Professor Aaron Hanukoglu
Pediatric endocrinologist. An outstanding pediatric endocrinologist, clinician and researcher. Head of the Department of Pediatric Endocrinology at Wolfson Medical Center. Senior lecturer at the Department of Pediatrics, Wolfson Hospital, Tel Aviv University School of Medicine, Israel.
Aaron Hanukoglu was born in 1943 in Istanbul, Turkey.
Since 1970 he has lived and worked in Israel. In 1974-1976 he served in the army and is currently a captain in the reserves of the Israel Defense Forces.
He holds licenses in pediatrics, endocrinology and pediatric endocrinology from the Israeli Ministry of Health and the University of Maryland, USA.
He has repeatedly received awards from the Israel Endocrine Society for research and academic activity. In 2018 he received the Yakir HaAguda award of the Israeli Society for Pediatric Endocrinology.
In 1967 Aaron Hanukoglu graduated from Istanbul University and received his M.D. Until 1969 he trained in pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
From 1970 to 1974: residency in pediatrics at Zahalon State Hospital, an affiliate of the Tel Aviv University School of Medicine, Jaffa, Israel.
In 1973-1974 he specialized in chemistry and endocrinology at the Institute of Pathological Chemistry, Tel HaShomer Hospital, and the Institute of Pediatric Endocrinology, Beilinson Hospital, Israel.
In 1978-1979: master's degree in pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University.
Academic and research activity
Dr. Aaron Hanukoglu began his long and continuous teaching career in 1972 at the Department of Pediatrics of the Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University.
For two years he worked as a staff member and lecturer in the pediatric endocrinology department of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA.
In 1994 he was recognized as an "Outstanding Teacher" of Tel Aviv University, Sackler Faculty of Medicine.
In 1999, as a visiting professor, he trained physicians in the Department of Pediatric Endocrinology at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada.
In 2005-2008 he headed the examination committee of the National Committee for Pediatric Endocrinology in Israel.
Research grants
1990-1992: Israeli Ministry of Health, "Adrenal function in children with bronchiolitis".
1991-1993: Godfrey Foundation grant for research on childhood diseases. Topic: "Molecular genetics of pseudohypoaldosteronism".
1992-1994: Israeli Ministry of Health. Topic: "Pseudohypoaldosteronism: identification of genetic defects in the mineralocorticoid receptor and a clinical study with carbenoxolone".
1995-1997: British-Israeli Science and Technology Research Fund. Topic: "Molecular genetic analysis of pseudohypoaldosteronism".
2000-2002: Israeli Ministry of Health. Topic: "Characterization of the molecular basis of salt-wasting syndrome (pseudohypoaldosteronism) resulting from aldosterone unresponsiveness".
2008-2011: Israeli Ministry of Health. Topic: "Epithelial sodium channels (ENaC): structure-function relationships and the effect of mutations causing pseudohypoaldosteronism on channel function".
2012-2016: US-Israel Binational Science Foundation. Subject: structure-function and biogenesis of epithelial sodium channels (ENaC), responsible for regulating blood volume and blood pressure.
Dr. Aaron Hanukoglu is the author and co-author of 92 scientific publications in endocrinology.
Treatment of:
- type I and type II diabetes mellitus;
- hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism, autoimmune thyroiditis, endemic and nodular goiter and other thyroid diseases;
- obesity, childhood metabolic syndrome and other metabolic disorders in children and adolescents;
- hormonal diseases related to the sexual sphere;
- other endocrine pathology.