Prof. Rafael Gorodischer

Prof. Rafael Gorodischer Profile

Professor Emeritus
MD, 1964
Residency: Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Buffalo, N.Y.,

Professor Emeritus

Department : Pediatrics
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Email : rafaelg@bgu.ac.il
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Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology, Developmental Pharmacology, Pharmaco-epidemiology

Education

  • M.D. 1964

Research Interests

  • Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology

Research Projects

  • In-utero exposure to medications and offspring pathology

Research Topics

  • Prenatal exposure to medications and birth defects
  • Postnatal detection of adverse effects following in-utero exposure to medicines

Major expertise and techniques in the lab

  • Drug metabolism
  • Pharmacoepidemiology
  • Pediatrics
  • Clinical Pharmacology

Publications and funding summary / representative publications and grants

  • R Gorodischer, G Levy, J Krasner and SJ Yaffe: Congenital non- obstructive, non-hemolytic jaundice: effect of phototherapy. New England Journal of Medicine 282: 373-377, 1970.
  • Matok I, Gorodischer R, Koren G, Sheiner E, Wiznitzer A, Levy A: The Safety of Metoclopramide During The First Trimester of Pregnancy. New England Journal of Medicine 2009; 360: 2528-35
  • Weinstein O,: Shechter T, Gorodischer R.  A common failure in the physician- patient communication: Medication errors. International Journal of Medicine and Law (by invitation); 2016; 35: 47-60

Existing collaborations

  • Lena Novack, PhD. Department of Epidemiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben- Gurion University of the Negev

Suggested multi-disciplinary research project / research focus topics

  • Pharmacoepidemiology
  • Pediatric Pharmacology