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The Department of Internal Medicine C at the Sheba Medical Center is a clinically active, academically oriented general medical department. Our largest patient population is the elderly who suffer from chronic maladies such as cardiovascular diseases, Cancer, and acute infectious diseases. We provide these patients with further diagnostic evaluation or medical treatment for acute exacerbation of their basic disease. Our other primary patient groups are children with acute infectious diseases and patients with unusual rheumatic or contagious diseases.
In addition to our general inpatient services, we have two specialties. First, we specialize in the treatment of tropical diseases imported to Israel by tourists from Africa or Southeast Asia. Secondly, we cooperate with the Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation and admit bone marrow transplanted patients with variable complications necessitating hospitalization.
We also have a laboratory engaged in the investigation of the preclinical; Pharmacotherapy of Cancer. Our laboratory's current focus is the development of novel drug combinations for the induction of apoptosis (i.e., active, suicide-like death) in resistant Breast Cancer cells. The goal of these studies is to improve our ability to eradicate cancer cells without the need for large amounts of Chemotherapy.
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Department at a Glance |
| Number of Patients per Year - 3500 |
| Number of Beds - 38 |
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Director - Prof. Yechezkel Sidi
Prof. Yechezkel Sidi is married with three children. He was born in Bulgaria in 1948 and immigrated to Israel in 1950. He attended elementary school and high school in Tel Aviv. He completed medical school at the Hebrew Univeristy in Jerusalem from 1965 to 1972. He served in the IDF as a medical officer from 1972 to 1975.
Prof. Sidi specialized in Internal Medicine at the Belinson Medical Center from 1975-1980. During 1980 he was a Visiting Scientist at the Hammersmith Postgraduate Medical School, London, England. From 1982-84 Prof. Sidi completed a Research Fellowship in the Hematology-Oncology Division at the University of Michigan, USA. Beverly S. Mitchell, M.D., and William N. Kelly, M.D. were his mentors. |
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Staff -
Dr. Shmuel Steinlauf, M.D., Specialist in Infectious Diseases
Prof. Eliezer Schwartz, M.D., DTMH, Director of Geographic Services
Prof. Michael Ehrenfeld, M.D., Specialist in Rheumatic Disease
Dr. Raphael Bitzur, M.D., Fellow in Atherosclerosis and Dyslipidemia
Dr. Eyal Melzer, M.D., Senior Physician and Specialist in Infectious Diseases |
| Address - The Charles Clore Hospitalization Tower, West Wing |
| E-mail - ysidi@post.tau.ac.il |
| Tel - 972-3-530-2430 | |
