Prof. Ora Israel Rambam Health Care Campus and Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

Ora Israel is Director of Nuclear Medicine/PET at the Rambam Health Care Campus and Professor of Imaging at the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. Dr. Israel received her MD degree at the Institute of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest, Romania, is a graduate... read moreof the Nuclear Medicine Residency Program at Rambam and has been a Visiting Professor at the Harvard Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine in Boston. Dr. Israel has been a pioneer in the development of the novel hybrid SPECT/CT and PET/CT imaging technology since its beginnings in the late 90s. She is the author of 3 textbooks on hybrid imaging, over 150 peer-reviewed scientific articles and 20 book chapters. Dr. Israel serves on the Publication Committee of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and the Editorial Boards of various imaging journals. Dr. Israel is the 2006 laureate of the Elkeles Prize for Excellence in Research awarded by the Jewish National Fund and has been recently appointed as Associate Director for Research Operations at Rambam.