The Future is Already Here: Rambam Explores Prestigious Collaboration for Diagnoses via International Database
Rambam is exploring participation in an exciting international project spearheaded by Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, one of the world’s leading health care institutions. The project involves using cutting edge science, technology, analytics, and an international database for rapid detection and treatment of disease. To promote this research collaboration, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Haifa and the North initiated a meeting at Rambam Health Care Campus.

​Professor Joel Dudley, Associate Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences at Mount Sinai, recently came to
Haifa to attend a meeting on the Future of Medicine, sponsored by the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
Professor Dudley is Director of the Institute for Next Generation Healthcare, a unique research center seeking
to revolutionize the future of medical care via research involving the patient’s genetic data.
During his visit, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Haifa and the North organized a meeting with
Rambam Health Care Campus to explore areas of research cooperation between the two institutes. Professor
Dudley met with Professor Rafi Beyar the Director and CEO of Rambam; Dr. Hagit Baris-Feldman, Director of
Rambam’s Genetics Institute, attorney Ronya Rubinstein, Director of the R&D Unit, and Dr. Nadav Ben Haim,
CEO of Rambam MedTech, Ltd.—the hospital’s technology transfer company. Professor Dudley presented the
innovative project he is leading, which involves sweeping changes in the diagnosis of disease and treatment of
patients. A patient arriving at a medical facility would be examined not only for his initial complaint. A
technologically advanced sensor system would be connected to the patient for evaluation of multiple biological
systems, including the patient’s genetic system. Data would then be processed and analyzed based on the
patient’s own information as well as that of patient data stored in an international database. Instead of
spending weeks, or even months, visiting different physicians in the quest to identify the cause and treatement
for the patient’s medical condition, they would receive a precise diagnosis and treatment plan within a matter
of hours.
A laboratory like this—the first of its kind in the world—is already in operation in Mount Sinai’s research
department. Professor Beyar and Dr. Baris-Feldman expressed great interest in participating in this
international research project and both groups are currently exploring collaborative opportunities.
Accompanying Professor Dudley at the Rambam meeting was Moshe Zurich, Assistant to the President of the
Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Haifa and the North. Zurich said that the Chamber would be honored
to be a part of this exciting collaboration and to contribute to its ongoing success.
Rambam's visionary physician scientists have already brought many vital discoveries and health care
innovations to Israel and the world. Rambam’s research programs encompass a wide array of clinical
applications and are characterized by an integrative, multi-disciplinary approach to curing disease.
Rambam’s unsurpassed commitment to supporting employee-initiated research and innovation has led to
several noteworthy accomplishments, including: creation of the Clinical Research Institute at Rambam Clinical
Research Institute at Rambam (CRIR); establishment Rambam MedTech, which facilitated, together with
Medtronic, IBM, and Pitango, the opening of Haifa’s digital medicine incubator—MindUP; and a unique
cooperation between Rambam, University of Haifa, and the Technion for construction of a Health Discovery
Tower—an advanced medical research institute currently being constructed on Rambam's west campus.

​Pictured: Professor Rafi Beyar (bottom left) with Professor Dudley (top right) during their meeting.
Photo Credit: The Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Haifa and the North