Dr. Jana Landa is an expert in the area of pediatric rehabilitation and the Head of the Pediatric Rehabilitation Department, Sheba Medical Center, Israel. During the past two decades she has been developing innovative and comprehensive assessment and intervention models for children undergoing rehabilitation, and their families. She has led the development of computerized and non-computerized assessments for children after acquired head injuries, as well as initiated an integrative evaluation of long-term functioning among children after severe head injuries. She has developed a multi-team intervention model that includes physical therapy, a learning center and emotional therapy for the children and their parents. Furthermore, she has been the head of an interdisciplinary psychosomatic clinic at the department focusing on psycho-physiological mechanism underlying psychosomatic disorders in children.
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Dr. Jana Landa is an expert in the area of pediatric rehabilitation and the Head of the Pediatric Rehabilitation Department, Sheba Medical Center, Israel. During the past two decades she has been developing innovative and comprehensive assessment and intervention models for children undergoing rehabilitation, and their families. She has led the development of computerized and non-computerized assessments for children after acquired head injuries, as well as initiated an integrative evaluation of long-term functioning among children after severe head injuries. She has developed a multi-team intervention model that includes physical therapy, a learning center and emotional therapy for the children and their parents. Furthermore, she has been the head of an interdisciplinary psychosomatic clinic at the department focusing on psycho-physiological mechanism underlying psychosomatic disorders in children.
Education:
2008 ‒ 2011 Psychotherapy Studies: Adults, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel
2004 ‒ 2006 Psychotherapy studies: Children and Youth, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
1992 ‒ 1999 Residency, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R), Loewenstein Rehabilitation Hospital, Ra'anana, Israel
1987 ‒ 1989 Residency, Pediatric Medicine, The National Institute of Medicine, Chisinau, Moldova (USSR)
1981 ‒ 1987 MD, Summa cum laude, The National Institute of Medicine, Chisinau, Moldova (USSR)
Employment
2020 ‒ present Department Head, Department of Pediatric Rehabilitation, Edmond and Lily Safra Children’s Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
2012 ‒ present Head of the Pediatric Psychosomatic Clinic, Department of Pediatric Rehabilitation, Edmond and Lily Safra Children’s Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
2002 ‒ present Head of the Pediatric Brain Injury Follow‒Up Clinic, Department of Pediatric Rehabilitation, Edmond and Lily Safra Children’s Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
2008 ‒ 2020 Vice Director of Department, Department of Pediatric Rehabilitation, Edmond and Lily Safra Children’s Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
1999 ‒ 2008 Senior Physician, Department of Pediatric Rehabilitation, Edmond and Lily Safra Children’s Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
1989 ‒ 1990 Pediatrician, the Children Hospital N 1, Chisinau, Moldova (USSR)
Academic Appointments:
2008 – present Instructor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Membership in Professional Associations
Israeli Association of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Israeli Association of Psychosomatics
Publications:
Here is a link to the list of publications of Dr. Janna Landa in PubMed. PubMed is a database of scientific articles in the fields of medicine and life sciences.
