Background
Merin, Saul Cvi was born on August 25, 1933 in Bedzin, Poland. Arrived in Israel, 1949. Son of Isaac and Gitl (Grun) Merin.
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Merin, Saul Cvi was born on August 25, 1933 in Bedzin, Poland. Arrived in Israel, 1949. Son of Isaac and Gitl (Grun) Merin.
He studied at the Medical School of Hebrew University in Jerusalem from 1953-1960.
His book Inherited Eye Diseases is now in its second edition As Professor of Ophthalmology at Israel"s Hadassah Hospital, Merin worked at the Street John Eye Hospital Group"s East Jerusalem hospital, where he worked with ophthalmologists working in the area of the Palestinian National Authority. While based primarily in Israel, worked for 25 years with The University of Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary, where was a visiting professor
Merin escaped deportation by train to Auschwitz on August 3, 1943, and was hidden by Aniela (Zawadzka) Szwajce in Będzin, a town in southwest Poland, until arrival of the Soviet army in January 1945.
He emigrated to Israel in 1949. Following conscription into Army Service in the Israel Defense Forces from 1961-1963, he trained in ophthalmology at Hadassah Medical Center under Professor I.C. Michaelson from 1963-1969, and was made a specialist in ophthalmology in 1969.
He worked in Malawi from 1965-1967, and made several professional tours in Africa. He was awarded fellowships and had additional training at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada in pediatric ophthalmology, and at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Illinois, United States of America for further medical study of the retina.
He was Professor of Ophthalmology at Hebrew University from 1979 until his death.
He was Chairman of the Israel Ophthalmological Society from 1976-1982, Chairman of the Israel Society for Vision and Eye Research from 1985-1995, Chairman of the Israel Board of Ophthalmology, from 1989-1995, and Chairman of the Unit of Ophthalmology, at Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus from 1979-1998. Professor Merin died in August 2012.
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Chairman Israel Board of Ophthalmology, Israel, since 1989. Lieutenant colonel Medical Corps Israel Defense Forces. Member Israel Ophthalmological Society (president 1976-1982), Israel Society for Eye and Vision Research (president 1985-1990), American Academy Ophthalmology.
Married Rachel Siton, May 28, 1958. Children: Isaac, David Ofer, Guy.