RESEARCH GROUPS
Vladimir Maizus
Moshe Inbar (University of Haifa ) – Social Science; Environment
Moshe Inbar is a Prof. Emeritus at the Geography and Environmental Studies Department at the University of Haifa. His research focus is Fluvial Geomorphology and Natural Disasters. He conducted and published research studies on volcanic eruptions (Hudson, Puyehue- southern Andes, Tolbachik-Kamchatka) tsunami (Thailand 2004, Chile 2010) landslides ( Puebla-Mexico 1999) floods (Jordan river 1969, 2003, Ambato river, Argentina, 2013)
He is the Co editor of DESASTRES NATURALES EN LATINO AMERICA (2002), as well as NATURAL DISASTERS IN ISRAEL (2007,2016). He has about 20 publications in international journals on the topic and many other activities (conferences, scientific adviser, teaching)In addition, he established a Website on Natural disasters in Israel- data base from 1948-2017 (see:https://geo.hevra.haifa.ac.il/~inh/index.php/en)
Gila Hyams (Rambam Health Care Campus; Technion) – Public Health and Emergency Medicine
Mrs. Gila Hyams has been Director of The Teaching Center for Trauma, Emergency and Mass Casualty Situations (MCS) at Rambam Health Care Campus since 1999 and is the Trauma Coordinator of Rambam’s Trauma Unit. She is the Director of Nursing at Rambam since 2015.
Mrs. Hyams received her BA (RN) from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem and Assaf Harofe Medical Center School of Nursing, Tzrifin in 1990, followed by an MA in Nursing from Tel Aviv University (2002) and a Diploma in Medical Services Administration for Senior Staff from the University of Haifa (2002).
Mrs. Hyams has coordinated for 13 international courses on developing and organizing a trauma system and MCS organization. In addition, she has organized and led workshops and courses to further development of local emergency and trauma systems in Italy, Malta, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Portugal, Latvia, Estonia, Croatia, Puerto Rico, U.S.A., Chile, India, and Thailand. In April 2005, Mrs. Hyams coordinated a NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Mass Casualty Situations held in Haifa, Israel. Since then two other NATO courses were held at Rambam, one in November, 2009 and another in November, 2014. The latter course focused on Hospitals under Fire—Operating Hospitals under Extreme Circumstances.
Among her public activities, Mrs. Hyams is a member of the Israel National Trauma Council and has collaborated with the Israel Trauma Society in organizing eight Definitive Surgical Trauma Care (DSTC) Courses. She also established and organized the Israeli Trauma Mass Casualty Nursing Courses
Yale T. Herer (Technion) - Engineering, Technology and Planning
Yale T. Herer, B.S. (1986), M.S. (1990), Ph.D. (1990), Cornell University, Department of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering. Yale is currently an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and is serving as Head of the Industrial Engineering Area. Yale joined the Technion in 1990 immediately after the completion of his graduate studies. In 1997 Yale moved to the Department of Industrial Engineering at Tel-Aviv University and in 2001 he returned to the Technion and has been there ever since. During the 2004 – 2005 academic year he spent a sabbatical at Northwestern University in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences. During the 2011 – 2012 academic year he spent the fall semester on sabbatical at INSEAD in the Technology and Operations Management Area. During the 2015 – 2016 academic year he spent a sabbatical at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Yale also briefly visited Cornell University in the Department of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering in the summer of 2000. He has worked for several industrial concerns, both as a consultant and as an advisor to project groups. Yale is a member of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (\mbox{INFORMS}) and the Operations Research Society of Israel (\mbox{ORSIS}). He also serves as an Associate Editor for {\it Naval Research Logistics} and has served on the editorial staff of {\it IIE Transactions} and {\it Operations Research Letters}. Yale's research interest can be broadly defined as covering Production Planning and Control. More recently Yale has focused his research on the area of Supply Chain Management, especially when integrated with transshipments or other responsive operational activities. Yale has won various prizes including a 1996 {\it IIE Transactions} Best Paper Award, the 2002 Mitchner Award in Quality Sciences and Quality Management, a 2008 IBM Faculty Award, and most recently INFORM's 2013 Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice.
