Professor Liora Harel

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

Professor Liora Harel studied medicine at the Technion in Haifa, Israel's oldest university. After a brilliant education in general and pediatric medicine she chose pediatric rheumatology as her specialty, so after graduating she trained as a pediatric rheumatologist in the pediatric department of Rabin Medical Center. Having mastered the basics of treating rheumatic diseases in children, she went to the USA to improve her qualifications in rheumatology and for two years studied rheumatic diseases at a university clinic in Chicago. In those years she was actively engaged in both research and clinical practice, gaining invaluable experience in treating pediatric rheumatic diseases among distinguished colleagues and world-famous professors of medicine. Returning to Israel, she 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 international-class expert and a specialist with an exceptionally developed professional intuition, thanks to which she solves any clinical task with the best possible result. She has thousands of saved children to her credit, whose health and high quality of life she has preserved, and more than 2,000 small patients have been permanently freed of severe arthritis thanks to her help.

With an extensive clinical practice, Professor Harel continues her research and is in constant search of new and even more effective ways of fighting pediatric rheumatic diseases and systemic vasculitis. The talented rheumatologist has five 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 innovations in the treatment of rheumatic diseases, and publishes in prestigious international journals proposals that open new prospects in the fight against childhood arthritis and vasculitis.

The areas of Professor Liora Harel's professional interest 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 Harel actively uses the most modern treatment protocols and her own methods in clinical practice, which help seriously ill patients to recover.