Thursday 6th June 2024 | 8pm
Speaker: Lord Turnberg
We are honoured that Lord Turnberg, one of the leading British physicians of our times (and a Patron of the Jewish Medical Association) will be joining us to talk about his latest book “Patients First: How to Save the NHS”, published 20th May 2024.
Leslie Turnberg was President of the Royal College of Physicians; head of the Public Health Laboratory Service; a founder of the Academy of Medical Sciences; and for over 20 years has spoken in the House of Lords on health issues and the NHS. In his latest concise, accessible and focused book, he explains how the caring services must evolve, with a patient-centred model taking centre stage. He outlines how he feels that in 2024 the important aim must be to bring the disillusioned workforce back into satisfying and contented employment.
In addition, Leslie makes outstanding contributions to debates in the Lords about “Middle East issues”, supports Jewish healthcare professionals, and promotes links between the medical communities in the UK and Israel.
Copies of Lord Turnberg’s book will be available for sale at the webinar for £10; if you are going to be attending online you will be able to order them.
Option to join in person, or online.
In person: At South Hampstead Synagogue, Eton Rd, NW3 4AY
Pre-lecture reception: 7:15-8:00pm
Online: Lecture will commence at 8:00pm
(Please indicate your choice when you register)
Special online webinar to mark Yom Hazikaron (Remembrance Day) and Yom Ha’atzmaut (Independence Day)
Thursday 9th May 2024 at 8:00pm
Speaker: Mr Elliot Sorene
Eliot is a British Israeli Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, veteran of the Lebanon security zone conflict and reserve service in Gaza. He was a trauma surgeon during the second Intifada. He is the father of Ariel Sorene, who survived the Nova massacre in 07/10/23.
Probably many of you will have read his moving articles, and heard his talks, particularly his London Jewish News opinion piece which concluded: “Hamas has accompanied me my whole adult life and has now entered my son’s life. I hope that my grandchildren will never know of this evil. This story, however, is not about me and my son, who are alive. It is about Marnie Kimelman, Dominique Hass, and Jake Marlowe, whose faces will never leave my mind. As I have continued with my life and career, married, built a home, and raised a family, and as I age, they remain the same, forever young and frozen in time forever”.
To watch a recording of the event click here.
Speaker: Dr Charlotte Benjamin
(Chief Medical Officer, NHS North West London, and GP Partner at St George’s Medical Centre, Hendon)
Dr Charlotte Benjamin graduated from University College London Medical School in 1997. She has been in General Practice in North West London since 2002. In addition to her patient contact work, she plays a key role in medical leadership and management. As Chief Medical Officer she brings the clinical voice to the ICB Executive.
Dr Benjamin is responsible for weekly coordination of chief medical, nursing, and operating officers in order to optimise urgent and emergency care performance across North West London. Her role includes enabling endorsement of clinical pathways and support of the clinical reference groups via the clinical leadership community. Her approach, as Senior Responsible Officer for London wide primary care deliberation, aims to foster the role of patients in deliberative engagement in healthcare.
In her lecture, Dr Benjamin focused on the doctor-patient partnership: how to maximise patient activation to optimise patient health wellbeing outcomes. The aim of patient engagement is to improve quality of services. To achieve this, it requires both quantitative and qualitative feedback. Dr Benjamin will also discuss her work on “re-imagining mental health”; and in understanding communities who are more hesitant to engage with healthcare, as manifested during her Covid-19 vaccine work.
The recording can be accessed here.
Speaker: Prof. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari
Founding Academic Director, Rackman Centre for Advancement of Womens’ Status,
Bar Ilan University.
The Dina 7/10 Project was formed on an ad hoc basis after Oct 7, and consists of a group of senior female lawyers (from a wide variety of legal disciplines) and other experts who got together after identifying the need for assistance and advice, and for the treatment of the challenges that had arisen.
Prof. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari is an expert on family law and international women’s rights. She is the Founding Academic Director of the Rackman Center for the Advancement of the Status of Women at Bar-Ilan University Law Faculty in Israel. She served 12 years on CEDAW, twice as Vice-Chair and as first Chair of the Working Group on Inquiries. She has published extensively in her areas of expertise, including “Women in Israel” (pub Univ. of Pennsylvania Press) and co-editor of the CEDAW Commentary (2nd edition OUP).
