David D. Barzilai

Background

Barzilai, David D. was born on November 12, 1924 in Haifa, Israel. Son of Dov and Yaffa (Yudovsky) Barzilai.

Education

Doctor of Medicine, Hebrew U., Jerusalem, 1952.

Career

Intern, Hebrew U., 1952-1953; senior lecturer in internal medicine, Hebrew U., 1964-1969; resident in internal medicine, Rambam Government Hospital, Haifa, Israel, 1953-1957; chief resident in internal medicine, director Endocrine Clinic, Rambam Government Hospital, Haifa, Israel, 1957; acting chief internal medicine, Rambam Government Hospital, Haifa, Israel, 1962-1964; director internal medicine endocrinology, Rambam Government Hospital, Haifa, Israel, 1964; acting chief internal medicine, Government Hospital, Tiberias, Israel, 1960; senior lecturer in human biology, The Israel Institute Technology, 1960; research fellow, Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, 1961-1962; professor medicine and endocrinology, Technion Faculty of Medicine, 1972-1993; Joel Hamburger professor of medicine in clinical thyroidology, Technion Faculty of Medicine, 1980; associate dean, Technion Faculty of Medicine, 1976; dean, Technion Faculty of Medicine, 1978-1983; director research lab in endocrinology and aging, Technion Faculty of Medicine, since 1990; professor emeritus, Technion Faculty of Medicine, since 1993. Board directors biomedical Institute of Institute Technology. Visiting professor Harvard University, Boston, 1974, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, 1974, Singapore Medical School, 1976, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1984-1985, U. Göteborg, Sweden, 1985, U. Stellenbosch, South Africa, 1985, University of Illinois, Chicago, 1992.

Visiting science National Institutes of Health, Washington, 1989-1990. Chairman medicine and endocrinology Rebecca Ziv Medical Center, Safed, 1990-1993. Appointed president Magen David Adom Israel, 1993.

Consultant internal medicine service Tira Psychiatric Center.

Achievements

• David D. Barzilai has been listed as a noteworthy medical educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member American Thyroid Association, American Endocrine Society, Royal Society Medicine (affiliate), Israel Medical Association (board directors), Israel Endocrine Society, Israel Society Medicine, Israel Society Diabetes, Israel Society Fertility and Sterility, European Diabetes Society, European Society Epidemiology Diabetes, Royal Society Internal Medicine, Israel Society Liver Diseases.

Connections

Married Drora Davidovits, March 30, 1955. Children: Nir, Osnat, Neta.

Father:

Dov Barzilai

Mother:

Yaffa (Yudovsky) Barzilai

Spouse:

Drora Davidovits

child:

Nir Barzilai

child:

Neta Barzilai

child:

Osnat Barzilai