Join Jewish Federation of St. Louis for the next event in the SH’MA: Listen! Speaker Series featuring Eithan Galun, M.D on Monday, January 11 at 5:45 pm; registration opens at 5:15 pm.
Professor Eithan Galun, M.D., will highlight recent achievements and advancements at Hadassah Medical Organization through healing, teaching and research. He will draw from entrepreneurial stories in the Bible to tell a larger story of modern Israel, proving that when it comes to entrepreneurship, there are more success stories than in most other areas of the world.
Eithan Galun earned his M.D. in 1978 from the Sackler Medical School, Tel Aviv University. Today, he is Director of the Goldyne Savad Institute of Gene Therapy at Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital in Jerusalem, Israel. He also serves as Chief Medical Officer of Theravir Management, Ltd. and was the principle investigator in a Medgenics’ clinical trial. He is an author of eight patents and is one of Israel’s leading researchers of liver diseases and gene therapy. Dr. Galun is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center.
The event will take place at The J’s Staenberg Family Complex at 2 Millstone Campus Drive. For further information or to RSVP, please contact Barbara Levin at BLevin@JFedSTL.org or 314-442-3752. You can also learn more about the SH’MA: Listen! Speaker Series and apply for your organization’s speaker to be featured at JFedSTL.org/SpeakerSeries.
This program is co-sponsored by Washington University in St. Louis, School of Medicine, Biologic Therapeutics Center; Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital; Missouri Cures Education Foundation and Jewish Federation of St. Louis. SH’MA: Listen! is supported by the Lubin-Green Foundation, a supporting Foundation of Jewish Federation of St. Louis, and Hank Webber and Chris Jacobs.