About Us

The professional team

The Stuchinski Ramat-Gan Alzheimer Research and Treatment Center maintains a 1:1 ratio between staff and residents. The staff includes physicians, nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, and social workers. Most of the staff hold academic degrees and bring many years of experience to the Center. Staff members regularly attend continuing education workshops to keep up with the developments in their fields.

Michael Davidson, MD - Chairman. Dr. Davidson is a tenured professor at Mount Sinai Medical School in New York City, and at the Sackler Medical School at Tel Aviv University. He is the chairman of psychiatry at the Sheba Medical Center, Israel. Dr. Davidson is a major contributor to Alzheimer's disease research. More than 250 of his articles have been published in the international scientific literature.

Martine Szyper-Kravitz - MD, Medical Director. Dr. Szyper-Kravitz who is a Board Certified internist and immunologist, also serves as associate director of medicine at the Sheba Medical Center. She is on the faculty of the Sackler School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University.

Aviva Even Zahav - RN PhD (pending) who is head of nursing is an experince geriatric nurse. She is the leading authority in Israel on wounds care in the elderly. Her PhD thesis is on food and diet in old age. She has letured and published on both topics

Nitai Eliash - L.L.B., the Center's Chief Operating Officer. He has a law degree from the Ono Academic College in Israel.

Liat Ayalon, Ph.D. - Alzheimer's disease researcher. Dr. Ayalon has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, and is now at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. She is a researcher in gerontology with a particular interest in caregivers.

Noga Gurevitch SW - has a BA from Bar Ilan University and a degree on cognitive and behavioral psychotherapy. She has extensive experience in crisis management and group therapy .