Yaakov Naparstek

Professor
Positions: Leading Specialist of the Rheumatology Department, Hadassah University Hospital.
Experience: 43 years

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Areas of Expertise and Treatment

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EDUCATION
1972 – Graduated from the Medical Faculty of the Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Israel).

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

• Research work at the Weizmann Institute. (Rehovot, Israel).
• Specialization and research work at Tufts University (Boston, USA), National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, USA) and Stanford University (USA).
• 2000 – founded the Internal Medicine Department at the Hadassah University Hospital.
• 2000-2013 – Head of the Internal Medicine Department at the Hadassah University Hospital.
• 2013-14 – Deputy General Director of the Hadassah University Hospital for academic and research issues.

AWARDS AND HONORS:

• 2018-20 – was included in the list “The Best Doctors of Israel” published annually by FORBES magazine

ADDITIONAL POSITIONS:

• Deputy General Director of the Hadassah Clinic for Research and Academic Affairs.
• Chairman of the commissions of the Israeli Ministry of Health on cell and gene therapy.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

• The Israeli Association of Rheumatology
• The International Association of Rheumatology

LANGUAGE SKILLS
English, Hebrew.