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