The Department of Internal Medicine B, in addition to providing inpatient services to the general patient population, houses the Research Center for Autoimmune Diseases and treats patients with autoimmune conditions, especially Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE).
Research Center for Autoimmune Diseases
Autoimmune diseases occur when the body tissues are attacked by the body's own immune system. These diseases primarily affect young people (an average age of 30 years), especially women of childbearing age. The Research Center for Autoimmune Diseases provides outpatient clinic services and maintains a world-class research institute and laboratory. The clinic specializes in the management of SLE and the Anti-Phospholipid Antibody Syndrome. The research center works to find the risk factors associated with autoimmune diseases and to establish better therapies for those afflicted with these conditions.
Our unique complex of a research laboratory working tightly with the Laboratory for Autoantibody Detection, the Clinical Department of Medicine, and the Lupus Clinic and Outpatient Clinic for Autoimmunity allows our physicians to spend time conducting research and giving the clinician an unobstructed route from the latest laboratory findings to the patient's bedside.
Research Interests
Our main research interest is an analysis of the autoantibodies in patients with SLE and other autoimmune diseases and generating new experimental models in mice. Our pioneering experience with mice has resulted in our laboratory being the first to report on mice with experimental models of autoimmune diseases such as the Antiphospholipid Syndrome (APS).
Due to the relatedness of Autoimmunity and Cancer, our laboratory has a special research interest in Cancer and Autoimmunity.
| Department at a Glance |
| Number of Patients per Year - 3500 |
| Number of Beds - 38 |
| Special Centers - Research Center for Autoimmune Diseases |
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Director - Prof. Yehuda Shoenfeld, M.D., FRCP
Prof. Yehuda Shoenfeld has been the head of the Department of Medicine since 1984 (age 36), and he has published more than 1000 papers in journals such as New Eng J Med, Lancet, Proc Nat Acad Scie, J Clin Invest, J Immunol, Blood, J Exp Med, Circulation, Cancer and others. He has authored and edited 10 books, some of which became cornerstones in science and clinical practice, such as "The Mosaic of Autoimmunity" and the textbook "Autoantibodies," both of which were published by Elsevier and sold by the thousands. He is on the editorial board of 28 journals in the field of Rheumatology, and Autoimmunity and is the founder and the editor of the IMAJ (Israel Medical Association Journal), the representative journal of science and medicine in the English language in Israel. He has written more than one hundred chapters in books in his area of expertise.
(to Prof. Yehuda Shoenfeld WebSite) |
| Address - The Padeh Center for rehabilitation of the adult |
| E-mail - shoenfel@post.tau.ac.il |
| Tel - 972-3-530-2652 | |
