Professor Liora Harel

In 26 years of medical practice Liora Harel has accumulated vast experience in treating all rheumatic diseases known today in the pediatric age group, which allows her to achieve high results in the most complex clinical cases.

Professor Liora Harel studied medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of the Technion in Haifa, Israel's oldest technical university. After receiving an excellent education in general and pediatric medicine, she chose pediatric rheumatology as her specialty, and after graduating trained as a pediatric rheumatologist in the pediatric department of the Yitzhak Rabin clinic. Having mastered the basics of treating rheumatic diseases in children, Professor Harel went to the USA to improve her qualifications in rheumatology, and for two years studied rheumatic diseases at the university clinic in Chicago. During those years Liora Harel was actively engaged in both research and clinical practice, gaining invaluable experience treating pediatric rheumatic diseases among distinguished colleagues and world-renowned professors of medicine. After returning to Israel, Liora Harel confirmed her high qualification as a rheumatologist and received the title of professor of medicine.

Today Professor Liora Harel is an authoritative pediatrician, a recognized authority in rheumatology, an expert of international standing and a specialist with an exceptionally developed professional instinct, thanks to which she resolves any clinical task with the best possible outcome. Thousands of children have been saved, their health and quality of life preserved, by Professor Harel, and more than 2,000 young patients have been freed from severe arthritis for good thanks to her help.

With an extensive clinical practice, Professor Harel continues to do research and is in constant search of new, even more effective ways to fight pediatric rheumatic diseases and systemic vasculitis. The talented rheumatologist has 5 proprietary methods that speed up recovery and increase the effectiveness of treating rheumatic diseases. Liora Harel is an adjunct professor at Stanford University in California (USA), lectures to medical students, conducts research on innovation in the treatment of rheumatic diseases, and publishes in prestigious international journals as the author of interesting proposals that open new prospects in the fight against childhood arthritis and vasculitis.

Professor Liora Harel's professional interests include the diagnosis and treatment of:

• chronic juvenile arthritis (Still's disease);
• SLE (systemic lupus erythematosus);
• juvenile dermatomyositis;
• Adamantiades-Behçet, Reiter and Sjögren syndromes;
• Kawasaki disease, Horton's disease and Buerger's disease;
• Wegener's granulomatosis and others.

Professor Liora Harel actively uses in clinical practice the most modern treatment protocols and her own methods, which help seriously ill patients recover.