Professor Hadassa Goldberg-Stern
Pediatric neurologist. Professor Hadassa Goldberg-Stern is a neurologist and one of Israel's leading specialists in treating epilepsy in children and adolescents. She heads the Epilepsy Center.
Hadassa Goldberg-Stern graduated with honors from the Faculty of Medicine of Tel Aviv University.
She completed her internship in neurology at Meir Medical Center in Israel and her residency in the Neurology Department of Beilinson Medical Center in Israel.
In her senior university years she repeatedly received awards established by the board of trustees for gifted students in recognition of her high academic performance.
She trained for a long time in EEG and epilepsy in the Neurology Department of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in the USA.
She has repeatedly completed continuing education courses at Israel's largest centers.
Dr. Goldberg-Stern is a member of the Israeli Neurological Association, the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) and the American Epilepsy Society.
For many years the doctor has been successfully engaged in research. The relevance of her research topics on epilepsy in children and young people is confirmed by repeated grants from the Israeli Ministry of Health and the US National Institutes of Health. The results of this research are actively used in the practice of neurologists not only in Israel. Recently the main focus of her scientific work has been genetic research on families whose members suffer from epilepsy and attention deficit disorder in benign childhood focal epilepsy, as well as the study of the action of drugs used in children under 2 years of age to control seizures in refractory epilepsy.
Along with her clinical and research work, the doctor is also engaged in academic activity. Hadassa Goldberg-Stern is an associate professor at the Faculty of Medicine of Tel Aviv University.
Every year Dr. Goldberg-Stern presents the results of her research at international forums and regularly studies the experience of foreign neurologist colleagues.
Dr. Goldberg-Stern's main areas of work:
- Treatment of epilepsy in children and adolescents
- Treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Epilepsy is a well-known neurological disease, but it occurs most often in children. The disease is often chronic but is not a life sentence. Dr. Goldberg-Stern uses the most modern and effective treatment, which makes it possible to contain the disease and, with the right lifestyle, even to get rid of it for good.