ד"ר אורי עבדי

Education:

1993-1999        Medicine, Hadassah and the Hebrew University School of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel

                         MD degree was accepted from Hadassah and the Hebrew University School of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel at 2000

Summer 1998   Summer School, Oncology for Medical Students, University of Groningen, Faculty of Medical Sciences

2000                 M.D Thesis: Ameliorating Graft Versus Host Disease Through the Induction of Oral Tolerance.

Work and professional experience:

2000-2001        

Intern, Rabin Medical Center, Petah-Tikva, Israel

2002- 7/2006      

1.      Research project on Interleukin-18 and Interleukin-18 binding protein in Crohn’s disease patients before and after Infliximab treatment, took place in the gastroenterology unit, Meir hospital, Kfar-Saba, guided by Dr. Timna Naftali.

2.      Reaserch project on the influence of fatty acid-bile acid conjugates on lipids metabolism and lipid content in rats feces, took place in Minerva center for cholesterol, gallstones and lipid metabolism in the liver, Sackler school of  

         medicine, Tel-Aviv university, guided by Dr. Alicia Leikin-Frenkel and Professor Fred Konikoff.

8/2006-1/2009    

Resident Physician, Department of Hematology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center.

2/2009 until  present time

Senior Physician, Hematology, Meir Medical Center , Kfar-Saba

Publications:

1.      Nagler A, Pines M, Abadi U, Pappo O, Zeira M, Rabbani E, Engelhardt D, Ohana M, Chowdhury NR, Chowdhury JR, Ilan Y. Oral tolerization ameliorates liver disorders associated with chronic graft versus host disease in mice. Hepatology. 2000  

         Mar;31(3):641-648.

2.      Naftali T, Abadi U, Novick  D, Gabay G, Rubinstein M,  Konikoff F.  Anti TNF therapy decreases IL-18 but not IL-18 binding protein in patients with active Crohn's disease. (presented in the AGA, Chicago, 2005).

3.      Abadi U, Hadary R, Shilo L, Shabun A, Greenberg G, Kovatz S. Myositis in Behcet's disease after tonsillectomy. Isr Med Assoc J. 2006 Apr; 8(4):294-295.

4.      Abadi U, Koren G, Lishner M. Leukemia and lymphoma in pregnancy. Hematol Oncol Clin North Am. 2011 April; 25(2):277-291

5.      Abadi U,  Butenero G, Kogan T,  Ziv O, Paran H, Ellis MH. Prolongrd blood storage does not effect survival in an animal model of hemorrhagic shock. Transfus Med Hemother, In Press.