microbiome in clinical practice (Microb Biotechnol . )
  • Meri Shamay: Latently KSHV-Infected Cells Promote Further Establishment of Latency upon Superinfection with KSHV (Int J Mol Sci . )

Gallery

Launch of The Russell Berrie Galilee Diabetes SPHERE (November 2021) Shehadeh, Spitzer, Silman

 

 

 

Faculty Exposure 

See above for press coverage of the SPHERE launch.

Faculty News 

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