Final note: CATCH (the Center for Assessment Technology and Continuous Health), the new (non-profit) Boston-based innovation initiative I recently co-founded with MGH Chief-of-Medicine Dennis Ausiello (who will lead the effort) and several others, seeks precisely this balance between potential and attained health.

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Pinchas Halpern, chair of the emergency department at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, and Shmuel Shapira, a director of programs at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem who previously led the trauma branch of the Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps, spent time at MGH as part of a years-long mission that takes them around the world sharing their experience with medical responses to terrorist bombings.

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He completed his residency with a focus on immunology, followed by a four-year fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in immunology and immunopathology.

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