Michael (Miki) Halberthal MD, MHA (Rambam Health Care Campus; Technion) – Public Health and Emergency Medicine
Dr. Michael (Miki) Halberthal is the General Director of Rambam Health Care Campus. Born in Tel Aviv in 1958, he is married and the father of four. Dr. Halberthal earned his M.D. in 1986, from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. His postgraduate training was completed at Rambam Health Care campus in Pediatrics and Pediatric Critical Care. As one of Rambam's leading postgraduate trainees, Dr. Halberthal was chosen to pursue a further subspecialty fellowship in Pediatric Cardiac Clinical Care at the world-renowned Brompton & Harefield Institute in London, U.K. After returning to Israel, Dr. Halberthal successfully established the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Service at Rambam, which continues to be one of the most active and successful services of its kind. In 1996, Dr. Halberthal completed a combined advanced clinical and research fellowship at the University of Toronto and the Hospital for Sick Children in Canada. In addition to numerous hospital activities, Dr. Halberthal completed his M.H.A. in Health and Hospital Administration at Tel Aviv University's Recanati School of Business Administration (2012).
Since 2001, Dr. Halberthal has held various professional leadership positions at Rambam, including serving as the Director of Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care, Director of Hospital-wide Emergency Triage, and Senior Staff Physician in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of Rambam. In 2009, he joined the Executive Leadership at Rambam and as the Director of Medical Operations. At the end of 2013 Dr. Halberthal was appointed Deputy Director of Rambam, primarily responsible for medical human resources; allied medical services; safety, quality, and risk management; emergency preparedness and the international trauma school and became the hospital’s General Director in 2019.
Dr. Halberthal served for over 30 years in the Israel Defense Forces Airborne Rescue and Evacuation Unit. He was actively involved in the coordination of international civilian air rescue and transport of emergency care patients.
A Clinical Lecturer (Educator) in the Technion’s The Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Dr. Halberthal is active in research and has published scholarly articles in the areas of hospital management, pediatric critical care, trauma and mass casualty preparedness, and airborne medicine. He is an active and highly regarded lecturer and teacher to medical students, residents and fellows, nursing staff and students, and allied health professionals in those domains of expertise.
Shay Gueron (University of Haifa) - Engineering, Technology and Planning; Public Health and Emergency Medicine
Shay Gueron is an Associate Professor of mathematics at the University of Haifa, Israel. He was also an Intel Senior Principal Engineer, serving as Intel’s Senior Cryptographer (2005-2017). His interests include cryptography, security and algorithms. He is now a Senior Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services.
Shay is responsible for some of Intel processors’ instructions such as AES-NI, PCLMULQDQ and coming VPMADD52, and for various micro-architectural features that speed up cryptographic algorithms. He contributed software to open source libraries (OpenSSL, NSS), with significant performance gains for symmetric encryption, public key algorithms and hashing. He was one of the Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) technology architects, in charge of its cryptographic definition and implementation, and the inventor of the Memory Encryption Engine. He is a co-author of AES-GCM-SIV, a nonce misuse resistant authenticated encryption mode, which is now being considered as an internet draft by the IETF. Shay is interested in data integrity and recovery technologies, that still preserve sensitive data privacy. Such techniques can be considered as acceptable safeguards in cases of a cyber-disaster.
Noam Greenbaum (University of Haifa) – Environment; Social Science
Noam Greenbaum is an associate professor in Geomorphology and hydrology at the department of Geography and Environmental Studies and the department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, the University of Haifa, Israel. He received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1996 where he also spent his 2-year post-doc. Since then, his main area of research is past and present floods, dambreak floods, floods risk assessment and damage in Israel and worldwide (United States, Namibia, Spain). Another major area of research is past and present earthquakes in Israel in the framework of the state preparedness for earthquakes. As a consultant he was involved in the geological feasibility study (1989-1992 and 1996-2001) of locating a safe site for a Nuclear Power Plant in the Negev for the Israel Electric Corporation. He was also consulting the Dead Sea Works on floods and risk assessment. Another research area is forest fires and their effects on soils as well as industrial fires and their environmental effects. At present, he is involved in several local and international projects dealing with floods and sediments.
He is the author of more than 65 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters.
