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Hadassah Medical News (12 stories): First in Israel: Hadassah Performs Gynecological Surgery Via Robotics for Live Broadcast
Opportunity for Giving (1 story): Hadassah International Leaders Tour the Sarah Wetsman Davidson Tower Construction Site
Young Hadassah International (4 stories): Young Hadassah France Mobilizes Paris' Street Artists for Pediatrics
International Connections (2 stories): Save the Date! Race for the Cure Around the Walls of Old Jerusalem
News From Our Units (4 stories): Hadassah Austria Introduces Hadassah Pediatrician to Supporters at Fundraising Dinner
Editors:
Lonye Rasch, Communications Chair; Patricia Levinson, Communications Co-Chair; Karen Lustig, Communications Team
Tamar Davis, Director of Operations; Rebecca Rafelson, Development & Marketing Associate
Team email: communications@hadassah.org
 
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For the first time in Israel, two robotic, laparoscopic hysterectomies were performed by a Hadassah Medical Center surgeon in June while being broadcast live to the Tannenbaum Hall at Hadassah Hospital-Ein Kerem, where gynecologists from all over the country were watching.


Participating in the ribbon cutting ceremony
(foreground, left to right): Esti Katz, Hadassah's
Director of Patient and Family Welfare; Prof. Shlomo
Mor-Yosef, Hadassah Medical Center Director General;
Michael Dayan, Chief Executive Officer, Tambur
Painting; Ilan Shaul, Artist; and Dr. Yuval Weiss, Director,
Hadassah Hospital-Ein Kerem.  Rear (left to right): Ehud
Shauloff, Administrative Director; Amitai Rotem,
Marketing Director; and Sami Alcalay, Director of
Special Projects at Hadassah.
The once dark and gloomy walls in the corridor of Hadassah Hospital Ein-Kerem's Pediatrics Department have undergone a complete "face lift," thanks to the generosity of Artist Ilan Shaul, who brightened them with vivid wall paintings.


Dr. Snunit Shoham, a patient with a rare, life-threatening infection in her face, returned to the Hadassah Medical Center to thank the team of physicians who saved her and to present a check of 100,000 shekels to Hadassah. "You were there for us as a supporter when we had nowhere to go and no chance to come out of a real disaster," said her husband, Yaacov Shoham, to Professor Allon E. Moses, Chairman of the Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, who orchestrated his wife's complicated treatment regimen.


During the course of each 24 hours, the Hadassah Medical Center is the home of nonstop, life-enhancing and life-saving activities. Here are some statistics:


When a car arrived at the Hadassah Medical Center's Ben Gurion Plaza with a pregnant young woman already in labor and beginning to give birth, Pnina Sharon, Head Nurse of the Judy and Sidney Swartz Center for Emergency Medicine, rushed outside to help, while Hadassah's obstetricians were called out for an emergency delivery.


"You saved my son's life," the father said, "and I came to thank you. More than that, I came to help Hadassah." These were the words of a young Israeli Arab, in traditional Moslem dress, who, before leaving the hospital, stopped to express his appreciation. Osnat Moskowitz, Director of the Hadassah Medical Center's Development, Donors and Events Department, relates: "I looked at the little boy in the carriage, and saw the earnestness on the faces of his parents and I knew that medicine is a bridge to peace."


At two a.m. on a recent Friday morning, the Hadassah Medical Center installed a new $1.7 million Cyclotron System--one of a handful worldwide.


When a little girl experienced a swollen nose after a fall, her mother brought her to the emergency room, worried that perhaps the base of the skull was injured too. As it turned out, her nose was swollen because a battery was lodged inside!


A Hadassah neurologist has found that patients with severe pain that seems to have no physical origin can be helped with hypnosis.


A Hadassah neurologist has helped patients break their vicious cycles of pain through withdrawal from pain medications and recognition of certain pain syndromes.


Photo: Debbi Cooper
Dr. Yoram Ben Yehuda, head of Hadassah's pediatric emergency unit, has taken the lead in protecting children throughout Israel.


A "culinary tour" was a highlight of the day's
activities.
Reaching out into the community to empower women to become advocates for their own physical and mental health, the Hadassah Medical Center's Patricia and Russell Fleischman Women's Health Center, in partnership with the Jerusalem Municipality and Israel's Ministry of Health, hosted a Women's Health Day at Jerusalem's famed outdoor market, Machane Yehuda.



Hadassah International Leaders Tour the Sarah Wetsman Davidson Tower Construction Site

Hadassah International leaders from around the world witnessed the progress at the Sarah Wetsman Davidson construction site, during their Assembly in Jerusalem, May 31. With about 12 floors completed, some of the walls, doors, floors, and windows are now in place, enabling the viewer to visualize entry ways and patient rooms; to imagine patients and their families being nurtured in this fantastic new facility.

 

Help complete the construction—on time and on budget!
 
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Young Hadassah France mobilized 31 contemporary artists to donate original paintings and photos for a non-conventional gallery auction and party, with proceeds going toward the renovation of the pediatrics department at Hadassah Hospital-Mount Scopus.


A diverse group of participants of varying ages, religions, and backgrounds came together to walk along the canals of Amsterdam to benefit renovations at the Pediatric Department at Hadassah Hospital-Mount Scopus.


From Chanel to Prada, Christian Dior to Louis Vuitton, Young Hadassah Vienna gathered vintage clothes, jewelry, and handbag samples from top-designer brands for its vintage party and sale.


Young Hadassah Holland hosted a comedy workshop, facilitated by Dutch Comedian Gregory Shiro, with 25 Young Hadassah participants.



Hadassah, Komen for the Cure, and the municipality of Jerusalem present the first-ever Israel Race for the Cure®--a highlight of the October 25-29 Israel Mission Delegation to help ignite the breast cancer movement in Israel.


Since 1970, the Hadassah-Hebrew University Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine has educated students in public health from 84 countries, as well as Jerusalem and the Palestinian Authority. Many, once receiving their International Master of Public Health (IMPH) degree, returned to their homelands to take up prestigious positions in public health.



Prof. Eitan Kerem, Director of Pediatrics at
Hadassah Hospital-Mount Scopus
With an internationally prominent Hadassah pediatrician in town, Hadassah Austria took the opportunity to introduce him to friends--and potential friends--of Hadassah at a gala fundraising dinner and a ladies luncheon.


Left to right: Former French Minister of Human Rights Nicole
Guedj, Hadassah France President Dr. Sydney Ohana, Director
of Hadassah France Michelle Israel, Israel's Ambassador to
France HE Daniel Shek, Harpist Marielle Nordman, and Violinist
Patrice Fontanarosa
On June 17, Hadassah France hosted a concert featuring a harpist and violinist, followed by a cocktail at the residence of Israel's Ambassador to France, His Excellency Daniel Shek; on June 14, 1500 people attended the unit's "humorist soirée," showcasing four famous comedians at the Casino de Paris Theater.


Hadassah Germany is pleased to announce that Oliver Berben, head of a prominent German television film production company, has joined its Board of Governors.


Prof. Sir John Bell, President of the Academy of Medical Sciences in the United Kingdom, praised Israel for its strength in groundbreaking research, many Centers of Excellence, its lead in technological commercialization of medicine and pharmaceuticals, and strong commitment to translating research from the laboratory to the patient's bedside.



Hadassah International unites people of all faiths and nationalities in their mission to improve lives around the globe through support of pioneering medical research, teaching, and healing at the Hadassah Medical Organization in Jerusalem.

 

Transcending politics, religion, and geographical boundaries to enhance world health, the Hadassah Medical Center was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.


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