Dana Wolf
Professor
Positions: Head of the Microbiology Department and the Clinical Virology Unit, Hadassah University Hospital.
Experience: 33 years
Areas of Expertise and Treatment
Microbiology
Clinical Virology:
- viral infections;
- consultations on infectious diseases during pregnancy and their prenatal diagnosis in the fetus;
- prevention of infectious diseases;
- herpes;
- cytomegalovirus;
- Infectious mononucleosis;
- infectious skin diseases;
- infectious diseases of the respiratory tract.
EDUCATION
Graduated from the Medical Faculty of the Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Israel).
CLINICAL EXPERIENCE
- Specialization in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases at the Hadassah University Hospital (Jerusalem, Israel).
- 1990-93 – specialization in virology at the University of California (San Diego, USA) and the California State Virology Center (Berkeley, USA).
- Since 1996 – a leading specialist in the infectious diseases department at the Hadassah University Hospital.
- 1999 – specialization in virology at Stanford University (USA).
- Since 2001 – Head of the Clinical Virology Department at the Hadassah University Hospital.
AWARDS AND HONORS:
- 2006 – Prize of the Israeli Association of Microbiology.
- 2014 – Landau Prize for achievements in virology.
- Together with several leading European researchers, she received a prestigious grant from the European Union.
- nder the leadership of Professor Wolf, the Hadassah Clinical Virology Laboratory has been recognized as a National Influenza Treatment Center in cooperation with the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization, and has been selected as one of three reference laboratories for avian influenza diagnostics in Israel.
ADDITIONAL POSITIONS:
- Member of the European Virology Society Commission.
- Member of the Israeli Ministry of Health Commission on Vaccinations and Infectious Diseases.
- Member of the national epidemic management team.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
- The Israeli Association of Microbiology
- The International Association of Microbiology
- The Israeli Association of Clinical Virology
- The International Association of Clinical Virology
- The European Society of Virology
- The American Society of Virology
LANGUAGE SKILLS
English, Hebrew.
Dana Wolf
head of the Department
Total experience of 33 years
Professor
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