LAB MEMBERS
Prof. Galit Almoznino
Principal Investigator
Prof. Almoznino is an Oral Medicine specialist and an Epidemiologist. Prof. Almoznino is a Senior Lecturer of Oral Medicine at the Hebrew University. She serves as the Head, Big Biomedical Data Research Laboratory, and as the Head of the Orofacial Sensory Clinic as well as the Taste and Smell Clinic, Department of Oral Medicine Sedation & Maxillofacial Imaging, Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Dental Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel. She is the immediate past President of the Israel Society of Oral Medicine (ISOM) (2017-2018) and a member of the Hadassah Medical Center Institutional Review Board. Prof. Almoznino is a member of the Board of examiners in Oral Medicine Specialty in Israel. She is a member of the Hebrew University Center for Research on Pain, a roof organization uniting several research laboratories and clinics of the Hebrew University.
Prof. Almoznino is involved in Big Biomedical Data Research at the Faculty of Dental Medicine at the Hebrew University/Hadassah. She received several grants to work with large digital datasets, in the fields of autoimmune conditions (mobile health project) as well as analyzing oral morbidity and associations with systemic morbidity (EMR based project). Prof. Almoznino established the first large scale EMR -based study in dentistry in Israel entitled:" The Dental, Oral, Medical Epidemiological (DOME) study". This project is aimed to analyze dental morbidity and associations with systemic morbidity. Prof. Almoznino is a graduate of the Hebrew University/Hadassah, where she graduated a D.M.D (Doctorate in Dental Medicine) degree in 1996.
Prof. Almoznino also completed a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree at the Hebrew University/Hadassah (Oral microbiology, thesis supervisor: Prof. Doron Steinberg, the head, Biofilm Research Laboratory).
She completed Summa cum laude an M.H.A (Master of Health Administration) degree at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. In 2007, she completed a recognized specialty training in Oral Medicine and Orofacial Pain at the Hebrew University/Hadassah and was certified as an Oral Medicine Specialist. Prof. Almoznino also completed Summa cum Claude an MPH degree (Epidemiology and biostatistics stream).
From 2007-2015, Prof. Almoznino served as the Head of the Department of Oral Medicine, at Tel-Hashomer, Israel, a multi-disciplinary Oral Medicine Department, which serves as a secondary referral center for Oral Medicine, receiving referrals from local general medical and dental practitioners throughout the country.
Team
Phd Students
Phd Student
Dr. Adiel Cohen
Dr. Adiel Cohen is a resident in Obstetrics and Gynecology in Hadassah Medical Center and is currently a Phd student. His thesis is focused on Examining the associations between dental and oral health with fertility and obstetrics outcomes. Adiel is analyzing data from the Dental, Oral, Medical Epidemiological (DOME) database.
Phd Student
Dr. Itay Aizenbud
Itay started his academic journey in 2014 by successfully enrolling to the Faculty of Dental Medicine, The Hebrew University and Hadassah, Jerusalem, Israel. He achieved his B. Med. Sc. Degree in 2018. From there he continued his studies in the combined track of Dentistry and Master of Science degrees at the Faculty of Dental Medicine, The Hebrew University and Hadassah, Jerusalem, Israel. The research thesis is carried out under the supervision of Prof. Avi- Hai Hovav from the Institute of dental research and Prof. Rakefet Cezrnenski from the Oral Medicine Department. Research Project title was: The role of Langerhans cells in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma. In 2019, he was chosen to be chairman in Immunology and Oral biology in the IADR general session, Vancouver, BC, Canada. He received his M.Sc. degree in 2020 and graduated as one of the top in his class in 2022 accomplishing his D.M.D. degree.
Itay now serve as an army dentist in the IDF, commanding on a dental clinic in one of the IDF bases’. By that contributing back to the society and to his country.
Itay continues his academic career in the Prof. Almoznino Lab by doing his Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Galit Almoznino and Prof. Asaf Willensky in the field of big data. He researches the relation between Periodontal disease to other factors such as socio-demographic factors, health conditions, Metabolic syndrome and other dental pathologies such as carries.
MSc. Students
MSc. Student
Nitzan Aizenbud
Nitzan has recently graduated with a B. Med Sc. degree (2021). Simultaneously she started her studies in the combined track of Dentistry and Master of Science degrees at the Faculty of Dental Medicine, The Hebrew University and Hadassah, Jerusalem, Israel. The research thesis is carried out under the supervision of Prof. Doron Aframian and Prof. Galit Almoznino from the Oral Medicine Department.
