פרופסור EITAN FRIEDMAN, M.D. Ph.D. CURRICULUM VITAE

Dr. Eitan Friedman is the founder of the Oncogenetics unit, Sheba Medical Center (SMC) and its director from 1995-2021 and the founder and director of the Meirav high risk clinic in the same medical center from 2007-2021. Dr. Friedman graduated in 1979 from the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University. From 1982-1987, he specialized in Internal Medicine at SMC. From 1987 to 1992, he worked as a post doctoral fellow at the Molecular Pathophysiology Branch, at the NIH, in Bethesda, MD. Between 1992-1994 at the Department of Clinical Genetics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm Sweden, he was a visiting scientist, and earned his molecular biology PhD. Upon returning to Israel in 1994 he finished his genetics residency and established the oncogenetics service at SMC, and the Meirav high risk clinic in the same medical center. After retiring from Sheba in March 2021, he is currently the head of the personalized preventive medicine initiative at Assuta Medical center, Tel Aviv. From April 2020 to June 2023 he was the head of the Ministry of health Helsinki committee for genetic studies. Dr. Friedman was a tenure track full professor, Department of Genetics and Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University (now emeritus). He has trained 15 PhD and 32 Masters students, and ~40 physicians on 6-month rotations. He has published or was a co-author of more than 460 original articles in peer reviewed journals, and contributed 10 book chapters. Dr Friedman is involved in medical education at several levels: organizing courses for students and physicians in Israel, Brazil, and Uruguay, hosting medically oriented TV shows, and publishing three medically oriented children's books. Last but not least, Dr. Friedman is the first Israeli to complete a solo swim across the English Channel (1993) and swim around Manhattan (1989).