Hay Emile

Dr. Emile Hay - retired

Medical School  

School of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 

Specialties 

Emergency medicine and Internal Medicine 

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Former Positions 

• Deputy Director of Barzilai Medical Center
• Head of the Risk Management and Patient Safety Unit
• Head of the Department for Emergency Medicine, 1991-2002 
• Lecturer - Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev 
• Chairman of the Committee for Quality Control and Risk Management 
• Chairman of the Public Appeals Committee  
• Chairman of the Brain Death Determination Committee 
• Chairman of the Research Control Committee  
• Chairman of the Committee for Implementation of the Patient Rights Law 
• Chairman of the Medical Forms Committee  
• Member of the Institutional Review Board (Ethics Committee)  
• Member of the Emergency and Disaster Committee 
• Member of the Infections Control Committee  
• Instructor at the Medical Simulation Institute - Sheba Medical Center- Communication and Risk Management 

Current Position

Physician at the Fund for Medical Research, Infrastructure Development and Health Services

Continuing Medical Education 

• Continuing education in Emergency Medicine- Whipps Cross Hospital, London 
• Graduate of Advanced Trauma Life Support Course - ATLS 
• Graduate of Advanced Cardiac Life Support Course - ACLS 
• Graduate of ACLS Instructor Course 
• Graduate of Advanced Pediatric Life Support- APLS 
• Graduate of Focused Abdominal Sonography in Trauma (FAST) Course 
• Graduate of the Program for Health Services Management 
• Graduate of the Good Clinical Course Practice in clinical researches 

Awards 

• The Rojansky Award for Young Physicians- 1985 
• Outstanding Team Award- Barzilai Medical Center- 1997 
• Outstanding Team Award- Ministry of Health- 1997 
• Excellent Team- Civil Service Commission – 1997 
• Best Poster Award- the Israeli Convention for Quality in Medicine- 2002  

Membership in Professional Organizations in Israel and Abroad 

Israel Medical Association

State Organization of Physicians

Former Membership in National and International Committees 

• Emergency and Medicine Committee- Magen David Adom Israel 
• The Advisory Committee for the Prevention of Errors in Prescriptions- the Ministry of Health 
• The National Committee for Coding Diagnoses in Emergency Medicine Departments 

Scientific Publications 

A total of 33 publications in medical journals in Israel and abroad have been published so far. 

Unique Publications 

• Victims of the Palestinian Uprising (Intifada): A retrospective review of 220 cases. Journal of Emergency Medicine 1998;16(3):389-394
• Violence in the Emergency Department. Harefuah 1999;137(3-4):95-101 
• Quality assurance of nurse triage : consistency of results over three years. American Journal of Emergency Medicine 2001;19(2):113-117
• Postexposure rabies prophylaxis in a lymphoma patient. JAMA 2001;285(2):166-167 
• Rizatripan RPD for severe migraine in the emergency department: a multicenter study. Journal of Emergency Medicine 2003;25(3):245-249