A Newsletter of the American Healthcare Professionals and Friends for Medicine in Israel www.apfmed.org 2016 We at APF would like to find us: express our deepest gratitude to the many generous benefactors who have News supported medicine in Israel for more 65 years through our organization. As we make strides to move APF into the future, we look to our dedicated network to help make this possible. APF would like to thank each and every one of Editors: Deborah Cushman and Suzanne Gerber you for your continued support and for believing in our mission. 2001 Beacon Street, Suite 210, Boston, MA 02135 phone: (617) 232-5382 • fax: (617) 739-2616 • email: [email protected] From the President Dear Friends of APF, This has been a most exciting year for APF. It kicked off in This November, one of the largest groups will attend our the spring with the Boston visit of Prof. Arnon Afek, Acting Emergency and Disaster Preparedness Course in Israel, which Associate Director General of the Israel Ministry of Health. trains North American health professionals in Israeli medical Then, Talia Levanon, Director of Israel Trauma Coalition, protocols so they can step in during times of crisis. It is headlined an enlightening and well-attended event in heart-warming to see so many people from all over the world Michigan. Another highlight was the “Eastern Seaboard Tour” participate in this important programming. of Dr. Salman Zarka, Director General of Ziv Medical Center As we forge ahead into a new year, we look forward to in Tzfat, who gave seven inspiring talks from New York to South working with other Israel-focused organizations to support our Florida. The speakers’ knowledge and energy coupled with Fellowship program. We plan to get our Fellows out more in the audiences’ enthusiastic reception is proof of our collective their U.S. and Canadian host communities to meet their North commitment to supporting the Israeli healthcare system. American counterparts. We are also planning to bring some of In June we took our next generation of APF supporters— Israel’s top leaders in the emergency and preparedness field the North American Healthcare Students group—on our to New York. annual Medical Birthright trip. Hats off to APF Director Thanks to each and every of you for your continued support. Amir Goldshtein and President-Elect Dr. Jeffrey Devries, who Without you, there is no us. organized and led the trip. Thanks to the high demand, we will take a second group of 40 students to Israel this winter. Israeli Board of Trustees 2016 Mr. David Barone Trauma Dedham, MA President Sherwood Gorbach, M.D. and Mass Robert J. Kelman, M.D., FAAEM Boston, MA New Hyde Park, NY Casualty Mr. Richard Klitzberg Nursing Immediate Past-President Boca Raton, FL Course Michael Frogel, M.D. Charles M. Kurtzer, D.P.M., FACFAS New Hyde Park, NY Livingston, NJ Thanks to the generous support of our members, the President-Elect Hilton Mirels, M.D., FACS APF was able to sponsor a course for Israeli nurses at Jeffrey M. Devries, M.D., M.P.H. Purchase, NY the Teaching Center for Trauma, Emergency and M.C.S. Huntington Woods, MI Deanna M. Sykes, R.N. at the Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa this past Cardston, Alberta, Canada fall. This course is specially designed to bring together Secretary and Treasurer Norton J. Greenberger, M.D. Mr. Jerome Tichner professionals from different hospitals and specialties Boston, MA in Israel to learn about nursing roles in emergency and Boston, MA disaster preparedness in mass-casualty situations. Marvin Wayne, M.D. Bellingham/Whatcom County, WA AMERICAN PHYSICIANS FELLOWSHIP FOR MEDICINE IN ISRAEL (APF), a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization of physicians and healthcare professionals, is committed to advancing the state of medical education, research and care in Israel by assisting in the training of young Israeli physicians and healthcare profes- sionals, and in fostering ties between the North American and Israeli healthcare communities. APF Fellows for 2016-2017 The APF Fellowships program was established in 1951 to help train Israeli physicians in specialty care. Today its awards supplemental grants to gifted Israeli physicians, who are brought to top North American institutions to further their training and conduct research they can’t do at home. When they return, they’re leaders in their fields. Or Kalchiem-Dekel, M.D. Hanan Goldberg, M.D. Shamir Geller, M.D. Gal Yaniv, M.D. Pulmonary & Critical Care Urologic Oncology Cutaneous Oncology Neuroradiology Maryland Medical Center Toronto General Hospital Memorial Sloan Kettering Yale New Haven Hospital Baltimore, MD Toronto, Canada Cancer Center School of Medicine Soroka University Medical Rabin Medical Center New York, NY New Haven, CT Center Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Chaim Sheba Medical Center Center “Thank you APF for your support in helping me achieve my mission to promote the field of advanced endoscopy in Israel. After my training in the U.S., I will be able to offer Israeli patients a larger selection of treatment opportunities with resultant less morbidity and a better quality of life.” —Dr. Idan Levy Yitschak Biton, M.D. Idan Levy, M.D. Miguel Glatstein, M.D. Liran Levy, M.D. Cardiac Electrophysiology Advanced Interventional Medical Toxicology Lung Transplantation Massachusetts General Endoscopy Rocky Mountain Poison and Toronto General Hospital Hospital California Pacific Medical Drug Center Toronto, Canada Boston, MA Center Denver, CO Hadassah Hebrew University Chaim Sheba Medical Center San Francisco, CA Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Medical Center Chaim Sheba Medical Center Center Rabea Asleh, M.D. Tomer Charas, M.D. Shay Golan, M.D. Advanced Heart Failure & Genitourinary Malignancies Urologic Oncology Transplant Cardiology Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center University of Chicago Medicine Mayo Clinic New York, NY Chicago, IL Rochester, MN Rambam Health Care Campus Rabin Medical Center Rambam Health Care Campus Barak Cohen, M.D. Ofer Havakuk, M.D. Advanced Heart Failure Yaron Barac, M.D. Perioperative Outcomes Cardiothoracic Surgery Cleveland Clinic Keck Medical Center of USC Duke University Hospital Cleveland, OH Los Angeles, CA Durham, NC Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center Rabin Medical Center Itay Fogel, M.D. Shai Shrot, M.D. Ziv Beckerman, M.D. Dermatology & Pediatric Pediatric Radiology Congenital Heart Surgery Dermatology Johns Hopkins Hospital Texas Children’s Hospital Northwestern University Baltimore, MD Houston, TX Chicago, IL Chaim Sheba Medical Center Schneider Children’s Medical Center Rambam Health Care Campus Rivka Sukenik-Halevy, M.D. Molecular Genetics University of California San Francisco, CA Meir Medical Center Emergency and Disaster Preparedness November 11*-16, 2017 Course in Israel *After Shabbat.