Prof. Amos Katz
Medical School
School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University
of the Negev
Specialty
Cardiology
[email protected], [email protected]
Positions
♦ Current - Head of the Institutional Research Board
♦ Associate Professor of Cardiology - Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
♦ Member of the National Council for Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular Diseases, Ministry of Health
Clinical Experience
1980-1981- Internship, Soroka Medical Center, Beer-Sheva
1983-1985- Residency in Internal Medicine, Soroka Medical Center, Beer-Sheva
1985-1988- Fellowship in Cardiology - Soroka Medical Center, Beer-Sheva
Continuing Medical Education
1989-1990- Electrophysiology of the Heart, St. Vincent Hospital, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
1995-1996- Clinical research in Ely Lilly Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
2004- Master's degree in Health Systems Management, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
Membership in Professional Organizations in Israel and Abroad
♦ Israel Medical Association
♦ State Organization of Physicians
♦ Israel Heart Society
♦ Group on pacing and electrophysiology
♦ American Heart Association
♦ European Society of Cardiology
♦ European Heart Rhythm Association
♦ Heart Rhythm Society
Membership in National and International Committees
♦ Student Evaluation and Promotion Committee - School of Medicine, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
♦ Approval Committee - Recanati School for Health Professions, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
♦ Chairman of Academic Promotion Committee - Recanati School for Health Professions, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
♦ Coordinator of the School of Military Medicine Establishment Program
♦ The Committee for Evaluation of English Medical Schools - the Council for Higher Education of Israel
♦ The Neufeld Award Committee, Israel Heart Association
♦ Member of the Strategic Task Force Commission - North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology
Reviewer of Abstracts for Professional Associations Conventions
♦ American College of Cardiology
♦ American Heart Association
♦ Heart Rhythm Society (NASPE)
♦ European Society of Cardiology
♦ European Heart Rhythm Association
Reviewer of Medical Journals
♦ The American Journal of Cardiology
♦ Journal of the American Collage of cardiology
♦ The Science Foundation [ISF]
♦ International journal of Cardiology
♦ IMAJ - The medical Association Journal
♦ European Heart Journal
♦ Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology
♦ Heart Rhythm Society Journal
Member of Editorial Staff of Scientific Journals
The Journal of Turkish Arrhythmia Pacemaker-ICD and Interventional Electrophysiology
Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology
Active Researches and Grants
1. GIF German Israeli Research Foundation: Modulation of L-type calcium channels by ZnT-1;
mechanism and cardiovascular implications. With Prof. Arie Moran from the Physiology
Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
2. Basic Science in vivo studies (in collaboration with the physiology department; Dr. Ezion and
Prof. Arie Moran) ZnT-1 and the onset of fibrillation
a. In animal model (rodents) of atrial fibrillation
b. In human atrial tissue.
3. Implantable Cardioverter Defibrlators (ICD): Several studies.
4. Autonomic Nervous System and Cardiovascular Diseases.
5. Genetics of atrial fibrillation.
Publications
82 scientific articles in the national and internatinal journals have been published till now.
149 articles were presented at national and international conferences.
Chapters in Textbooks
Prystowsky EN and Katz A. Atrial fibrillation. In: Topol EJ (ed.) Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine: Lippincott –Raven.
First edition 1998 - Second edition 2004 - Third Edition 2006