Professor Efrat Broide

Dr. Efrat Broide is a leading pediatric gastroenterologist in Israel. Today Professor Broide heads the pediatric gastroenterology department at 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 specialists of the department, deals not only with the diagnosis and treatment of pathologies of the liver and gastrointestinal tract but also with nutritional problems in adolescents, children and infants. Parents who face the problem of children swallowing foreign objects very often come to the department. Dr. Broide consults and treats children who are underweight or have growth delay. The doctors of the department, in close cooperation with specialists of other profiles, carry out tests to identify allergic reactions to food products.

Given the patient population, all diagnostic examinations in the department are carried out 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;
• diseases of the pancreas;
• celiac disease (gluten enteropathy);
• infectious pathologies of the digestive system;
• chronic inflammation of the digestive tract organs;
• inflammatory bowel disease in children.

A person's health is laid down in early childhood and rests 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.