Faculty & Speakers

Meet Our Faculty

Ami Appelbaum

Chief Scientist and Chairman, Israel Innovation Authority

Dr. Ami Appelbaum Chief Scientist and Chairman of the Board of Israel Innovation Authority Dr. Ami Appelbaum is the Chief… READ MORE

Assaf Barnea

Sanara Ventures, Israel

Mr. Assaf Barnea is a seasoned entrepreneur and venture professional, with extensive, multidisciplinary experience in building innovation platforms and leading… READ MORE

Michal Beeri

Sheba Medical Center, Israel

Prof. Michal Beeri is Director of the Joseph Sagol Neuroscience Center at Sheba and Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn… READ MORE

Hagai Bergman

Hebrew University and Hadassah Medical Center, Israel

Hagai Bergman completed his MD-PhD at the Technion, Haifa at 1984, have done two post-doctorate fellowships with Moshe Abeles at… READ MORE

Rafael Beyar

Rambam Health Care Campus, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

President, International Friends Associations, Rambam Health Care Campus Professor Emeritus, The Bruce and Ruth Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion Chairman… READ MORE

Natan Bornstein

Shaare Zedeck Medical Center, Israel

Affiliation: Professor of Neurology at the Tel-Aviv University, Sackler Faculty of Medicine. Chairman of the Israeli Stroke Society (ISS) (since… READ MORE

Aron S. Buchman

Rush University Medical Center, USA

Aron S. Buchman, MD Professor of Neurological Sciences Rush University Medical Center Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center Dr. Buchman’s research, funded… READ MORE

Jose E. Cohen

Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Centers, Israel

Professor of Neurosurgery at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel Prof. Cohen has served as the Director of Endovascular… READ MORE

Vincent Costalat

University Hospital Center of Montpellier, France

Prof. Vincent COSTALAT is the Head of the Department of Neuroradiology at the University Hospital Center of Montpellier and covers… READ MORE

Steven C. Cramer

University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Dr. Steven C. Cramer is a Professor of Neurology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also the… READ MORE

Tali Cukierman-Yaffe

Sheba Medical Center, Israel

Tali Cukierman-Yaffe is an endocrinologist and a clinical epidemiologist. She is a senior physician in the Endocrinology Institute, the head… READ MORE

Oved Daniel

President, Israeli Headache Association

Dr. Oved Daniel 2019- The President of the Israeli Headache Association. Dr. Oved Daniel is a Clinical Neurologist and Headache… READ MORE

Iftach Dolev

QuantalX NeuroScience, Israel

Dr. Iftach Dolev is a Neuroscientist and an entrepreneur. He completed his PhD and Post-Doctoral fellowship at the Tel-Aviv University in the… READ MORE

Oren Dror

CVAID Medical, Israel

Co-Founder, CEO and Investor A business development specialist with over 20 years of extensive global experience in healthcare including fundraising,… READ MORE

Ruth Gabizon

Hadassah University, Israel

After getting my PhD from the Hebrew University Medical School I went to Dr. Prusiner’s lab in UCSF for my… READ MORE

Illana Gozes

Tel Aviv University, Israel

Professor Emerita Illana Gozes, BSc, Tel Aviv University, Direct PhD, Weizmann Institute of Science (Best PhD Student Landau Prize), Israel,… READ MORE

Shai Granot

Effectivate, Israel

CEO & Co-founder of Effectivate, a self-taught entrepreneur. Shai has proven management and leadership abilities and in the past has… READ MORE

Yael Hanein

Tel Aviv University, Israel

Yael Hanein is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Tel Aviv University, VP of scientific affairs at Nano Retina. and… READ MORE

Sagi Harnof

Rabin Medical Center, Israel

Jeff Hausdorff

Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel

Full Professor, Sackler Faculty of Medicine & Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University Full Professor, Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center… READ MORE

Talma Hendler

Tel Aviv University, Israel

Full Professor, School of Psychological Science, Departments of Physiology and Pharmacology and Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Sagol School Neuroscience, Tel… READ MORE

Gal Ifergane

Soroka Medical Center, Ben Gurion University, Israel

Prof. Gal Ifergane is a clinical Neurologist, active researcher, health-care executive, and consultant to pharma and biomed startup companies. He… READ MORE

Dimitrios Karussis

Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel

Prof. Dimitrios Karussis, MD, PhD Full Professor of Neurology at Hebrew University of Jerusalem Prof. Dimitrios Karussis, was born in… READ MORE

Arieh Kuritzky

Rabin Medical Center, Israel

Ronen Leker

Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel

Prof. Ronen R. Leker is the director of the stroke unit at Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem. Graduated from… READ MORE

David S. Liebeskind

University of California, Los Angeles, USA

As Professor of Neurology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) I am Director of the UCLA Stroke Center.… READ MORE

Walter Maetzler

University Hospital Kiel, Germany

Prof. Maetzler is full professor for neurogeriatrics and deputy director of the neurology department of the University Hospital in Kiel,… READ MORE

Ron Milo

Barzilai Medical Center, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Ron Milo is the chairman of the Department of Neurology and director of the Multiple Sclerosis Center at the Barzilai… READ MORE

Joan Montaner

Institute of Biomedicine of Seville, Spain

Joan Montaner completed his studies in Medicine and Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine in Cadiz, Spain. He underwent specialty… READ MORE

Massimiliano Oliveri

Restorative Neurotechnologies, Italy

Massimiliano Oliveri is a neurologist and full Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Physiological Psychology at the University of Palermo. During… READ MORE

David Perlmutter

Weebit nano, Teramount, prior Vice President and Chief Product officer of Intel Corporation, Israel

David (Dadi) Perlmutter is a Technology and Social entrepreneur and investor, focusing on investment in growing technology companies in Israel… READ MORE

Laurent Pierot

University Hospital Reims, France

Laurent Pierot is Professor of Radiology in the faculty of Medicine of Reims (France) and Head of the department of… READ MORE

Alan Rapoport

The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, USA

Dr. Alan M. Rapoport is a Clinical Professor of Neurology at The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los… READ MORE

Keren Regev

Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel

Dr. Keren Regev is a neurologist who specializes in Neuroimmunology, currently, she is the director of the Multiple Sclerosis Service… READ MORE

Jesús R. Requena

University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Jesús R. Requena, Ph.D., leads the Prionlab group at the CIMUS Biomedical Research Institute of the University of Santiago de… READ MORE

Jeffrey L. Saver

Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, USA

Michal Schwartz

Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Michal Schwartz, Professor of Neuroimmunology Schwartz is a Professor of Neuroimmunology, at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. She… READ MORE

Izhar Shay

Minister of Science and Technology, Israel

Idit Tamir

Rabin Medical Center, Israel

Dr. Idit Tamir – Senior Physician and Director of the Functional Neurosurgery Service in the Department of Neurosurgery at Beilinson… READ MORE

David Tanne

Rambam Health Care Campus, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

Prof. David Tanne serves as the President of the Israel Neurological Association. He is a Professor of Neurology at the… READ MORE

David Yarnitsky

Rambam Health Care Campus, The Technion Institute of Technology, Israel

I am a clinician-researcher neurologist, focused on pain research. My main research interest is pain modulation in humans, using psychophysical… READ MORE

Imad Younis

Alpha Omega, Israel

Imad Younis was born (1961) and raised in Nazareth, Israel. He holds a B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the… READ MORE