Professor Orit Reish

Professor Orit Reish, MD, is one of Israel's most sought-after geneticists, with the highest professional qualification and an undoubted talent as a researcher. These qualities allow Dr. Reish to make highly accurate predictions about congenital pathology and to help young couples reduce the likelihood of having children with hereditary diseases.

Orit Reish graduated from the Faculty of Health Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. She then studied pediatrics at Tel Aviv University, receiving a second degree at its Faculty of Medicine. She specialized in medical genetics at the University of Minnesota (USA). During her studies and special fellowships she studied in depth hereditary (chromosomal and genetic) diseases as well as diseases with a hereditary predisposition (multifactorial pathology), and devoted much time to scientific research in medical genetics. She defended her dissertation and received the degree of doctor of medicine.

Today Professor Orit Reish heads the department of genetic and hereditary diseases at the Institute of Medical Genetics of the Assaf Harofeh multidisciplinary clinical center. She has dozens of scientific publications in prestigious medical journals around the world, teaches medical genetics to medical students at Israeli universities, takes an active part in specialized conferences and scientific symposia worldwide, and is a member of international and Israeli genetic associations. Dr. Reish has repeatedly received grants from a special Israeli-American scientific foundation to conduct genetic research aimed at identifying genes that influence the onset and course of hereditary pathology. As an expert-class professional, she is included in the list of Israel's best specialists in her field.

The main areas of Dr. Orit Reish's work are:

• practical counseling and examination of couples to identify the risks of chromosomal and genetic pathology in their future children;
• detection of hereditary predisposition of offspring to cardiovascular, endocrine and oncological diseases in couples with a burdened history;
• development of measures for the prevention of hereditary diseases.

As a physician with a unique specialization that makes it possible to foresee congenital pathology in children and to predict the probability of its development, Orit Reish helps to reduce the risk of unfavorable heredity and to avoid the birth of offspring with obviously severe genetic disorders.