Meet Prof. Asnat Walfisch, Deputy Dean of the Dina Recanati School of Medicine at Reichman University. Prof. Walfisch is MD, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Specialist in Maternal Medicine and High-Risk Pregnancy, and Director of the Helen Schneider Women's Hospital, Beilinson Hospital, Rabin Medical Center. Prof. Walfisch, 51, is married to Dr. Celis Tagger (cardiac surgeon) and is the mother of three children: Roni (a second-year medical student), Yonatan (a combat soldier) and Itamar (a high school student) and lives in Tel Aviv. Prof. Walfisch completed her medical studies with honors at Ben-Gurion University, did her residency in gynecology at Soroka Hospital and Sheba Hospital, and subspecialty at the University of Toronto, Canada in the field of high-risk pregnancy. In the past, she managed high-risk pregnancy units at Hillel Yaffe Hospital and Soroka Hospital, as well as the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital. For the past two and a half years, she has been the director of the Women's Hospital at the Rabin Medical Center.
Prof. Walfisch has more than 150 scientific publications in the international press in the field of perinatal epidemiology, pregnancies at risk, and the relationship between the course of pregnancy and birth and the future health of the mother and the offspring. Prof. Walfisch is a scientific consultant at several start-up companies in the field of femTech – developments in the core of women's health. In addition, in the past, she hosted the program "Only Health" on Channel 12 and "A Doctor's Word" on Channel 11, along with other projects in the Israeli media.
Prof. Walfisch shares, "Women's health and medical education are my life's missions and the reason I get up every morning. I see both of these missions as a true mission and I feel fortunate for the privilege, and the weight of the responsibility, at the same time." She adds for prospective students, "Medicine, unlike perhaps other professions, is a way of life and a deep identity. This means devotion to one's identity as a doctor at any moment, in time, and in any place. Sometimes it's unbearable, but it's an opportunity to touch the core of life and do good – and it's worth everything."
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