Global Health Center

Through the Cincinnati Children’s Israel Exchange Program, competitive grants are available for outstanding Israeli clinical and research fellows and visiting physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals. This support may include take-home grants to establish clinical programs in Israel, housing assistance during your time in Cincinnati and funding of travel expenses for short-term observers.

More than 30 Israeli fellows have returned to Israel following training at Cincinnati Children’s, and have demonstrated continued achievements and leadership roles.

We train more than 200 clinical fellows from all over the world each year in pediatric subspecialty areas ranging from allergy to urology. Clinical fellowships in pediatric specialties include:

• Clinical observerships offer physicians, nurses, hospital administrators and other healthcare professionals the opportunity to spend one to four weeks observing divisions at Cincinnati Children’s, learning from top experts in our subspecialty departments. Observers are able to join family-centered rounds, attend departmental briefings and work closely with several faculty in each division.
• In collaboration with the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, we offer an online master’s degree in medical education for physicians.
• We offer a wide range of postdoctoral research fellowships.
• Within our more than 1 million square feet of research space, scientists conduct basic, translational, clinical and health services research.
• We encourage cross-disciplinary collaboration among researchers in all disciplines of medical sciences.
• The proximity of researchers to clinicians and to a large, well-characterized patient population provides a synergistic environment for research that advances care at the bedside.
• Our Procter Scholar Program, a post-fellowship training program, prepares highly skilled MD or PhD / MD candidates for biomedical or clinical investigative careers in pediatrics.

Current Fellows

• Rola Farah – Tel Aviv University
• Gilad Hamandi – Hadassah
• Roni Geffen – Rambam Medical Center
• Mical Feldon – Tel Aviv University
• Nurit Azouz – Tel Aviv University
• Tzipi Horwitz Krauss – University of Haifa
• Dror Kraus – Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel
• Shelley Negari – Hadassah Medical Center
• Yael Haberman – Sheba Medical Center
• Lana Itzkovich – Tel Aviv University

Recent Fellows 

• Inbal Samuk – Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel
• Menachem Bitan – Sourasky Medical Center
• Itzchak Kehat – Technion Israel Institute of Technology
• Betzelel Sivan – Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel
• Yaron Armon – Hadassah Medical Center

Past Fellows 

Read news articles about the relationship between Cincinnati Children’s and Israel:

• A Tale of Two Recruits: Two Tel Aviv University researchers, one of whom completed postdoctoral studies at Cincinnati Children’s, say positive competition leads to better results.
• Four Israeli Nurses Receive Intensive Training Thanks to the 2013 Solomon Hirsh Nurses Education Fund (Scroll down to read the article.)
• Hadassah Day in Cincinnati
• Cincinnati Children's Program Aims to Improve Child Health Worldwide