This year 18 scholarships were awarded to outstanding Israeli physicians who are doing fellowship programs around the world. The scholarships, in the amount of 16,000 NIS each, were raised from the Israeli Medical Association, the Organization of Clalit physicians, the Organization of State Employee Physicians, Kaplan Medical Center, Rambam Medical Center, Sheba Medical Center, the Sheba Medical Center Physicians’ Committee, and an individual donation from Canada.
The members of the scholarship selection committee were Dr. Zeev Feldman, Dr. Esther Barchilon, Dr. Elad Goldberg and Dr. Ehud Miron.
A ceremony was held at the IMA offices in June and the doctors were presented with their awards. The scholarships were given in memory of physicians who have passed away. Each of the memorialized physicians was dedicated to medicine and to his or her patients, both in Israel and around the world. Their families joined the ceremony to honor their memories.
The 2015 IMA scholarship recipients are:
Dr. Eva Platner – Fellowship in Ophthalmology at the UCLA Jules Stein Eye Institute in Los Angeles, California, USA. Her scholarship was awarded in memory of Prof. Justin Paswell.
Dr. Barak Rosenzweig – Fellowship in Urologic Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, New York, USA. His scholarship was awarded in memory of Prof. Rami Czerniak.
Dr. Ronen Bar-Yosef – Fellowship in Pediatrics at the Irvine Pediatric Exercise and Genomics Research Center in Irvine, California, USA. His scholarship was awarded in memory of Prof. Yosef Brandes.
Dr. Kfir Feffer – Fellowship in Psychiatry at the MRI Guided rTMS Clinic at Toronto Western Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His scholarship was awarded in memory of Prof. Marjiah Fouad.
Dr. Gil Shechter Maor – Fellowship in Gynecology at the McGill University Maternal/Fetal Medicine Program in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Her scholarship was awarded in memory of Dr. Clara Friedman.
Dr. Assaf Issachar – Fellowship in Gastroenterology at the Toronto General Hospital Multi-Organ Transplant Program in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His scholarship was awarded in memory of Prof. Moshe Mazor.
Dr. Adi Weintraub – Fellowship in Urogynecology at the Urologische Klinik und Poliklinik at the Charité Campus Benjamin Franklin in Berlin, Germany. His scholarship was awarded in memory of Prof. Moshe Mazor.
Dr. Muneer Abu Snineh – Fellowship in Neurology at the Movement Disorders Unit of Alberta University of Medicine in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. His scholarship was awarded in memory of Prof. Shmuel Nisan.
Dr. Tomer Adar – Fellowship in Gastroenterology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. His scholarship was awarded in memory of Prof. Yechiel Ziv.
Dr. Sabri El Saied – Fellowship in Otorhinolaryngology at Hannover Medical School in Hannover, Germany. His scholarship was awarded in memory of Prof. Midad Shiller.
Dr. Meir Mizrahi – Fellowship in Gastroenterology at the Advanced Endoscopy at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. His scholarship was awarded in memory of Prof. Bernardo Ackerman.
Dr. Oded Goren – Fellowship in Neurovascular Neurosurgery at the Swedish Neuroscience Institute in Seattle, Washington, USA. His scholarship was awarded in memory of Dr. Jean Choukroun.
Dr. Shadi Badan – Fellowship in Urology at the Baylor College of Medicine Medical Center in Houston, Texas, USA. His scholarship was awarded in memory of Dr. Benny Kupler.
Dr. David Hausner – Fellowship in Palliative Care at the Princess Margaret Cancer Center in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His scholarship was awarded in memory of Dr. Gideon Manelis.
Dr. Shimrit Ilana Ziv – Fellowship in Pediatrics at the Autism Research Centre of at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, UK. Her scholarship was awarded in memory of Dr. Huri Jabbour and Dr. Michael Landers.
Dr. Zeev Israeli – Fellowship in Cardiology at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada. His scholarship was awarded in memory of Dr. Shmuel Friedman.
Dr. Amir Hadayer – Fellowship in Ophthalmology at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. His scholarship was awarded in memory of Dr. Mordecai Shtalrid.
Dr. Jigal Haas – Fellowship in Gynecology at the Toronto Center for Advanced Reproductive Technology (TCART) at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Photos by: Itzick Biran. Recipients of the IMA World Fellowship's 2015 Scholarships at the awards ceremony in June.
