Prof. Yoram Yagil
Medical School
School of Medicine, Hadassah, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Specialties
Internal Medicine and Nephrology
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Positions
♦ Current - Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Barzilai Medical Center
♦ Current - Head of the Research and Development Unit
♦ Current - Director of the Israeli Rat Genome Center
♦ Current - Chairman of the Ethics Committee for Research in Animals- Barzilai Medical Center
♦ Senior Advisor for Nephrology and Blood Pressure- the IDF
♦ Founder and coordinator of the Program for Health Services for UN employees in Gaza
♦ Coordinator of the nephrology program of the School of International Medicine, Ben Gurion University
of the Negev
Clinical Experience and Continuing Medical Education
♦ 1978-1979 Rotating Internship: Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem
♦ 1979-1984 Residency in Internal Medicine: Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem
♦ 1984-1985 Clinical and Research Fellow: Hypertension Division, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New
York, NY
♦ 1985-1986- Clinical Fellow: Nephrology Division, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
♦ 1986-1987- Research Fellow: Nephrology Division, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
♦ 1987-1988 Research Fellow and Instructor: Nephrology Unit, Department of Medicine, University of
Rochester, Rochester, NY
Academic Appointment
Professor of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Membership in Professional Organizations in Israel and Abroad
♦ Israel Medical Association
♦ State Organization of Physicians
♦ Israeli Society of Hypertension
♦ American Society of Hypertension
♦ European Society of Hypertension
♦ International Society of Hypertension
♦ American Society of Physiology
♦ American Society of Nephrology
♦ International Society of Nephrology
♦ European Renal Association
♦ Fellow of the High Blood Pressure Research Council of the AHA
Membership in National and International Committees
♦ Member of the Central Education Committee, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of
the Negev
♦ Chairman of the Counseling Committee for Water and Dialysis
♦ Chairman of the Counseling Committee for Standardization of Equipment for Dialysis
♦ Member of the Nephrology and Internal Medicine Examination Board - Israeli Scientific Council
♦ Member of the International Advisory Board - SHR Council
♦ Member of EURHYPGEN - the European Hypertension Genetics group, sponsored by the European
Community
Reviewer of Research Requests
♦ Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Health (Mad'an Rashi) Chair of the Review Committee 2001-2005
♦ German Israeli Fund (GIF)
♦ Israeli Science Foundation (Academia) Member of the Review Committee 2001
♦ Ben-Gurion University intramural grants
♦ Hebrew University and Hadassah intramural grants
♦ Technion intramural grants
♦ Tel-Aviv University intramural grants
♦ Telethon, Italy
♦ Welcome Foundation, United Kingdom
Scientific Journal Reviewer
♦ Harefuah
♦ Israel Journal of Medical Sciences
♦ Hypertension
♦ Circulation
♦ Journal of Hypertension
♦ American Journal of Physiology
♦ Physiological Genomics
♦ Nephron
♦ American Journal of Hypertension
♦ Nephrology Dialysis and Transplantation
♦ Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
♦ Life Sciences
♦ Journal of Molecular Medicine
♦ Journal of Pathology
Member of Scientific Journal Boards
♦ Hypertension
♦ Journal of Hypertension
♦ Israel Journal of Hypertension
Ongoing Researches
♦ The genetic basis of hypertension
♦ The genetic basis of FSGS and proteinuria
♦ The genetic basis of type 2 diabetes mellitus
♦ The role of ACE2, a novel candidate gene, in hypertension
Scientific Publications
A total of 82 publications in medical journals in Israel and abroad have been published so far.
Chapters in Books
Yagil, Y., Ferne, M., Bergner Rabinowitz, S., and Ben Ishay, D. Antibody response to Gp.- A Streptococcus in Familial Nephritis. In: Parker, M.T. (ed) Pathogenic Streptococci: Proceedings of 7th International Symposium on Streptococci and Streptococcal Diseases. Oxford, 1978
Yagil, Y., Jamison, R.L. Papillary Necrosis. In: Principles and Practice of Nephrology. Editors: Jacobson, H.R., Striker, G.E. and Klahr, S., 1990
Ben-Ishay, D. and Yagil, Y. Experimental and genetic aspects of hypertension. The Sabra hypertension-prone and resistant strains. In: Handbook of Hypertension. Editors: Ganten & Reed, Elsevier Science Publishers, 1994
Yagil, Y and Yagil, C. The genetic basis of hypertension. In: The Human Genome Project in Israel. The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Jerusalem, 1998