Prof. Dr. Naim Shehadeh

internal medicine, endocrinology and diabetology, pediatrics

User Score	Experience	Rating	Price Range	Publications	Online Consultations
91%	42 years	9.8/10	$$$	188	Yes

Overview

Country, City

Israel, Haifa

Health facility

Rambam Health Care Campus Haifa

Medical unit

Department of endocrinology and diabetology

About the doctor

Prof. Dr. Naim Shehadeh is an experienced and highly skilled doctor specializing in internal medicine, endocrinology, and diabetology, with over 41 years of experience in the field. He is currently the Director of the Department of Endocrinology and Diabetology at the Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa, Israel. Dr. Shehadeh's career is marked by numerous achievements and contributions to the medical field. He has published a total of 188 scientific publications, showcasing his expertise and dedication to research. Some of his notable publications include studies on the effects of medical therapies on retinopathy progression in type 2 diabetes, the effectiveness and safety of long-term treatment with sulfonylureas in patients with neonatal diabetes, and the cultural and digital health literacy appropriateness of app- and web-based systems for pregnant women with gestational diabetes mellitus. Dr. Shehadeh's extensive experience and knowledge in the field make him highly regarded by his peers and patients. His specialization in endocrinology and diabetology and his research contributions demonstrate his ability to provide cutting-edge treatment and care to his patients. With his position at the prestigious Rambam Health Care Campus, patients can receive high-quality care and benefit from his expertise. Dr. Shehadeh's impressive career and dedication to improving patient outcomes make him a highly recommended doctor in endocrinology and diabetology.

Skills & Expertise

Resume

CV (Curriculum Vitae)

Education

1976-1982 Studied human medicine at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology
1982 Obtaining a license for a medical practice at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology
Defense of the dissertation
1983-1987 Residency, Department of pediatrics at the Rambam Health Care Campus Haifa
1987-1988 Chief resident, Department of pediatrics at the Rambam Health Care Campus Haifa
1988 Obtaining specialization in pediatrics
Habilitation and a teaching license
1988-1990 Residency, Department of endocrinology at the Rambam Health Care Campus Haifa
1990 Received additional qualifications in the field of endocrinology
1990-1992 Postgraduate research training at the Barbara Davis Center for the Study of Diabetes in Denver
2009 Vienna School of Clinical Research certification: “Introduction to clinical research and good clinical practice”

Experience

1982-1983 Rotating internship at the Rambam Health Care Campus Haifa
1992-2002 Deputy Director, Department of endocrinology and diabetology at the Rambam Health Care Campus Haifa
1998-2003 Coordinator of the clinical studies, Department of Nursing, University of Haifa and the Bruce Rappaport faculty of medicine at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology of Haifa
2002 Visiting Professor Program, Department of pediatric diabetes at the YALE University
2002-2016 Director, Department of Pediatrics and Head Department of pediatric diabetes at the Rambam Health Care Campus Haifa
2005-2016 Head of the Department of diabetology at the Clalit Health Services, Kotev Clinic, Akko, Israel
2006 Clinical Associated Professor at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology
2008 Chief Scientific Consultant at the Nutrinia of Israel
2009 Scientific Consultant of the Micromedic of Israel
2016 Director, Department of endocrinology and diabetology at the Rambam Health Care Campus Haifa

