Prof. Yona Amitai
Born in Israel in 1947, married and father of 5 children.
Medical studies:
University of Bologna, Italy 1966-1969, and The Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel (1969-1972, MD- cum laude).
Board Certified in Pediatrics, Toxicology, Clinical Pharmacology and Public Health.
Fellowship in Toxicology at the Children's Hospital, and the Harvard Medical School, Boston USA (1984-6).
Senior physician at the Hadassah University Hospital Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem Israel (1978-1999).
Chairman of the Faculty Review Committee in Pediatrics, Hadassah- Hebrew University Jerusalem (1994-8).
President of the Israeli Society of Toxicology (1996-2002).
Director, Department of Mother, Child and adolescent Health, Ministry of Health, Israel (1999-2007).
Master in Public Health, the Hebrew University Hadassah Jerusalem, 2003
Chairman of the Israeli Ambulatory Pediatric Association (from 2008)
Pediatrician in Primary care in Maccabi Health services and Meuhedet, Jerusalem since 2007
Chairman of the scientific Working Group of the ECPCP
Author of over 120 scientific papers and chapters in the medical literature.
