Scientific Advisory Board

Prof. Elon Eisenberg, Co-Founder

Prof. Eisenberg is Director of the Multidisciplinary Pain Relief Unit at Rambam Medical Center, and is also a professor at the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. His main areas of research include mechanisms and treatment of neuropathic pain including CRPS, cancer pain, opioids and electrical stimulation. Prof. Eisenberg has published over 150 articles, book chapters and abstracts on various areas of pain. He is former Chairman of the executive board of the Israeli Pain Association. Prof. Eisenberg graduated from Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, completed a residency in Neurology at Rambam Medical Center, Haifa Israel, and a Neurology-Pain Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston.

Dr. Chris Gilligan

Dr. Gilligan is Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Pain Medicine, and is an instructor in Anesthesia Harvard Medical School. He graduated with honors from Harvard University and received an M.Phil. from Cambridge University. He received his medical degree with honors from Yale University School of Medicine and was a resident in general surgery at Brigham & Women's Hospital. He completed residency training in Emergency Medicine in the Harvard affiliated emergency medicine residency and fellowship training in pain medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr Gilligan received an MBA from Harvard Business School and was a senior associate at TVM Capital.

Dr. Itay Goor-Aryeh, Co-Founder

Dr. Goor-Aryeh is an expert in pain medicine and anesthesia. He is Director of the Pain Management Center at Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel and former Chairman of the executive board of the Israeli Pain Association. Previously Dr. Goor-Aryeh served as Director of Invasive Pain Management Program at Beth Israel Medical Center Pain Clinic, Boston. He has published many articles on pain and pain management. Dr. Goor-Aryeh is a graduate of the Sackler School of Medicine at Tel-Aviv University. He completed his residency in anesthesia and a fellowship in anesthesia and pain management at Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston.

Prof. Yeshayahu (Shai) Katz

Prof. Katz is Director of the Department of Anesthesiology, Rambam Medical Center and is also a professor at the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. Previously Prof. Katz served as the Director of the Department of Anesthesiology, HaEmek Medical Center, Afula. He was a Visiting Professor at the Department of Anesthesiology, Hermann- Memorial Hospital of the University of Texas, Houston. His main area of research is the pharmacology of anesthetic agents and apoptosis of neuronal cells in the central nervous system. He has published over 85 scientific articles, and serves on the review board of several leading scientific journals. Prof. Katz has received numerous grants and was awarded the Hershel Rich Technion Innovation Prize. Prof. Katz received his M.D. from Hadassah Medical School, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He completed his residency at Rambam Medical Center and received a D.Sc. in the Medical Sciences from the Department of Pharmacology at the Faculty of Medicine of the Technion.

News

September, 2011:
Medasense Biometrics chosen to present at the 8th Annual Israel Strategic Partner and Venture Conference on September 22, 2011

September, 2011:
Results of Medasense supported research were presented at "Pain in Europe VII", the 7th Congress of the European Federation of International Association for the Study of Pain Chapters

August, 2011:
Medasense Biometrics technology is featured in a newspaper article “Feel its pain: why the healthcare system doesn’t have a standard for measuring pain?” by Gali Weinreb, Globes, August 27th, 2011

June, 2011:
Medasense Biometrics has appeared on "The Landes Shortlist of Promising Israeli Technologies", by C. Wylie, Cell Cycle, Vol. 10, pp. 1887-1881.

May 2011:
Medasense to present at ILSI- Biomed Israel 2011 (Monday, May 23, 18:10 – 18:30)

December 2010:
OHV and Dr. Shmuel Cabilly invest in Medasense Biometrics

November 2010:
Results of Medasense supported research were presented on the annual conference of the Israel Pain Association

June 2010:
Medasense to present at Personalized Medicine World Conference 2010 Israel

December 2008:
Capital Point invests in Medasense Biometrics