In an act of solidarity with the people of Israel, and in particular with its medical community, seventy prominent American professors attended a US-Israel Solidarity Medical Conference this week in Jerusalem. The conference, held November 24 - 25, was sponsored by the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Boston and Hadassah, and was meant to be a counterbalance to the divestment campaign and other anti-Israel activities on US university campuses. ?We're saying no to the European boycotts and to the university divestment campaigns and we're showing support for Israel,? said Harvard's Ben Sachs, American Conference Chair and Chief of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Twelve attendees came from Harvad University alone.
Guest lecturers included Professor Jordan J. Cohen, President of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and Professor Gary R. Fleisher, Chief Pediatrician of Boston's esteemed Children's Hospital. The solidarity conference focused on the treatment of victims of conventional and non-conventional warfare, with Israeli physicians presenting a breakthrough treatment for trauma, developed as a result of many ?unhappily learned lessons,? as explained by Professor Shmuel Shapira, Deputy Director General of Hadassah University Hospital. Also on the agenda were lecturers addressing changes in emergency medicine and trauma, cancer diagnosis and treatment, fertility, pregnancy and obstetrics.
Guest lecturers included Professor Jordan J. Cohen, President of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and Professor Gary R. Fleisher, Chief Pediatrician of Boston's esteemed Children's Hospital. The solidarity conference focused on the treatment of victims of conventional and non-conventional warfare, with Israeli physicians presenting a breakthrough treatment for trauma, developed as a result of many ?unhappily learned lessons,? as explained by Professor Shmuel Shapira, Deputy Director General of Hadassah University Hospital. Also on the agenda were lecturers addressing changes in emergency medicine and trauma, cancer diagnosis and treatment, fertility, pregnancy and obstetrics.