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Irit Ben-Aharon, MD, PhD

Rambam Health Care Campus
Haifa, Israel

Prof. Irit Ben-Aharon is the Director of Oncology Division at Rambam Health Care Campus.
Prof. Ben-Aharon completed the MD-PhD joint program of Tel-Aviv University and the National Institute of Health's (NIH) and was awarded her PhD in developmental biology. She completed her oncology training at Rabin Medical Center, followed by a fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York as a Fulbright scholar in 2014-2015 focused on gastrointestinal malignancies and young-onset cancer. Prof. Ben-Aharon returned to Israel in 2015, and led the gastrointestinal oncology at Davidoff Center, Rabin Medical Center from 2016. In 2018, she was appointed as the director of the Division of Oncology at Rambam Health Care Center, the largest tertiary medical center of Northern Israel. Prof. Ben-Aharon had been nominated as a senior member of the Israeli National Health Basket Committee for 2020. She is a member of the Israeli 8400 healthtech network.
Prof. Ben-Aharon's laboratory is located in the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion. Her main research themes involve aspects of young cancer patients – a main theme is the toxic effects of anti-cancer treatments on fertility and blood vessels and the second is the pathogenesis of early-onset GI cancers. She is actively involved in clinical and translational research within international organizations in Europe and USA and leads the young-onset cancer task force in the GITGC, EORTC and a faculty member of ESMO gastrointestinal cancer (non-colorectal) group. Prof. Ben-Aharon serves as Co-Editor in Chief with Prof. Florian Lordick of the new ESMO GI Oncology journal.

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