International Connections
20-Jun-2008
Representatives from the Liberal Democratic Party, including the head of the Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel (LFI), recently toured Hadassah Hospital-Ein Kerem for the first time and were impressed by what they heard from a Palestinian physician and a Palestinian patient about medial excellence at Hadassah.
20-Jun-2008
Celebrating Israel's 60th birthday in Tokyo are (left to right): Yasuhiko Abe, representative in Japan for Hadasit, the Hadassah Medical Center's technology transfer company; HE Nissim Ben Shitrit, Ambassador of Israel to Japan, and his wife, Carmela.
5-May-2008
Dr. Jorge Makarovsky, who directed the first Argentinean heart transplant on a child with restrictive cardiomyopathy and is a former head of Cardiovascular Pediatric Surgery and Transplantation at the Hospital Italiano in Buenos Aires, met with cardiac colleagues at the Hadassah Medical Center this winter and returned home eager to establish academic and clinical exchanges for Argentinian physicians with their counterparts at Hadassah.
5-May-2008
Dr. Mickey Weintraub, head of the Pediatric Hemato-Oncology Unit in the
Department of Pediatrics at the Hadassah Medical Center, met with pediatric hematology-oncology colleagues at Hôpital Archet, the teaching hospital in Nice, France, following through on a Memorandum of Understanding for clinical exchange that was signed between Hadassah and the University of Nice School of Medicine.
5-May-2008
United States Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services, Dr. Tevi Troy, met with Prof. Shmuel Shapira, Dean of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Braun School of Public Health and Deputy Director General of the Hadassah Medical Center, in April.
5-May-2008
Dr. José Farah, a Mexican physician from Guadalajara, will be participating in the Hadassah Medical Center’s anesthesiology residency program, thanks to some wise advice from a Hadassah International supporter at Conference 2008 in Jerusalem.
7-Apr-2008
Imagine one of the most famous entertainers in your country performing at the largest theater in your city, with all the proceeds going to the Hadassah Medical Center and you will have a taste of Young Hadassah Holland’s sold-out event...
6-Apr-2008
In collaboration with the United Nations Non-Governmental Organizations’ Committee on Health, Hadassah America’s Department of Women’s Health will be presenting a workshop entitled “What You Should Know about Cervical Cancer and the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) Vaccine” as part of the events surrounding the meetings of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), held annually at the United Nations in New York City.
19-Dec-2007
For the first time, a United Nations General Assembly committee adopted a draft resolution initiated by Israel, which calls on developed countries to make their knowledge and know-how in the field of agricultural technology more accessible to the developing world.
19-Dec-2007
Senior Paris Match Journalist Catherine Schwaab, who was linked to Hadassah by an acquaintance working in the clinic of Hadassah France President Sidney Ohana, spent three days at Hadassah’s Hospitals, which resulted in a major, in-depth article showcasing Hadassah as an island of peace and a center of innovative treatment and research.
