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APF Announces New Fellows for 2022-2023
APF is pleased to announce that we will be sponsoring 10 new fellows to come to North America and further their medical training in 2022-2023. APF Fellowships were established in 1951 to help train Israeli physicians in specialty care. The program continues today, with the awarding of supplemental fellowship grants […]
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2023 Emergency & Disaster Course Dates Announced
APF is pleased to announce the 2023 Emergency & Disaster Preparedness Course in Israel will be held from November 11-16, 2023. Created in conjunction with Israel’s Ministry of Health and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Medical Corps, this one-of-a-kind program offers physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals firsthand training from […]
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Disaster Management Online Course
The healthcare community faces serious new challenges in the emergency and disaster arena. This online program offers physicians, nurses, first responders and other healthcare professionals training from North American and Israel’s foremost experts. CME’s available! This two-day virtual course will cover the following topics: Emergency Medical Services Virtual Urgent Care […]
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APF Welcomes New Board Member
In 2020, we welcomed Dr. Gary Mann to our Board of Trustees. Gary M. Mann, M.D. A graduate of the University of Louisville School of Medicine, Gary completed his surgical training at the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine Affiliated Hospitals. He also trained in Emergency Medicine, which he has […]
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APF 70th Year Gala
Each year, the generous support of our members and Gala attendees directly funds APF’s critical programs in Israel, including our Fellowship and Medical Volunteer Programs. We invite you to join us on Sunday, November 8th at 2pm EST, as we virtually celebrate APF’s 70th Anniversary! Hear first-hand from our esteemed […]
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APF Fellows in Action: Dr. Galit Livnat-Levanon
Galit Livnat-Levanon is part of a team fighting cystic fibrosis one cell at a time. Landes, a 2018-2019 APF Fellow at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, is partway through a clinical and research fellowship in interventional cardiology. “This particular subspecialty has both sides: innovation and technology on the one side […]
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APF Fellows in Action: Dr. Yaron Barac
With each transplant surgery Dr. Yaron Barac is born again. “Seeing the heart start to beat or the lungs inflate and turn pink after transplant is like seeing the creation of the world every time … from scratch. It’s like the rise of the sun over the darkness of space. […]
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APF Fellows in Action: Dr. Uri Landes
Dr. Uri Landes flew 6,671 miles to learn how to replace a heart valve with one that, before opening, is about .13 inches — or the diameter of an infant’s pinkie. Landes, a 2018-2019 APF Fellow at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, is partway through a clinical and research fellowship […]
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APF Fellows in Action: Dr. Amir Aviram
Mum’s the word – and baby too, for Dr. Amir Aviram, an APF 2017-2018 Clinical Fellow in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. “Maternal-fetal medicine (MFM) is just a wonderful area. There are the intellectual challenges and the good you do. …the fact that you are part […]
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