Awards & Memberships

1994 Invited Speaker at the Tel-Aviv University: "Prevention of type I diabetes with BCG vaccination"
1994-1999 Lecturer of the Bruce Rappaport faculty of medicine at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology Haifa of Israel
1995 Invited Speaker at the Kaplan Hospital: "Prevention of type 1 diabetes"
1995 Grant from the common fund of the Ministry of Health and the Technion: "Modulation of autoimmune diabetes in NOD mice using epitopes of glutamic acid decarboxylase"
1996 Grant from the bequest of Miss S. Finkelstein
1996 Invited Speaker at the Novo Nordisk-Steno course: "Treatment of newly diagnosed IDDM patients, for and against preventive therapy. Frontiers in clinical and experimental diabetes"
1996-1997 Grant from the Chief Scientist-Ministry of Health: "Anti adhesion molecule in preventing diabetes in NOD mice"
1997 Invited Speaker at the Institute of Endocrinology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center: "Strategies to prevent insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus"
1999-2006 Senior Clinical Lecturer of the Bruce Rappaport faculty of medicine at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology Haifa of Israel
2000 Outstanding Lecturer at the Bruce Rappaport faculty of medicine at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology
2001 Patent: "Addition of human insulin to infant formulas" approved by the Patent Corporation Treaty and by the U.S. patent and trademark office
2001 Invited Speaker at the Israel Diabetes Association meeting, Hyatt Regency: "Indications for the use of insulin analogs in type-1 diabetes"
2002 Invited Speaker at the conference of the Research Society for the Study of Diabetes in India: "Clinical benefits of insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitoring in diabetic children"
2002 Grant from San-Francisco diabetes research fund: "The effect of blood glucose levels on the quality of sleep in diabetic patients"
2002 Award of excellency as a clinician and researcher from the Israel Diabetes Association
2002 Invited Speaker at the faculty of food engineering, Technion: "Oral insulin: an important hormone for the development of the gastrointestinal tract"
2003 Patent: "Supplementation of edible products with insulin and insulin-like products"
2002 Hershel Rich Technion Innovation Award: "Human insulin additive for infant formula"
2003 Funding from the Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Labor for developing a new infant formula enriched with insulin
2003 Invited Speaker of the Department of pediatrics at the Naharya Hospital: "Type 1 diabetes update"
2003 Invited Speaker of the pump therapy integration workshop in Bern: "Insulin pump therapy in very young type 1 diabetic child"
2003 Invited Speaker of the 50th Anniversary of the Israel Diabetes Association in Jerusalem “Clinical islet transplantation: 2003 and beyond”
2004 Grant from the Israel Diabetes Association: "The contribution of the G264S and IVS8+2T>C mutation in the glucokinase gene to genotype-phenotype correlation - the development of diabetes"
2004 Novartis Prize: "Effect of subcutaneous insulin on intestinal adaptation in a rat model of short bowel syndrome"
2004 Invited Speaker of the Department of pediatrics at the Naharya Hospital: “Clinical islet transplantation: 2003 and beyond”
2004 Invited Speaker of the staff meeting at the Rambam Medical Center of Haifa: "Oral insulin: an important hormone for the development of the gastrointestinal tract"
2004 Invited Speaker of the Jerusalem pediatric meeting at the Hadassah Ein-Karem in Jerusalem: "Oral insulin: an important hormone for the development of the gastrointestinal tract"
2004 Invited Speaker of the Department of pediatrics at the Bnei-Zion Hospital of Haifa: "Clinical islet transplantation: 2003 and beyond"
2004 Invited Speaker of the annual Naharya update international meeting on emergency, circulatory, metabolic, and renal disorders at the Naharya Hospital: "Clinical islet transplantation: 2004 Update"
2004 Invited Speaker of the Yale University: “Oral insulin: an important hormone for the development of the gastrointestinal tract”
2004 Invited Speaker of the Yale University: "Permanent Neonatal Diabetes"
2004 Invited Speaker of the Clinical Pediatric Association meeting in Jerusalem: "Oral insulin: an important hormone for the development of the gastrointestinal tract"
2004 Member of the scientific committee at the annual meeting of the Israel Diabetes Association
2004 Active Participation in annual Naharya update international meeting on emergency, circulatory, metabolic, and renal disorders
2004 Member of the scientific committee of the Israel Diabetes Association for "Type-2 diabetes guidelines" in Tel-Aviv
2004 Chairman of the 1st Russell Berrie International diabetes symposium in Jerusalem
2005 Invited Speaker of the diabesity symposium from the Israel Diabetes Association and the Society of Pediatric Endocrinology in Tel-Aviv: "Metabolic programming"
2005 Invited Speaker of the annual meeting of the Israel Society of Clinical Nutrition in Tel-Aviv: "The influence of high carbohydrate nutrition on the development of immediate and late metabolic changes"
2005 Outstanding Lecturer at the Bruce Rappaport faculty of medicine at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology
