US Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro, and his wife Mrs. Julie Fisher, visited MSR, the Israel Center for Medical Simulation to get a first hand understanding of the advances in medical simulation. Director of the Center Professor Amitai Ziv demonstrated the impressive array of simulator technologies that help doctors from Europe, the Palestinian Territories, North Africa, and the U.S. perfect their procedures before working on actual patients. Prof. Ziv |
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highlighted the partnerships between MSR and leading U.S. medical institutions such as, the Mayo Clinic of Minnesota, Case Western University, New York Presbyterian, and many more.
Ambassador Shapiro was impressed with MSR activities and said: "gratified and very excited to learn of the many intricate and deep medical partnerships between Sheba doctors and scientists and their American counterparts". |