Many posts on this site share the achievements of our faculty, students, and alumni. As time progresses, we forget what’s gone before, so here we’d like to remind you of some of the wonderful things the MSIH family have been up to in the last couple of years:
- MSIH Alumnus, Dr. Joseph Sakran, leads the movement for gun control in the US.
- Then MSIH 3rd year student, Chloe Pinto’s, research published in the British Medical Journal Case Reports. Her research focussed on the misdiagnoses of life-threatening diseases in low-income countries.
- Then MSIH Student, Jonah B. Cohen, publishes a Paper in BMJ Case Reports on the Well-Being of the Ethiopian-Israeli Community.
- MSIH alumnus Dr. Hanan Atia explains how hands-on experience gained at MSIH gave him an advantage during residency.
- Then, third-year student, Elena Soukhov wins MSIH inaugural Research Awards for participation in IVF research at Soroka University Medical Center.
- MSIH Alumna, Dr. Ariela Orkaby’s unique research into statin use in the elderly described in the New York Times.
- MSIH Alumna and Fistula surgeon, Dr. Rachel Pope highlighted in Malawi press.
- MSIH alumna Dr. Mimoza Meholli appointed Assistant Dean of students at New York’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
- MSIH makes headlines in 2018 by being the only International Medical School with a 100% Match Rate.
- MSIH Founding Faculty Member Mick Alkan: Israel’s Most Widely Traveled Physician.
- Then student, Jensen Reckhow, recounts her fascinating journey from Engineering at Yale to MSIH.
- Then student, Aaron Hochman-Zimmerman recounts his return to Marrakech – the site of his Peace Corps service.
- MSIH Alumna, Dr Katherine Horan, recognized for her work with Médecins Sans Frontières.
- Then MSIH 4th Year Student, Aaron Hochman-Zimmerman, publishes his story in “WorldView,” the Peace Corps Magazine.
- Student, Stephanie Sestito, explains her journey from the Peace Corps to MSIH.
- MSIH Alumnus, Dr. Patrick O’Connor, Team Lead for Accelerated Disease Control (ADC) at the WHO Regional Office for Europe in Copenhagen, in NYT, Global Health.
- Then second-year student Bruce Larkin describes the experiences that brought him to study medicine at MSIH.
- MSIH Alumnus, Dr. Shaanan Meyerstein of the Office of Refugee Resettlement in the Department of Health and Human Services on Working with Refugees at the US border.
- Former MSIH Teaching Assistant Dr. Amir Mor takes First Prize in “Tech Pitch” at Yale Innovation Summit.
- MSIH student, Elasaf Gilbert, wins “Smart Bedside Challenge” Health Hackathon.
- MSIH Student Iris Kamenev Volunteers at a Negev COVID-19 Testing Center.
- Student, Daniel Iluz-Freundlich part of a team that’s developing software to accelerate COVID-19 research trials.
- Engineer and MSIH Alumnus, Dr. Tobin Greensweig designs a device to allow one ventilator to treat multiple COVID-19 patients.
- MSIH Director, Prof. Alan Jotkowitz explains Medical Ethics and Coronavirus in BGU Podcast.
- MSIH Alumnus, Dr. Kent Willis, wins National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) award for research.
- COVID-19 in Low-Income Countries: MSIH learns from Global Health Partners around the World.
- MSIH Alumna, Dr. Ariela Orkaby published as lead author in the Journal of American Medical Association.
- MSIH Professor Noah Liel-Cohen: Bridging the Gap between High Tech and Low Resource Settings