Yackov Berkun

Professor
Positions: Head of the Pediatric Department, Hadassah University Hospital.
Experience: 31 years

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Areas of Expertise and Treatment

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

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

• Internship at the Bikur Cholim Hospital (Jerusalem, Israel).
• Specialization in clinical immunology and allergology, general and pediatric, at the Hadassah University Hospital (Jerusalem, Israel).
• worked as deputy head of the pediatric department and senior physician of the pediatric rheumatology department of the Sheba Hospital (Tel Hashomer, Israel).
• At the same time he worked as an immunologist and founded a national center for the treatment of ataxia telangiectasia.
• Since 2011 – Head of the Pediatrics Department at the Hadassah University Hospital.

AWARDS AND HONORS:

• 2019-20 – entered the ranking “The Best Doctors of Israel”, published annually by FORBES magazine.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

• The Israeli Association of Pediatrics
• The International Association of Pediatrics

LANGUAGE SKILLS
Russian, English, Hebrew.