
The Davidoff Cancer Center at Israel’s Rabin Medical Center benefits from the support of the Davidoff Foundation’s international board and hosts a bi-annual international conference which includes top doctors and researchers from Dana Farber Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and other premier cancer centers from the USA and Europe.
In particular, the Davidoff Center has a strong relationship with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, which has hosted several Rabin Medical Exchange Fellows in recent years.
I spent a month doing observership and training under the guidance of Dr. Lawrence Vannuzzi at Vitreous Retina Macula Consultants of New York (VRMNY) clinic. VRMNY is considered one of the top international ophthalmological retinal imaging centers and it houses the most respected physicians and researchers in the sub-field of retina and imaging.
My father, Rabbi Walter H. Plaut, died from
colon cancer in 1964. He was forty-four.
I was six. Three years later, my mother,
Hadassah Yanich Plaut, uprooted our
family from Great Neck, Long Island to
Jerusalem, Israel to start a new life.
Yoav Rosenthal, a fifth year resident in orthopedic surgery with a focus on shoulder and elbow surgery, recently returned to Israel having spent two weeks at the Desert Orthopedic Center (DOC) in Las Vegas, NV as part of his Rabin Medical Exchange Fellowship.