RESUME
TAMARA

PROFILE

An expert, eloquent and versatile professional with strong leadership and organizational skills. A therapeutic specialist with advanced scientific training and degrees (MD, PhD). A scholar in the area of medicine with extensive healthcare research background.

Proven leadership in the health arena with record of success including as head of a hospital oncology/ambulatory unit and head of clinical laboratory.

Strong experience in interfacing between hospital units and community physicians.

EDUCATION

MPA Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA, 2005

Concentration in Negotiation

PhD Maastricht University and Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 2004

MD Tel Aviv University, Israel, 1991

WORK AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

1. Head of Surgical Unit, Rabin Medical Center, Israel 2002 - 2004

• Established and built all the activities of a new cancer unit in the largest HMO Hospital in Israel

• Responsible for all administrative activities, including management, strategic planning, financial oversight, procurement of new equipment and recruitment and training of staff

2. PhD Fellow, the Netherlands 2001 - 2004

3. Mohs Surgery Fellow, the Netherlands 2001

4. Private Surgeon, Israel 1997-2001

5. Reconstructive Surgery Fellow, Mexico 1997

6. Surgery and Plastic Surgery Resident, Israel and Mexico 1990-1997

7. Voluntary work, 1992-2005

• Established a breast cancer clinic in a penitentiary institution in Israel, and for over ten years volunteers provided education and treatment for female prison detainees

• Established free checkups and early detection of skin cancer

• Has operated since 2002 an internet consultation site on skin cancer: http://www.ynet.co.il/home/0,7340,L-2227-14825,00.html. To date this free advisory column gave consultation to over 2500 people

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) Instructor, American College of Surgeons and Israel Defense Forces, 1996 – 2003

• Demonstrated success in teaching in academic organization including: State Medical License courses, Plastic Surgery courses, Intensive Care course for nurses and Pediatric Care course for nurses. Was elected by students as the best teacher in the above programs

• Served as an education officer in the Israeli Defense Forces 1978-1980 and Commander-Tutor Cadet at the IDF Military Academy, 1980 – 1981

GRANTS AND AWARDS

• Wexner scholarship, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2004-5)

• Mohs Surgery fellow, the Netherlands (2001-4)

• Dean's list, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel (1994)

PUBLICATIONS

A. Referenced papers

20 publications as the first author

B. International conference presentations

23 presentations

C. PhD Thesis

"Optimization of Incisions in Cutaneous Surgery including Mohs' Micrographic Surgery. The Validity of Paradigms in Skin Surgery". The entire PhD thesis was published in peer reviewed journals and presented world wide

REFERENCES

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