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Itamar Raz M.D. is a professor of Internal Medicine at Hadassah University Medical Center and the head of the Diabetes Unit and Research Center at Hadassah. He also serves as the head of the Israel National Council of Diabetes and president of D-Cure a foundation that supports research in the field of diabetes. As president of the Israel Diabetes Research Group he collaborates with 18 other diabetologists in Israel conducting clinical research aimed at improving the treatment of diabetic patients. Professor Raz serves on the steering committee of several large international clinical studies.
In addition he serves on several advisory boards and is a member of several editorial boards including the Israeli Medical Association Journal (IMAJ).
Professor Raz has published extensively in the area of diabetes mellitus with over 170 publications to his credit. Professor Raz's research interests have focused on the pathologic mechanisms leading to diabetic complications mainly the relationship to vasoactive peptide. A large part of his research is searching for the pathophysiology of beta cell dysfunction and loss in diabetes | 