Professor Hadassa Goldberg-Stern
Neurologist. Professor Hadassa Goldberg-Stern is a neurologist and one of Israel's leading specialists in the treatment of epilepsy in children and adolescents. She heads the Epilepsy Center.
Hadassa Goldberg-Stern graduated with distinction from the Faculty of Medicine of Tel Aviv University.
She completed her internship in neurology at Meir Medical Center in Israel and her residency at 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 for outstanding academic results.
She trained for a long time in EEG and epilepsy at the neurology department of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in the USA.
She has repeatedly completed advanced training 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 the doctor's scientific work has been genetic studies of families whose members suffer from epilepsy and attention deficit in benign childhood focal epilepsy, as well as the study of the effect of drugs used in children under 2 years old to stop seizures in refractory epilepsy.
Along with clinical and research work, the doctor is also engaged in academic activity. Hadassa Goldberg-Stern is an associate professor at the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Medicine.
Every year at international forums Dr. Goldberg-Stern presents the results of her research and regularly studies the experience of colleagues abroad.
Main areas of Dr. Goldberg-Stern's work:
- Treatment of epilepsy in children and adolescents
- Treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Epilepsy is a well-known neurological disease, but it most often occurs in children. It is often chronic, but it is not a lifelong sentence. Dr. Goldberg-Stern uses the most modern and effective treatment, which makes it possible to localize the disease and, with a proper lifestyle, even to get rid of it for good.