Professor Aviva Fattal-Valevski

Professor Aviva Fattal-Valevski is a well-known pediatric neurologist and a specialist in treating the widest range of neurometabolic, neurodermatological, hereditary and genetically determined diseases in children, as well as an expert in the use of botulinum toxin in treating cerebral palsy in children. Aviva Fattal is an extra-class professional, an experienced clinician and a brilliant diagnostician who is in extremely high demand both in Israel and far beyond.

Aviva Fattal graduated with distinction from Tel Aviv University. She then specialized in pediatrics in Israel and worked as a trainee at Sourasky Medical Center (Ichilov Hospital). Choosing as her main specialty one of the most complex fields of pediatrics, she studied neurometabolic and genetic disorders in children at Langone Medical Center (New York, USA). Attaching great importance to the organization of care for children and adolescents, Aviva Fattal studied at the Recanati Business School of Tel Aviv University and received the status of manager and organizer of healthcare institutions.

Today Professor Aviva Fattal is one of Israel's best-known specialists in pediatric neurology and neuropathology, a professional with 30 years of experience, an extra-class specialist in treating complex neurometabolic disorders in children and adolescents, and an experienced clinician and excellent diagnostician. For more than ten years she worked as a pediatric neurologist at Sourasky Medical Center, and for the past fifteen years she has successfully headed the pediatric neurology department of the multidisciplinary Dana-Dwek clinic at the same medical center.

Besides active clinical practice, Professor Fattal conducts intensive research on the nature of childhood nervous diseases and on ways of treating and preventing them. She created a research group to study the relationship between pediatric neurological pathology and vitamin B1 deficiency in the diet, opening ways to slow the progression of many polyneuropathies with thiamine supplements that restore normal metabolism in nervous tissue.

Professor Fattal is the author of more than fifty scientific papers on pediatric neurology, belongs to professional societies in Israel, Europe and the USA and to the central committee of the Israeli Association of Pediatric Neurology, and teaches neurology to students at Tel Aviv University.

Professor Aviva Fattal's expertise covers the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the nervous system in children, in particular:

• neurofibromatosis types 1 and 2;
• epilepsy;
• cerebral palsy, including treatment with botulinum toxin;
• muscle tone disorders (myasthenia, amyotrophy, muscle spasticity);
• hereditary neurometabolic diseases: leukodystrophy, phenylketonuria and others.

In each clinical case Professor Fattal focuses on establishing the exact causes of the disease and draws up an individual treatment program for each patient based on the results of a meticulous examination. This approach makes it possible to achieve the best possible results.