International awards include the US States Department Women of Courage Award and the Human Rights Award 2024 of the Ingrid zu Solms-Stiftung Foundation in Germany. In 2018 she was one of Apolitical 100 most influential people in gender policy worldwide.
She is committed to achieving justice and recognition for the victims of the sexual violence and gender-based atrocities executed by Hamas on Oct. 7. Since Oct. 8 her reputation as a leading human rights defender and her experience on CEDAW has allowed her to navigate and gain access to international human rights bodies and Israeli authorities. She has held meetings with leading decision-makers at the UN and was instrumental in arranging the fact finding mission by the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative for Sexual Violence in Conflict, Ms. Pramila Patten.
In Prof Halperin-Kaddari’s presentation she discussed Conflict-Related Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (CRSGBV), focusing on the atrocities committed by Hamas during the October 7th massacre. She examined the evolution of international responses, Israeli authorities handling of an unprecedented event within its borders, the fostering of an international narrative, advocacy for an international investigation, and the pursuit of justice against the perpetrators.
Watch a recording of the event here.
Thursday 14th March 2024 | 7pm
With Professor Daphna Hacker
(Professor of Law, Tel Aviv University; Independent Expert Member of CEDAW)
Prof Hacker is a legal scholar and a sociologist in the Law Faculty and Women and Gender Studies Programme, Tel Aviv University. She is an Israeli feminist and is currently an independent expert member of the International Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
In her talk Prof Hacker discussed the atrocious attack of Hamas on Israel through the gender lens, including gender violence, female hostages, men and women as combat soldiers and as medical assistance providers and recipients, and mothers at the home front. It will also discuss the lack of women around the decision making table, and women’s leadership through civil society in an attempt to end the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and bring security and prosperity to the region.
Watch a recording of the event here.
An update report on Jewish Medical Association UK Activities | Tuesday 27th February 2024 | 8pm
Speakers: Charlotte Benjamin (London President), David Katz (Executive Chair) and Fiona Sim (Professional Regulation Officer)
Register to the event here.
Wednesday 24th January | 19:00 GMT
Shani Levany is the granddaughter of Lia Huber, a survivor of the twins experiments in Auschwitz. She finished medical school this past summer and will soon be starting an internship. She is the TA for the course “Medicine’s reflection in the Holocaust” at the Goldman Medical School, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er-Sheva, Israel; and is the head of the Student Advisory Council to the Lancet Commission on Medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust.
Watch a recording of the event here.
Dr Kviat will be speaking together with Prof Alex Zlotnik, Prof of Anaethesiology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, and Chair, Dept of Anaesthesiology, Soroka Medical Centre, Beersheva on Anaesthesia and Trauma Care at the front line in Soroka Medical Centre.
In addition, Prof Yehuda Ginosar (Director, Mother and Child Anaesthesia Unit, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Centre), will give an update on the ongoing situation in Israel.
Watch a recording of the event here.
Dr Shlomo Gensler, Emergency Pre-hospital and Flight Physician for United Hatzalah; Anaesthesia Resident, Dept of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Hadassah Ein Karem University Hospital
Tuesday 26th December | 19:00 GMT
Dr Gensler will give a first-hand account of how events unfolded on 7th October and explain the emergency pre-hospital medical response during that fateful day. This will be followed by an account of experiences treating the wounded in the Hadassah University Hospital Intensive Care Unit.
Watch a recording of the event here.
Israel at War – Special online medical webinar Tuesday 24th October 2023 | 8:00pm UK time Speaker: Dr. Ruth Waitzberg Myers – JDC – Brookdale Institute, Jerusalem, Israel. Watch a recording of the event here.
Dr. Ruth Waitzberg is a research scholar at the health policy unit at the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute, where she started working in 2010. From 2020, she is also a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Healthcare Management at the Berlin University of Technology, and at the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. She is on the Board of two journals: Health Policy Open and Israel Journal of Health Policy Research.
Ruth has a bachelor’s degree in sociology and anthropology and political science and a master’s degree in public policy, both from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; a PhD in health systems management; and a Dr. P.H. done jointly between Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel and the Berlin University of Technology in Germany.
Her primary research areas are financing health systems, payments to health providers and financial incentives, health insurance, policy evaluation, health and long-term care systems, and international comparisons.
