Prof. Rifaat Safadi

Head of the Liver Diseases Center of the Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases Institute, Hadassah University Hospital.

Experience:

29 years

Areas of Expertise and Treatment

• Hepatology:
  • treatment of hepatitis;
  • treatment of cirrhosis.

EDUCATION

1989 – graduated from the Medical Faculty of the Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Israel).

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

• Internship at the Hadassah University Hospital (Jerusalem, Israel).
• Specialization in Internal Medicine at the Hadassah University Hospital.
• Then he completed a two-year internship in gastroenterology at the same clinic.
• 2001-2 – specialization in hepatology at the Mount Sinai Medical Center (New York, USA).

AWARDS AND HONORS:

• Sharon Donski Prize.
• Prize of the Israeli Association of Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

ADDITIONAL POSITIONS:

• Member of the Development Committee of the Somatic Cell Transplantation Center.
• Chairman of the Israeli Society of the Liver Study.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

• The Israeli Association of Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
• The International Committee of the Liver Diseases Treatment.
• The International Association of Gastroenterology and Hepatology.