Yona Amitai

Professor Yona Amitai (MD, MPH), graduate (with honors) of the Sackler Medical School, Israel, Board Certified in Pediatrics, Clinical Pharmacology and Public Health (in Israel) and in Medical Toxicology (USA), after completion of a Fellowship in Clinical Toxicology at the Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard, and the Massachusetts Poison Information System (1984-6). Associate Professor in Pediatrics (Hadassah – Hebrew University, Jerusalem) and Professor in Health System Management (Bar Ilan University). Past President of the Israeli Society of Toxicology, Past President of the Israeli Association of Ambulatory Pediatrics and past Chair of the Scientific Committee of the European Confederation of Primary Care Pediatricians (ECPCP). Served as the Director of the Department of Maternal, Children and Adolescents Health in the Ministry of Health in Israel. He has is a member in the World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Group for developing guidelines for the prevention of lead poisoning and served as a consultant for WHO in the management of severe lead poisoning in children in Kosovo. He has published over 150 scientific papers in the international medical literature, and tutored 40 students for Master Thesis and MD thesis.

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