Major research projects:
1993-1994 The pharmacology of brain-stem auditory evoked potentials in the rat. Experimental Neurology Laboratory, Department of Neurology, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
2000 Metabolism of N-acetyl aspartate in rat glial cells – implications for Canavan Disease. Department of Biochemistry, Hadassah Medical School, and Department of Neurology, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
2002-2008 Mechanical allodynia in migraine and other headaches: prevalence and mechanisms. Department of Neurology, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2003-2007 The effects of greater occipital nerve block on pain in migraine and other headaches. Department of Neurology, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2005-2008 Phonophobia in migraine: quantitative assessment and association with other disease characteristics. Department of Neurology, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Faculty appointments:
1998 – 2001 Instructor, Department of Neurology, Hadassah Medical School, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
2001 – 2002 Instructor, Department of Medicine (Neurology section) Dartmouth Medical School, Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH, USA
2005 – 2008 Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Hospital staff appointments:
2000 – 2001 Attending Physician, Department of Neurology, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
2005 – 2008 Attending Physician, Department of Neurology, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2009 – 2016 Neurologist Doylestown Health Neurology Doylestown, PA, USA
2009 – 2011 Neurologist Grand View Hospital, Sellersville, PA, USA
2011 – 2014 Director, Stroke Program Doylestown Hospital Doylestown, PA, USA
2019 – present Senior Neurologist Director, Headache Clinic Neurology Department Shaare Zedek Medical Center Jerusalem, Israel
Other employments:
2009 – 2011 The Neurologic Group of Bucks/Montgomery County, PA, USA
2017 – 2018 Veteran Evaluation Services (VES) – Philadelphia, PA, USA
2018 – 2019 IMA – evaluating veterans with traumatic brain injury. Philadelphia, PA, USA
Board certification:
Israel Board of Neurology 2000
Board Membership:
Israel Headache Society 2019
Awards:
1990 Student Excellence Award – Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
2001 American Headache Society (AHS) Travel Award to the Scottsdale Headache Symposium, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
2003 American Headache Society Travel Award to the AHS Scientific Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA
2004 American Headache Society Travel Award to the AHS meeting, Cancun, Mexico
2008 American Academy of Neurology Harold Wolff-John Graham Award for outstanding achievement in Headache and Facial Pain Research
Grants:
Merck US Investigator-Initiated Studies Program #31402 – “sound sensitivity
(phonophobia) in migraine and its relation to cutaneous allodynia” – Principal investigator. $50 000
Clinical Trials experience:
- Co- investigator in multiple Headache clinical trials at Thomas
Jefferson University Hospital 2005-2008
- CRYSTAL AF study – Medtronic, USA Co-PI Doylestown Hospital, PA, USA 2012
- RIME study – Combined occipital and supraorbital transcutaneous nerve stimulation for the treatment of migraine – PI Neurolief, Israel 2019
- Nerivio TCH-006 clinical study. Remote neurostimulation for the treatment of migraine – Co-I Theranica, Israel 2019
Membership in professional societies:
1993 – 2001; 2019 – Israel Medical Association
1995 – 2001; 2019 – Israel Neurological Society
1999 – present American Academy of Neurology
2001 – present American Headache Society
2003 – present International Headache Society
1999 – 2001 European Neurological Society
2016 – 2019 Pennsylvania Medical Society
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