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Michael Kaplan
Department of Neonatology
Shaare Zedek Medical Center,
Jerusalem.
Arthur Eidelman: Life Review
• Early period: New York
• Aliyah
• Contribution to neonatology
– Shaare Zedek Medical Center
• Contribution to neonatology
– national
• Contribution to pediatrics
– national front
• Personal reflections
Early Period: New York
• Born and grew up in New York
• BA Yeshiva College, Yeshiva University
• MD Albert Einstein College of Medicine
• Yeshiva University, New York
• Pediatrics and Chief Residency, Yale-New Haven
Hospital
• Neonatology Fellowship Yale University School of
Medicine (Dr Louis Gluck)
• Boards in Pediatrics and Neonatal and Perinatal
Medicine
Hebrew Institute of Boro Park
Brooklyn New York 1951
Then…
Arleen
Pilzer
and
Arthur
Eidelman
1960
…and now..Eidelman Family 2009
Employment Prior to Aliyah
•
Contribution to Neonatology:
Shaare Zedek Medical Center
• Did not let trials and tribulations of Aliya hinder
him.
•
• Excellent clinician
• Superb teacher
• Wide body of medical and general
knowledge
• Continuous updating of knowledge
• Combined clinical and administrative
duties
• Performed and encouraged clinical
research
2 Major Problems at Shaare Zedek
Unique population of Shaare Zedek
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