Professor Aviva Fattal-Valevski

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

Aviva Fattal graduated with honors from Tel Aviv University. She then specialized in pediatrics in Israel and worked as a resident at the Sourasky Medical Center (Ichilov Hospital). Having chosen one of the most complex areas of pediatrics as her main specialty, 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 also studied at the Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration at Tel Aviv University and became a certified manager and organizer of healthcare institutions.

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

In addition to active clinical practice, Professor Fattal conducts intensive research aimed at studying the nature of childhood nervous diseases and finding ways to treat and prevent them. She created a research group studying the relationship between pediatric neurological pathology and vitamin B1 deficiency in the diet, opening ways to restrain the progression of many polyneuropathies through additional thiamine supplementation to restore normal metabolism in nervous system tissues.

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

Professor Aviva Fattal is competent in diagnosing and treating childhood diseases of the nervous system, in particular:

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

In every 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 thorough examination. This approach makes it possible to achieve the best possible results.