The research project title is Salivary cytokines characterization of Sjörgen Syndrom patients following intraductal irrigation of salivary glands.
MSc. Student
Shmuel Shay Shiloh
Shmuel Shay Shiloh has recently graduated with a B.Med.Sc degree (2021) and is a DMD-MSc. Student at the Faculty of Dental Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His current study is using big data technology to analyze and predict rheumatic diseases. Before his study, Shmuel served for 6 years in an elite intelligence forces unit as data and big data developer and team leader.
MSc. Student
Rawi Saad
Rawi Saad is a DMD-MSc. Student at the Faculty of Dental Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The research thesis is carried out under the supervision of Prof. Prof. Tal Burstyn-Cohen and Prof. Galit Almoznino.
His Thesis is focused on Analysis of inflammatory markers in oral fluids of Rheumatic Arthritis patients.
MSc. Student
Amina Massarwa
Dr. Amina Massarwa is a resident at the Department of Oral Medicine, Sedation and Maxillofacial imaging, Hebrew University of Jerusalem-Hadassah School of Dental medicine and currently is a MSc student at the same institute. Her study is focused on the "Assessment of prophylactic treatment to prevent salivary gland damage in thyroid cancer patients receiving radioactive iodine therapy" under the supervision of Prof. Doron Aframian and Prof. Galit almoznino.
MSc. Student
Levi Elkin
Levi graduated with a B.Med.Sc degree and is a DMD-MSc student at the Faculty of Dental Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His MSc. thesis examines the associations between Migraine and Cluster headache and their association with TMDs and dental status: Analyses of the Dental, Oral, Medical Epidemiological (DOME) Big Data Study.
MSc. Student
Berta Harel
Berta graduated with a B.Med.Sc degree and is a DMD-MSc student at the Faculty of Dental Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her MSc. thesis examines Disparities in self-perceived oral health status, utilization of dental services within the dental profession reform, attitudes toward the use of Telehealth, and positive oral health and wellbeing among senior citizens in the center compared to the periphery in the State of Israel.
MSc. Student
Eyerus Degu
Eyrus is an MSc student at at the Faculty of Dental Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her MSc. thesis is Revealing the Impact of Congenital Neutropenia (CN) on Periodontitis in Yemenite Jews and Establishment of Experimental Model to Study CN-Periodontitis Interplay.
MSc. Student
Dr. Israel Rubin
Israel focuses Sociodemographic and dental characteristics of patients with Recurrent Aphthous Stomatitis- a nationwide record- based Big Data study
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MSc. Student
Dr. Alaa Zedan
Analyzing longitudinal databases of patients with proration sensory, smell and taste disturbances- a big data records based study
MSc. Student
Dr. Dan Hakimov
Longitudinal Analysis of Endodontic Treatments During 2012-2020 – A Big Data Analysis of a Nationwide Cohort
MSc. Student
Dr. Rina Berlin
Temporomandibular joint disorders (TMDs) and obesity, BMI, and cognitive performance: data from the Dental, Oral, Medical Epidemiological (DOME) nationwide records-based study
MSc. Student
Erez Harush
Periodontitis trends 2012-2020 and its association with Body Mass Index (BMI) while controlling for dental, medical, and sociodemographic parameters- a nationwide big data study
MSc. Student
Salman Bader
Trends in surgical treatments and associations with metabolic morbidity: a big data study among a nationwide sample (2010-2020)
MSc. Student
Royee Peer
Demographic, clinical, and radiological predictors for malignant transformation of
oral and maxillofacial dysplasia to oral squamous cell carcinoma
MSc. Student
Talia Clausen
Sociodemographic, Genetic, and Clinical Characteristics of Patients with Oral Mucositis and Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease: Treatment Response, Efficacy, and Tolerance
MPH Students
MPH Student
Noa Zlothover
Noa has recently graduated with a Medical doctor (M.D) degree (2022). Simultaneously she started her studies in the combined track of M.D and Master of public health at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Her thesis is focused on Examining the associations between dental and oral health, smoking, and metabolic dysfunction. Noa is analyzing data from the Dental, Oral, Medical Epidemiological (DOME) database. The research thesis is carried out under the supervision of Prof. Galit Almoznino from the Oral Medicine Department and Prof. Hagai Levine from the faculty of public health.
Interim Students
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MPH Student
Anita Tova Soffer
Intrim affiliation is with Touro University - Unsupervised Machine Learning Multi-Dimensional Validation of the Integration of Syntactic and Semantic Distance Measures for Clustering Periodontitis Patients in the UK Biobank
Computer Science & Statistics BSc. Students
Student
Avner Bar-On
Avner is a BSC. Student for Computer science and Statistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His study is using statistical methods and advanced machine learning algorithms to analyze and predict cardiovascular outcomes in rheumatic disease patients.
