Professor Benjamin Bar-Oz
Neonatologist at a university medical center in Jerusalem. Associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics, neonatology course, at the Hebrew University and the Hadassah Medical School.
Professor Benjamin Bar-Oz treats small patients with bigger or smaller problems in the new neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). A significant share of his patients are babies born prematurely. In Israel alone about seven thousand premature babies are born every year, and there are also full-term babies born with very low birth weight (VLBW). Since 1995 special attention has been paid to this issue in Israel, with a dedicated program coordinated by the Women and Children's Health Research Unit of the Gertner Institute for Epidemiology.
Every case of congenital deviation from the statistical norm requires careful examination and, if necessary, treatment and rehabilitation. Each such case requires an especially sensitive yet highly professional attitude toward the newborn's parents.
Dr. Benjamin Bar-Oz has the experience and high qualification this work demands.
In 1987 Benjamin Bar-Oz received his medical diploma from the Hadassah Medical School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Until 1991 he completed a pediatrics residency in the pediatric department of Mount Scopus university hospital.
From 1991 to 1993 he studied there in a neonatology fellowship.
1998–1999: fellowship in the Motherisk program, clinical pharmacology and toxicology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada.
He has received several grants for research in neonatology.
Member of the Israeli Neonatology Association, the Israeli Association of Clinical Pediatrics and the European Society for Paediatric Research (ESPR).
Member of the Motherisk team, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada.
- Natriuretic hormone levels in newborns
- Long-term complications after vacuum extraction delivery
- Use of medications during pregnancy and lactation and their effect on the fetus and newborn