Yedidia Bentur (Rambam Health Care Campus; Technion) – Public Health and Emergency Medicine
Clinical Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Technion. Graduated the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa. Was trained in Intensive Care and completed a full residency program in Internal Medicine in Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa. This was followed by a three-year fellowship in Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario.
Current positions are director of the Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology Section and the Israel Poison Information Center, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, and Clinical Professor of Medicine and Toxicology, The Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa. Served as chairperson of the Israel Society of Toxicology and chairperson of its Scientific Committee. Has been chairperson of the National Antidote Committee of the Israel Ministry of Health, and member of several other national committees dealing with preparedness of hospitals to multi-casualty toxicological incidents, CBRN (Medical Corps, Israel Defense Forces), drug registration, children safety and standards of consumer products.
Edited the last two editions of Medical Management Monographs of Hazardous Materials Multi-Casualty Incidents: Hospital Guidelines, published by the Emergency Division, Israel Ministry of Health.
Served as Vice-Dean for Clinical Academic Appointments, The Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa.
Has been on the editorial boards of Clinical Toxicology (the official journal of the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology, American Association of Poison Control Centers, and the European Association of Poison Control Centres and Clinical Toxicologists), and the Israel Medical Association Journal (IMAJ).
Was elected as fellow of the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology, American College of Medical Toxicology, and the European Association of Poison Control Centres and Clinical Toxicologists.
Research areas: epidemiology of acute poisonings, poisonous plants, venomous animals, and pharmacokinetics and toxicokinetics.
Published more than 110 articles in scientific journals dealing mainly with clinical toxicology, and 20 chapters in toxicological and pharmacological textbooks.