ISSN: 2578-6520
Director and Professor
Department of Medicine
Baruch Padeh Poria Medical Center
Bar Ilan University
Israel
Prof. Arnon Blum is Professor of Medicine, Bar Ilan University, Israel; He is the incoming Director of Internal Medicine Department in the Faculty of Medicine, and a member of 5 steering committees at Bar-Ilan University's School of Medicine in the Galilee. Prof. Blum received his MD at the Technion, specialized in Internal Medicine at Hebrew University, and then in Cardiology at Tel-Aviv University. He served in the IDF as a Flight Surgeon (Lieutenant Colonel). Since 1999 Prof. Arnon Blum has been the Director of the Internal Medicine Ward at Baruch Padeh Medical Center-Poriya, Tiberias. Prof. Blum further concentrated on Vascular Biology and Vascular Stem Cell research, receiving his training at the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, MD, USA; 1997-1999 and 2006-2008) exploring means for cardio-vascular regeneration. In 2011-12, he was invited as a visiting Professor to lead a clinical trial at the University of Miami for adult (mesenchymal) stem cell transplants to patients with severe heart failure. There, he discovered a key mechanism that explains the beneficial effects of cell transplantation to the failing heart. Prof. Blum's research interests include 1) Endothelial Progenitor Stem Cell Research; 2) Endothelial Function and Vascular Biology; 3) Heart Failure and Preventive Cardiology; 4) Stem Cell Transplantation for Cardiovascular Disease.
