Dr. Odelia Gur

Dr. Odelia Gur is an outstanding Israeli oncohematologist, a specialist in treating malignant blood diseases, including by bone marrow transplantation, a physician of broad professional competence to whom colleagues turn for expert opinions in complex clinical cases and patients travel for help from many countries.

Dr. Odelia Gur received her higher medical education in Israel. After completing the mandatory internal medicine internship, she specialized in hematology and then oncohematology, first in Israel and later in the USA. During these years she paid much attention to studying the etiology and pathogenesis of blood cancers, searched for the most effective and safe methods of treating blood cancer as part of a scientific and practical research group, assisted in many bone marrow transplants, and, after obtaining the highest qualification as an oncohematologist, performed bone marrow transplants as the lead transplant specialist. After returning to Israel, Dr. Gur was invited to join the staff of the Sourasky (Ichilov) Medical Center, Israel's largest, where she currently heads the day hospital, which also includes the outpatient hematology clinic, the department for treating leukemias with the blood hypercoagulation unit, and the laboratory for stem cell apheresis.

Dr. Gur is a full member of several professional organizations in Israel and the USA, teaches a course on blood diseases to students of the Sackler Faculty at Tel Aviv University, and is active in scientific, practical and clinical work.

Dr. Odelia Gur diagnoses and treats various forms and types of blood cancer (hematologic malignancies), in particular:

• acute and chronic leukemias, both undifferentiated and differentiated;
• Hodgkin lymphoma and non-Hodgkin lymphomas: mantle cell lymphoma, Burkitt lymphoma, etc.;
• myelodysplastic syndrome, etc.

In her practice Dr. Gur uses modern protocols for treating malignant blood diseases and the latest medical achievements in oncohematology, and develops individual comprehensive treatment plans for her patients. As a professional in bone marrow transplantation, she collaborates actively with radiologists, chemotherapists and other specialists, ensuring the most complete and effective treatment of the patient.