Sharon Gil (University of Haifa) – Welfare and Social Work
Sharon Gil, Ph.D. is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Social Work, University of Haifa and a clinical social worker, psychotherapist, and clinical supervisor; head of the clinical social work specialization in the MA program. My research projects have consistently derived from my clinical work. While working at the psychiatric clinic in Rambam Medical Center, I treated trauma patients. Accordingly, my doctoral research and the publications that followed (see sample list below), focused on the relationship between dissociative amnesia, caused by traumatic head injury, and the development of PTSD. Later on, I have expanded my research to include various personality features as risk factors for subsequent PTSD. In recent years, both my clinical work and my research efforts focus on adults' survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Below is a sample list of recent or most contributing publications.
Sample list of recent or most significant publications
Gil, S., Caspi, Y., Ben-Ari, I., Koren, D., & Klein, E. (2005). Does memory of a traumatic event increase the risk for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in patients with traumatic brain injury? A prospective study. American Journal of Psychiatry, 162(5), 963-969.
Gil, S. (2005). Evaluation of pre-morbid personality factors and pre-event posttraumatic stress symptoms in the development of posttraumatic stress symptoms associated with a bus explosion in Israel. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 18(5), 563-567.
Gil, S. (2005). Pre-traumatic personality as a predictor of posttraumatic stress disorder among undergraduate students exposed to a terrorist attack: A prospective study in Israel. Personality and Individual Differences, 39, 819-827.
Gil, S. (2014). Male Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse by a Male or Female Perpetrator. Journal of Traumatic Stress Disorder & Treatment, 3(3), 1-6.
Gil, S. (2015). Is secondary traumatization a negative therapeutic response? Journal of Loss and Trauma, 19(5), 1-11.
Gil, S. (2015). Risk Factors for Traumatic Exposure and for Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms (PTSS). Journal of Loss and Trauma, 20, 245-252.
Weinberg, M., & Gil, S. (2015). Trauma as an Objective or Subjective Experience: The Association between Types of Traumatic Events, Personality Traits, Subjective Experience of the Event, Levels of Dissociation and Posttraumatic Symptoms. Journal of Loss and Trauma, 21(2), 137-146.
Gil, S., Weinberg, M. Shamai, M. Ron, P. Harel, H. Or-Chen, K. (2016). Risk factors for DSM 5 Posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) Among Civilians During the 2014 Israeli-Hamas war. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 27, 1-6.
Gil, S. (2016). Building Concern Free of Force in the Treatment of Adult Survivors of Childhood Incest. British Journal of Psychotherapy, 32(2), 175-186.
Anat Gesser-Edelsburg (University of Haifa) – Public Health and Emergency Medicine
Prof. Anat Gesser-Edelsburg is the head of the Health Promotion Program at the School of Public Health and the founding director of the Health and Risk Communication Research Center at University of Haifa. She is also Associate Editor of Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness Journal. Her last book titled Risk Communication and Infectious Diseases in an Age of Digital Media (2016) was published by Routledge Studies in Public Health. Her areas of research include health and risk communication, social marketing, persuasive communication, health-promotion programs, entertainment-education and qualitative research.
Yoram Gerchman (University of Haifa) - Environment
Dr. Yoram Gerchman is a faculty member in Oranim college (since 2005) and a research associate in University of Haifa. His research span many aspect of biology, from ecology, through biochemistry and up to applied research with special emphasis on water treatment and water safety, an issue of off utmost importance under emergency conditions where clean water is many times an issue and waterborne pathogens become common. To-date Dr. Gerchman has published 43 papers in peer-review journals, with 2295 citations.
His undergraduate, master’s and Doctorate degree are from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and he did his post-doc in Princeton University in the USA.
Avigdor Gal (Technion) - Engineering, Technology and Planning
Professor Avigdor Gal of the Faculty of Industrial Engineering & Management at the Technion is a Technion graduate and an expert on information systems. His research focuses on effective methods of integrating data from multiple and diverse sources, which affect the way businesses and consumers seek information over the Internet. In particular, support emergency and disaster management require integrating ad-hoc information sources to quickly collect and analyze data. Gal has expertise in handling smart city sensor data.