Pioneering Health Care Hadassah Medical Organization
Research that is changing lives every day. Hadassah researchers and doctors: • Discovered a 10 percent greater frequency of specific breast cancer (BRCA 1 and BRCA 2) mutations among Ashkenazi Jewish women, as well as discovered breast cancer mutations in Yemenite and Sephardic women. • Developed Human Stewart Greenberg was diagnosed with Stage 4 Melanoma. Stewart Embryonic Stem Cell consulted various physicians—including those at the National Institute of Lines suitable for humans Health—but he was told that there was no treatment that could save him. • Identified a defective Prior to his diagnosis, Stewart and his wife, Maggie, had decided to go on a gene and halted Miami Jewish Federation mission to Israel. While there, a friend had arranged paralysis of babies’ an appointment at the Hadassah Medical Organization in Ein Kerem with limbs and vocal cords a melanoma specialist—Dr. Michal Lotem, head of the Center for Melanoma • Defined the safety and Cancer Immunotherapy at Hadassah’s Sharett Institute of Oncology. and efficacy of stem cell technology in Stewart was accepted into one of Dr. Lotem’s clinical trials where he treating ALS would receive a personally tailored melanoma vaccine. Stewart and • Discovered a Maggie, a Hadassah Life Member, moved to Jerusalem for 99 days. compound that Stewart’s treatment involved 21 injections of the vaccine over a 90-day dramatically shrinks period. “Hadassah is an incredible place,” he says, “caring, sweet, loving, lung tumors with such respect for the patients.” • Pioneered a new treatment for “When people think of Israel,” Stewart notes, “they think of sand and liver cancer soldiers, camels and war. I would like them to know about the biomedical • Led the world’s largest achievements and how Israel contributes to the health of our world.” skin bank • Established the Before his diagnosis, Stewart knew little about Hadassah. He has since world’s only registry shared his story with the members of several Hadassah chapters in for Arab bone marrow Florida and does so with great enthusiasm. donors Stewart Greenberg received a new lease on life thanks to the pioneering • Proved that Vitamin D increases longevity of work of Dr. Lotem and Hadassah Medical Organization.“Dr. Lotem,” he heart failure patients 5 says, “has given me a chance to fight.”
Stewart Greenberg: receiving a new lease on life
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