Ilana Schlesinger
Ilana Schlesinger | |
|---|---|
אילנה שלזינגר | |
| Born | 25 September 1962 |
| Alma mater | Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of Massachusetts |
| Known for | Focused Ultrasound |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Neurology |
| Website | www |
Ilana Schlesinger (born September 25, 1962) is an Israeli neurologist specializing in movement disorders and Parkinson's disease. She is the Chair of Neurology at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and Director of the Movement Disorders Institute at Rambam Health Care Campus, as well as Chair of Neurology, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion. In collaboration with the Department of Neurosurgery, she founded the Center for MRI Guided Focused Ultrasound Treatment of Movement Disorders. Along with her team, she was the first to publish a case series describing the use of this technology for symptomatic treatment of tremor dominant Parkinson’s disease.[1][2] Schlesinger is the representative of the Association of Neurologists in the Parkinson's Lobby to the Knesset.[3]
Career
Schlesinger received her MD in 1989 from the School of Medicine at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and did her clinical training in neurology at the Hadassah Medical Center and at Meir Hospital in Kfar-Saba. Between 1998 and 2001, she completed a specialization in movement disorders and Parkinson's disease at the UMass Chan Medical School in Massachusetts.[4]
In 2015, Schlesinger published the successful results of using MRI guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) for thalamotomy to alleviate tremor in Parkinson’s disease, a far less invasive method than traditional surgical thalamotomy. In 2023, her results were published in the New England Journal of Medicine.[5][6] Since 2013, Schlesinger has been heading the Movement Disorders Institute at the Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa, where she founded a center for Focused Ultrasound Treatment of Movement Disorders.[7][8]
In 2023, Schlesinger was appointed Chair of Neurology of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, where she has been Clinical Associate Professor since 2024.
Awards
- Outstanding Researcher Award, European Academy of Neurology (EAN), 2016
- Excellence in Neurology Award, World Congress on Controversies in Neurology, London 2024
- Outstanding Lecturer, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, 2008, 2010, 2016, 2022, 2023, 2024
References
- ↑ "Rambam Health Care Campus-Team". www.rambam.org.il. Retrieved 2025-08-07.
- ↑ "Academic Staff". Technion Medicine. Retrieved 2025-08-07.
- ↑ "Open Knesset". oknesset.org. Retrieved 2025-08-07.
- ↑ "Rambam Hospital - doctors list". Retrieved 2025-08-20.
- ↑ Schlesinger, Ilana; et al. (2 September 2015). "MRI Guided Focused Ultrasound Thalamotomy for Moderate-to-Severe Tremor in Parkinson's Disease". Parkinson's Disease. 2015. Wiley: 1–4. doi:10.1155/2015/219149. PMC 4572440. PMID 26421209.
- ↑ Krishna, Vibhor; et al. (February 22, 2023). "Trial of Globus Pallidus Focused Ultrasound Ablation in Parkinson's Disease". N Engl J Med. 388 (8): 683–693. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa2202721. PMID 36812432. Retrieved 7 August 2025.
- ↑ "Focused Ultrasound - revolutionary new treatment for Essential Tremor and tremor caused by Parkinson's disease". www.ihospitalonline.org.il. Retrieved 2025-10-23.
- ↑ "-אולטרסאונד ממוקד (FUS) לטיפול ברעד ראשוני ופרקינסון-אולטרסאונד לטיפול ברעד ראשוני - FUS | טיפול בפרקינסון | הקריה הרפואית רמב"ם". www.rambam.org.il (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2025-08-07.