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Overview of the APF

The American Physicians Fellowship for Medicine in Israel (APF), founded in 1950 by a group of American Jewish physicians to show solidarity with their professional colleagues in the newly founded State of Israel, is dedicated to assisting in the development of Israel as a world-class medical center.

Programs and grants directed to the improvement of medical education, research and health care in Israel, APF's broad-based membership has been in the forefront of establishing ongoing connections between the medical communities of Israel and North America. Not tied to any one Israeli institution, APF strives create real people-to-people linkages with all of Israel's medical schools, hospitals, and medical institutions.

Our Fellowship program has provided supplementary grants to young Israeli physicians coming to the US and Canada for specialty training. APF fellowship grants have been awarded to over 1,000 Israeli healthcare professionals, many of whom today fill senior positions in Israel's hospitals and medical schools. Each year, forty Israeli physicians currently receive such fellowship support.

Programs of the APF

• Dr. Manuel M. Glazier Institute of the History of Medicine
• Emergency medical help for Israel by maintaining the official register of American physicians, nurses and allied health professionals ready to volunteer in case of need.
• Funding important medical research projects by young Israeli physicians through the Edward H. Kass Fund and other research awards.
• Support for Israel's trauma program administered by the Medical Corps of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
• Helping initiate Israel's first Podiatry programs.
• Supporting Russian immigrant physicians retraining in Israel.
• Providing intensive specialty training in the U.S. for Israeli nurses from hospitals throughout Israel through the Solomon Hirsh Nurse Fund.
• Medical missions and equipment donations in areas of need, including support for a Jewish-Arab Mammography mission to Ramallah Hospital on the West Bank.
• CME seminars in Israel and North America led by world-renowned experts.

Additional Areas of Focus

• The APF supports training and research in Women's Health in Israel. We sponsor annual visits to Israel by leading U.S. experts on Women's Health. We work with the Israel Association for the Advancement of Women's Health (IAAWH), the Israel Women's Network (IWN), and the Counseling Center for Women (CCW).
• The APF provides grants to technologists in Israel's pathology laboratories, bringing them to leading American medical centers to learn the latest techniques and apply them in medical centers in Israel.

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