A. Academic and Professional experience:

• 1981-1987 Israel Defence Forces Medical Corps, Officer, Head of department of the Bio-Medical Instrumentation Research and Development Branch. Rank: Captain.
• 1987-1994 Researcher at the fiberoptic laboratory, Department of physical electronics, and teaching assistant in charge of the Electronics Laboratories for students. both at the Faculty of Engineering, Tel-Aviv University.
• 1994-1997 Post doctoral position, FDA-Center of devices and radiological health, Office of science and technology, Electro-optics branch, with a fellowship by the American academy of sciences-National research council.
• 1997 ? 2001 Lecturer, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel-Aviv University.
• 2002-2005 On sabbatical followed by a leave of absence Senior guest scientist, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
• 2005-Present Visitng Professor at the George Washington University, Washington, DC.
• 2001-Present Associate Professor, tenured, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel-Aviv University.

Guest researcher:

• Sept-Oct. 1992: Guest researcher, Laser-Medizin-Zentrum (LMZ), Freie Universitat, Berlin. F.R. Germany. Thermal and optical properties of flexible waveguides.
• Sept.-Oct. 1993 Guest researcher, Laser-Medizin-Zentrum, (LMZ), Freie Universitat Berlin. F.R. Germany. Interaction between laser radiation transmitted by flexible waveguides and tissue.
• Spring 1993 Guest researcher, Fiberoptic Materials Research Program, Rutgers State University, Piscataway, New Jersey, U.S.A . The optical properties of fibers for IR laser radiation
• July-August 1998 Guest Researcher, Laboratory of Integrative and Medical Biophysics, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development National Institutes of Health, Bethesda Maryland, USA. Subject Biomedical Optical Imaging.
• June-October 1999 Guest researcher , Laboratory of Integrative and Medical Biophysics, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development National Institutes of Health, Bethesda Maryland, USA. Subject Biomedical Optical Imaging.
• June-September 2000 Guest researcher , Laboratory of Integrative and Medical Biophysics, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development National Institutes of Health, Bethesda Maryland, USA. Subject: Biomedical Optical Imaging.
• June-September 2001 Guest researcher , Laboratory of Integrative and Medical Biophysics, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development National Institutes of Health, Bethesda Maryland, USA. Subject Biomedical Optical Imaging.

Active participation in scientific meetings.

1. The 6th Meeting in Israel on Optical Engineering Tel-Aviv, December 19-21,1988.
2. Israel physics society meeting Technion, conference proceedings Haifa, March 28-29, 1989.
3. The 7th meeting of optical Engineering in Israel, Tel-Aviv, 12-14 December 1990.
4. American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery 12th meeting, Orlando, Florida, 17-19 May 1992.
5. The 8th Conference of Optical Engineering in Israel, Tel-Aviv 14-16 December 1992.
6. American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery, 13th Meeting, New-Orleans, 18-20 April, 1993.
7. The international Society for Optical Engineering /Bio-Medical Optics, San-Jose, February 1995.
8. NIH days, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD, September 18-22, 1995.
9. The Optical Society of America Meeting, Baltimore, 1995.
10. The international Society for Optical Engineering /Bio-Medical Optics, San-Jose, February 1996.
11. Optical Society of America Meeting on Biomedical Optical Spectroscopy and Diagnostics, Orlando, Florida, March 8-22, 1996.
12. American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery Meeting, Orlando, Florida, April 14-17, 1996.
13. Gordon Conference, Merriden New-Hampshire, June 30-July 5, 1996.
14. LEOS ‘96, 9th meeting, Boston, MA, November 18-21, 1996.
15. The international Society for Optical Engineering /Bio-Medical Optics, San-Jose, February 1997
16. The Israeli Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery, Beer-Sheba, 1998.
17. The international Society for Optical Engineering /Bio-Medical Optics, San-Jose, February 1998.
18. The international Society for Optical Engineering /Bio-Medical Optics, San-Jose, February 1999.
19. The Inter Institute Woekshop on Optical Imaging, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. September 1999.
20. The international Society for Optical Engineering /Bio-Medical Optics, San-Jose, January 2000.
21. EBIOS conferense on Endoscopy, fibers, waveguides and sensors, Amsterdam, The Netherland, July 2000.
22. The international Society for Optical Engineering /Bio-Medical Optics, San-Jose, January 2001.
23. Gordon Reseach Conference, New-Hampshire, July 2002.
24. The international Society for Optical Engineering /Bio-Medical Optics, San-Jose, January 2003.
25. American Society for Lasers Surgery and Medicine, Annaheim, CA, April 2003
26. IEEE/LEOS Annual meeting, Tucson Arizona, 2003.
27. The international Society for Optical Engineering /Bio-Medical Optics, San-Jose, January 2004.
28. OSA topical meeting, Miami Beach, FL, April 2004.
29. IEEE symposium on Computer based medical systems, Bethesda MD, July 2004.
30. Biomedical Imaging from Bench to Bedside Workshop, NIH, Bethesda, September 2004.
31. IEEE/LEOS annual meeting, Puerto Rico, November 2004.
32. The international Society for Optical Engineering /Bio-Medical Optics, San-Jose, January 2005.
33. Biomedical Engineering Educational Summit II, Lansdowne, VA, March 3-6, 2005.
34. OIDA Workshop on biophotonic sensors, August 17-18, 2005 Rochester NY.
35. NATO workshop on Photon-based Nanoscience and Technology: Materials, Diagnostics and Nanobiodevices, September 19 - 29, 2005, Auberge Estrimont, Orford, QC, Canada.
36. Photonics West/BIOS 2006, January 2006, San-Jose, CA.
37. summer school in Optical Fibers and Sensors for Biomedical and Environmental applications. October 2006, Gatineau, Quebec Canada.
38. Photonics West/BIOS 2007, January 2007, San-jose, CA.
39. Photonics West/BIOS 2008, January 2008, San-jose, CA.
40. International congress of biophptonics, February 2008, Sacramento, CA.

Fellowships:

• 1992 Minerva grant (Germany).
• 1993 1) American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery grant (U.S.A.), 2) DAAD grant (Germany).
• 1994 Minerva fellowship (Germany).
• 1994-7 National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council fellowship (U.S.A.).

Professional societies:

• AIMBE - American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering ? Fellow (awarded to the top 2% active scientists in the field in the US).
• ASLMS - The American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery ? Fellow
• SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering ? Fellow.
• OSA - Optical Society of America - Member

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