Tzvi Dwolatzky MD, MBBCh
Tzvi Dwolatzky is the Director of Geriatrics at the Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa, Israel and is Associate Clinical Professor of Geriatrics and Vice Dean at the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He graduated in medicine at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa and has since devoted his professional career to the field of Geriatrics and to the care of older people. He is the chairman of the Israel Geriatrics Society, is the Director of the American Medical School at the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, is a member of the steering committee of the Israel National Dementia Strategy, and is a member of the National Geriatric Council of Israel. He represents Israel on the Full Board of the European Geriatric Medical Society. His research and clinical interests focus predominantly on the use of technology for the diagnosis and treatment of age-associated cognitive impairment and dementia, healthy aging and centenarians, delirium, frailty, integrated health care for the elderly, and global health issues. He is the Editor of the Geriatric Section of the Frontiers in Medicine Journal, has published widely, edited and written chapters in books, and has presented his research at international scientific conferences. He is active in promoting medical education and has received multiple wards for teaching.
