Hadassah Australia Medical Research and Collaboration Board

Dr Errol Katz MD, LLB, MPP, GAICD – Chair

Dr Russell Basser MD, FRACP - Chair of Medical Advisory Committee

Dug Pomeroy - Chair of Development Committee

Ron Finkel AM – Secretary

Dr Phillip Brenner - Director

Lynda Brest BSocSci, HDip, MBA - Director

Prof Sharon Lewin MD, FRACP, FAHMS - Director

Alan Liddle B.A. (Hons), MBA., F.A.I.C.D - Director

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This Israeli hospital serves everyone, regardless of religion or state

At Hadassah, one of the largest hospitals in Israel, there is an open-door policy for anyone in need. Whatever conflict may be going on outside, it stops at the hospital’s front doors.
When gender is ambiguous

“If a baby is born with external organs that are not completely male or female, it’s considered an emergency situation. Hadassah’s experts would fix this gender misdiagnosis, enabling the family to raise their child in synch with his biology."
Hadassah physician solves a medical mystery

Prof. Mevorach is the only doctor who treats this deadly mutation; he receives monthly requests for diagnosis from patients throughout the world. From the beginning, Prof. Mevorach’s hunch was that the disease was connected to the body’s “complement system,” which works to identify and destroy bacteria and viruses.
Editorial: an uncertain calm

The headlines screamed ‘ROCKETS FALL SILENT’ followed by ‘CALM WAS RESTORED’. The reality, as Hadassah Hospital’s Professor Esti Galili-Weisstub tells us, is that while the first headline is a welcome statement of fact, the second lacks nuance. And we ignore that at our peril.