Professor Efrat Broide

Dr. Efrat Broide is a leading pediatric gastroenterologist in Israel. Today Professor Broide heads the pediatric gastroenterology department of Assaf Harofeh Medical Center.

Efrat Broide graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa. She did postgraduate studies in pediatrics at Tel Aviv University and trained in gastroenterology at medical centers in Israel. She completed advanced training in hepatology at King's College Hospital (London).

A practitioner with 20 years of experience and one of the most experienced diagnosticians, Efrat Broide, together with the department's specialists, deals not only with the diagnosis and treatment of liver and gastrointestinal pathologies but also with nutrition problems in teenagers, children and infants. Parents often come to the department when children have swallowed foreign objects. Dr. Broide provides consultations and treatment for underweight children or children with growth delay. The department's doctors, in close cooperation with specialists of other profiles, perform examinations to identify allergic reactions to foods.

Given the patient population, all diagnostic examinations in the department are performed using advanced endoscopic methods with minimal discomfort for the child.

In addition, Efrat Broide has an active private practice.

Professor Efrat Broide's main areas of work:

• chronic and acute diarrhea;
• abdominal pain;
• treatment of liver diseases;
• pancreatic diseases;
• celiac disease (gluten enteropathy);
• infectious pathologies of the digestive system;
• chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal organs;
• inflammatory bowel disease in children.

A person's health is laid down in early childhood and is based on a healthy digestive system. For this reason, the importance of timely and qualified help from Dr. Broide and the specialists of her department cannot be overestimated.