Student
Dan Eshel
Dan is a BSC. Student for Computer science and Statistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His study is using statistical methods and advanced machine learning algorithms to analyze and predict cardiovascular outcomes in rheumatic disease patients.
Student
David Guedalia
David is a BSC. Student for Computer science and Statistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His study is using statistical methods and advanced machine learning algorithms to analyze and predict COVID-19 morbidity outcomes in rheumatic disease patients.
Student
Avi Kogan
Avi is a BSC. Student for Computer science and Statistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His study is using statistical methods and advanced machine learning algorithms to analyze and predict COVID-19 morbidity outcomes in rheumatic disease patients.
Student
Sapir Mechali
Sapir is a BSC. Student for Computer science and Statistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her study is using statistical methods and advanced machine learning algorithms to analyze and predict cancer outcomes in rheumatic disease patients.
Student
Yitzhak Spolter
Yitzhak is a BSC. Student for Computer science and Statistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His study is using statistical methods and advanced machine learning algorithms to analyze and predict cancer outcomes in rheumatic disease patients.
Student
Chen Goldstein
Chen is a BSC. Student for Computer science and Biology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Student
Yuval Zitser
Yuval is a BSC. Student for Computer science and Statistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His study is using statistical methods and advanced machine learning algorithms to analyze and predict metabolic syndrome outcomes in rheumatic disease patients.
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Student
Ron Wiesel
Ron is a BSC. Student for Computer science and Statistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Student
Gal Getz
Gal is a BSC. Student for Computer science and Statistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Student
Liora Lipsky
Liora is a BSC. Student for Computer science and Statistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Student
Moral Bootbool
Liora is a BSC. Student for Computer science and Statistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Student
Noga Unger
Supervised machine learning of patients with fibromyalgia
Student
Shani Sova
Unsupervised machine learning analytics of patients with Periofontal disease
DMD Students
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Student
Noya Ytzhaik
Noya is a fifth-year DMD student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
She has graduated with a B. Med Sc. degree (2021). Her DMD thesis is about obstructive sleep apnea, and its associations to periodontitis and metabolic dysfunction.
Student
Doron Ram
Doron is a fifth year DMD student at the Hebrew University.
His DMD thesis entitled: The Triangle of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Metabolic Dysfunction, and Periodontitis: Analysis of the Dental, Oral, Medical and Epidemiological (DOME) Records-Based Nationwide Research.
Student
Emily Koren
Emily is a fifth year DMD student at the Hebrew University.
Her DMD thesis entitled: Diabetes Mellitus and its association with dental status: Analyses of the Dental, Oral, Medical Epidemiological (DOME) Big Data Study
Student
Eden Gelliss
Eden is a sixth year DMD student at the Hebrew University.
Her DMD thesis entitled: Big data project in dentistry –the use of dental crowns and its association with socio-
demographic parameters and systemic morbidity among soldiers in the Israeli army
between 2010-2020 using data from the DOME – (Dental Oral Medical Epidemiological) Study.
Student
Israel Rubin
Israel is a Fourth year DMD student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
"He graduated with honors a B. Med Sc. degree (2021). His DMD thesis is entitled: "COVID-19, and its associations with dental status and metabolic dysfunction
Student
Ella Anna Pekerman
Ella is a Fourth year DMD student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Her DMD thesis is entitled: Big data project in Dentistry: Anemia and its Association with Socio-demographics, Health Habits, and dental parameters, using data from the DOME – (Dental Oral Medical Epidemiological) Study.
Student
Karen Pinchevsky
Karen is a Fourth year DMD student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Her DMD thesis is entitled: Big data project in Dentistry: C- reactive protein and its association with C- reactive protein and its association with dental morbidity, sociodemographic, behavioral, and medical parameters, using data from the DOME – (Dental Oral Medical Epidemiological) Study.
Student
Salman Bader
Salman is a 6th year DMD student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
His DMD thesis is entitled: Trends in caries experience in Israel 2012-2020: Analysis of the Dental, Oral, Medical Epidemiological (DOME) Nationwide Big Data Study
Student
Alin Elkayam
Alin is a 6th year DMD student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Her DMD thesis is entitled: Trends in teeth loss in Israel 2012-2020: Analysis of the Dental, Oral, Medical Epidemiological (DOME) Nationwide Big Data Study