2005 Patent: "Topical insulin analog for the treatment of skin diseases"
2005 Member of the organizing committee of the symposium "Diabesity" by the Israel Diabetes Association and the Society of Pediatric Endocrinology
2005 Active Participation in International congress on prediabetes and the metabolic syndrome in Berlin: "The influence of high carbohydrate on the development of immediate and late metabolic changes in balb/c mice"
2006 Raymond and Miriam Klein Technion Research Award
2006 Patent: "Identification of type 1 diabetes by a novel antibody detection"
2006 Outstanding Lecturer at the Bruce Rappaport faculty of medicine at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology
2006 Member of the scientific committee of the 1st International Conference on diabetes cell therapy in Tel-Aviv
2006 Member of the scientific committee and chairman of the annual meeting of the Israel Diabetes Association in Tel-Aviv
2006 Raymond and Miriam Klein Prize for Research, "New infant formula enriched with insulin"
2006 Invited Speaker of the unified task for preventive nutrition meeting: "Metabolic programming"
2007 Patent: "Methods of increasing weight gain or intestinal function in poultry"
2007 Patent: "Optic filter for prevention of cataract and retinopathy in diabetic patients"
2007 Active Participation in Amsterdam: "A novel biomarker for the diagnosis of autoimmune diabetes"
2008 Advisory Board Member of the Novo Nordisk
2008 Hershel Rich Technion Innovation Award
2008 Hershel Rich – Technion Innovation Award: "A novel biomarker for autoimmune diabetes"
2008 Scientist and Doctor of the month from D-Cure, Advancing Diabetes Care to Cure
2008 Chairman of the annual meeting of the Israel Diabetes Association in Tel-Aviv
2008-2009 Funding from the Chief Scientist: "Developing a new infant formula"
2009 Funding from Micromedic of Israel: "The presence of anti-MIP1a auto-antibodies in first-degree relatives of patients with type 1 diabetes"
2009 Invited Speaker of the annual national meeting for diabetes, obesity, and hypertension in Tel-Aviv: "GLP 1 Analogs, basic treatment for diabetes"
2009 Invited Speaker of the Arab health meeting in Nazareth: "Diabetes and obesity among the Arab population in Israel"
2009 Member of the organizing committee of the Arab health meeting in Nazareth
2009 Chairman of the technology-health policy and benefit at the International conference on advanced technologies and treatments for diabetes in Athens
2009 Chairman of the DeCure meeting in Tel-Aviv: "Nervous system, foot"
2010 Invited Speaker of the diabetes obesity and hypertension meeting in Haifa
2010 Member of the organizing committee at the diabetes obesity and hypertension meeting in Haifa
2010 Member of the organizing committee at the Arab health meeting in Nazareth
2010 Invited Speaker of the Israel Diabetes Association meeting in Tel-Aviv: "Congenital Diabetes"
2010 Invited Speaker of the liraglutide advisory board meeting in Johannesburg: "Liraglutide, basic treatment for obese diabetics - case studies"
2010 Chairman of cession at the Clinical Pediatric Association meeting in Tel-Aviv
2010 Funding from the Industrial Research and Development Foundation Canada-Israel join projects: "Improving production and swine health by novel feed additive"
2010 Advisory Board Member of the Eli Lilly
2010 Chairman of the International conference on advanced technologies and treatments for diabetes in Basel
2010 Chairman of the PS diabetes in childhood at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes Mellitus meeting in Stockholm
2010 Member of the scientific committee at the annual meeting of the Israel Diabetes Association
2010-2012 Expert Speaker of the Roche Diagnostics
2011 Invited Speaker of the Novonordisk liraglutide expert panel in Istanbul: "Liraglutide post-launch medical experience from Israel"
2011 Advisory Board Member of the Januvia/Januet, MSD of Israel
2011 Chairman of the International conference on advanced technologies and treatments for diabetes in London
2011 Chairman of the International Congress on prediabetes and the metabolic syndrome in Madrid
2011 Chairman of the annual meeting of the Israel Diabetes Association in Tel-Aviv
2011 Chairman of the annual meeting of the Israel Pediatric Association in Tel-Aviv
2012 Invited Speaker of the scientific meeting in Tel-Aviv: “Dietary Insulin: A trigger for type 1 diabetes”
2012 Invited Speaker of the annual meeting of the Society of Internal Medicine in Tel-Aviv: "Hypoglycemia"
2012 Head of the patent committee at the Rambam Health Care Campus Haifa
2012 Chairman of the annual meeting at the UM-Israel partnership for research at the Bruce Rappaport faculty of medicine at the Technion of Haifa: "Electricity and Sugar in the Heart"
2013 Chairman of the pediatric forum
2013 Chairman of the new insulins at the International conference on advanced technologies and treatments for diabetes in Paris
2013 Active Participation in the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association in Chicago: "Insulin treatment safely improving glycemic control in Muslim people with type 2 diabetes mellitus during Ramadan fast"
2014-2016 Otzma, Funding from D-Cure: "Prevention of diabetes in Nazareth"
2017 President of the Israel Diabetes Association
Patent: "Oral insulin as a growth factor in the gastrointestinal tract"