Clinical Medicine Insights: Reproductive Health

Dr Blumenfeld is director of the “Women’s Health Centre”, and in charge of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the Kupat Holim Meuhedet health fund. He is also a senior physician of reproductive endocrinology and infertility in Obstetrics & Gynecology at the RAMBAM Medical Center in Haifa, Israel. He has published over 195 papers on reproductive health, mostly from a clinical perspective. He has been a board member, reviewer or referee for dozens of organizations and journals.

Dr. Zeev Blumenfeld is an Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, in the Faculty of Medicine at Technion (Israel Institute of Technology). Previously he was a senior lecturer, and before that taught anatomy, embryology and neuroanatomy at Hebrew University and Hadassah Medical School, where he got his MD. He has also held a fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology at UCSF. He teaches obstetrics, gynecology, reproductive endocrinology, reproductive physiology and infertility to medical and post-graduate students.

His interests lie in reproductive endocrinology, inhibin and activin in human reproduction, hypophysiotropic and neuroregulatory modulation of fetal human pituitary glands, infertility and assisted reproduction, immunologic problems in infertility, and prevention of POF in young women receiving gonadotoxic chemotherapy.

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