Prof. Dina Ben Yehuda

Prof. Dina Ben Yehuda

Professor Ben Yehuda, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the Hebrew University, Director of the Department of Hematology at Hadassah Hospital, and winner of the Chief of Staff’s Award for her work in the Yom Kippur War, serves as a model for medicine and health services in Israel. Professor Dina Ben Yehuda is married to Professor Aryeh Ben Yehuda, Director of the Internal Medicine Division at Hadassah, and mother of three daughters. Professor Ben Yehuda was born in Haifa in 1953. During the Yom Kippur War, she gathered information about the fate of the wounded, killed and missing of the 14th Brigade of the Armored Corps, where she served as an IDF officer. These sensitive activities, which she carried out with extraordinary humanity, formed the infrastructure for the establishment of the IDF casualty unit. For this activity, she received the Chief of Staff Award. Since 1981, Professor Ben Yehuda has been working as a physician in the Department of Hematology at Hadassah. Over the years, she established the research laboratory for the diagnosis of malignant hematological diseases within the department. Since 2002 she has been managing the Department of Hematology in Ein Kerem, and since 2006 she manages the Hematology Division at Hadassah, which includes the Hematology Unit on Mount Scopus, the Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation, the Blood Bank and the Center for Neuro-Oncology. In 2017, she was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the Hebrew University.

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