Archived News
27-Mar-2007
An elegant evening, catered by President Jayne Chait and her husband, Martin, generated new life and annual members, a great deal of good will for Hadassah International, and abundance of interest in our Medical Center. Many people, new to Hadassah, were eager to learn more about the breakthroughs at our hospitals. There was also a lively raffle and an interview with a reporter from The Jewish Chronicle.
27-Mar-2007
Hadassah Germany is proud to announce its newly expanded leadership board:
President: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Thomas Ruzicka, Munich
Vice Presidents: Elvira Skoblo, Berlin, and Ingrid Stafler, Düsseldorf
Board members:
Helga Guttman and Dr. Ben Vincent Kotowicz, Munich
Prof. Dr. med. Joachim Wolfram Dudenhausen (Charite) and Mania Feilke, Berlin
RA Martin Cygielman, Hamburg
Dr. Emil Krumholz, Frankfurt
Marlene Post, New York
Munich Committee: Marian Grafin von Deym, Hanni Kaufmann, Alexia Kaempfel,
Katya Kaempfel, Ester Drasner-Wagner, Hella Lindner, and Rosi Citronenbaum.
27-Mar-2007
Hadassah Mexico was proud to host Dr. Adolfo Roitman, Curator, Shrine of the Book, Israel Museum, for lectures in Mexico City and in Monterrey, Nevo Leon.
27-Mar-2007
Hadassah United Kingdom’s Parkinson Committee (PATH--Parkinson's At The Hadassah) sponsored a Casino Royale at a beautiful hotel overlooking the River Thames in London. About 350 people attended the event where Dr. Zvi Israel of Hadassah’s Department of Neurosurgery was the honored guest and more than $200,000 was raised to support his research into Parkinson’s disease at the Hadassah Medical Center.
27-Mar-2007
Hadassah Cuba has presented several lectures recently, including one to school children on preventing the spread of intestinal parasites. A series of lectures on Cardiac Stroke and First Aid are also in process for the entire community.
27-Mar-2007
Keeping up the momentum of the joint collaboration between The Alfred Hospital of Melbourne, Australia and the Hadassah Medical Center, four top Israeli experts in mass casualty management visited Melbourne as guests of The Alfred from February 11-16, 2007.
27-Mar-2007
Generating interest in the new Tower Campaign, Susi Shaked, President of Hadassah Austria, took a delegation on a visit to the Hadassah Medical Center in March. While at Hadassah Hospital-Ein Kerem, the participants, coming from Austria, Germany, and Switzerland, heard a detailed explanation of the architectural plans for the new tower as they viewed the impressive model. One of the participants, Magister der Architektur (Mag. Arch.) Elisabeth Schubrig, is an architect and builder who is building a hospital for vascular disease and recovery in Austria. She noted that she came away with several ideas to explore for her own hospital project. Another member of the delegation was Prof. Hartmut Köehler, Professor of Humanities at Trier University, Trier, Germany, who recently gave a presentation at a Hadassah Austria event.
27-Mar-2007
The joint venture in trauma medicine between the Hadassah Medical Center and The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, was recently featured in The Australian Jewish News.
27-Mar-2007
Prof. David Branski, Chairman of Pediatrics at the Hadassah Medical Center, and Prof. Elliot Berry, Director of the Department of Human Nutrition and Metabolism in the Braun School of Public Health of the Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Medicine, were featured speakers in a 10-day seminar on pediatrics and public health in the Argentinean province of Tucuman.
27-Mar-2007
Dr. Roman Skoblo and his wife, Elvira, Vice President of Hadassah Germany, enjoyed a visit at the Hadassah Medical Center this past February. Residents of Berlin, they have a son who is studying in Jerusalem. Since Dr. Skoblo is particularly interested in clinical microbiology, a meeting with Prof. Alon Mozes, head of the Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, was quickly arranged.
