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| 1. Increasing Participation in
Rehabilitation |
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Non-participation in Cardiac Rehabilitation: An
Analysis Utilizing Classification and Regression Trees. Published
in the Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation. 2005;25:88-92.
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Participation Rates, Safety and Effectiveness of Aggressive
Cardiac Rehabilitation in Elderly Patients. 2nd World Conference
on Jewish Social and Medical Services for the Elderly, Jerusalem,
December 2004.
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Coronary Risk Factor Management in the Framework of a Community
Hospital-Based Ambulatory Exercise Training Program. Published
in Preventive Cardiology, Spring 2004.
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Use of Classification and Regression trees (CART) for Predicting
Non-participation in Programs of Cardiac Rehabilitation. Oral
Presentation at World Federation for Cardiac Rehabilitation,
Dublin, Ireland, May 2004.
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Patient Recruitment to Cardiac Rehabilitation: Characterizing
Patients Admitted to Intensive Care and Internal Medicine Wards.
Oral Presentation at Israel Institute for Health Care Planning,
November 2003.
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Epidemiological Determinants of Non-Participation in Cardiac
Rehabilitation Oral Presentation at Israel Institute for Health
Care Planning, November 2003. |
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| 2. Psychological Aspects of Rehabilitation |
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The contribution of the wife’s psychological resources
to her husband’s recovery after Acute MI. Poster presentation
at The 20th European Health Psychology Society Conference Social
Change and New Challenges for Health Psychology. 30 August-
2 September, 2006 in Warsaw, Poland |
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"What Made Me Sick?": Analysis of Disease Etiology
as Perceived by Hospitalized Patients. Oral Presentation at
Israel Heart Society annual meeting, April 2004.
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Cries of a Broken Heart: Psychological Interfaces in Cardiac
Rehabilitaton. Invited Lecture: Bar Ilan University, February
2004. |
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| 3. Sub-populations Who Benefit
from Rehabilitation |
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Elderly - Safety and Effectiveness
of Aggressive Cardiac Rehabilitation in Elderly Patients with
Ischemic Heart Disease. Oral Presentation at Israel Heart Society
annual meeting, April 2002. |
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Diabetics - Impact of Cardiac
Rehabilitation on Outcomes of Interventional Treatments in a
Diabetic Population. Oral Presentation at Israel Heart Society
annual meeting, April 2001. |
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Sicker patients - Safety and
Efficacy of an In-Hospital Exercise Training Program in a Patient
Cohort with Documented Myocardial Ischemia |
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Largest published experience in community
based rehabilitation center - Leibowitz M, Bental T,
et al. Coronary Risk Factor Management in the Framework of a
Community Hospital-Based Ambulatory Exercise Training Program.
Prev Cardiol. 2004;7:59-63 |
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| 4. Improving Patient Compliance |
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4C - Computerized Community Cardiovascular Control Presented
at over 30 local and international conferences
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| 5. Childhood Obesity |
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A combined dietary-physical activity intervention affects
bone strength in obese children and adolescents. Published in
the International Journal of Sports Medicine (vol 27(8):666-71)
August 2006 |
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Reduced exercise-associated response of the GH-IGF-I axis
and catecholamines in obese children and adolescents. Published
in the Journal of Applied Physiology (vol 100(5):1630-7) May
2006. |
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Short- and long-term beneficial effects of a combined dietary-behavioral-physical
activity intervention for the treatment of childhood obesity.
Published in Pediatrics (vol 115(4):e443-9) April 2005. |
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Physical Education in Israeli Middle-Schools – A Time
for Action! Accepted for publication in Harefuah 2006. |
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Parental Obesity and Higher Pre-intervention BMI Reduce the
Likelihood of a Multidisciplinary Childhood Obesity Program
to Succeed - A Clinical Observation. Published in Journal of
Pediatric Endocrinology & Metabolism (17, 1055-1061, 2004).
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Short- and Long-Term Beneficial Effects of a Combined Dietary-Behavioral-Physical
Activity Intervention for the Treatment of Childhood Obesity.
Published in Pediatrics (Vol. 115, No. 4, April 2005). |
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Partners for Recovery: The empowered wife of the patient in
the cardiac rehabilitation clinic |
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Personality for Recovery: Distress among cardiac patients
joining the cardiac rehabilitation program, as measured by clinical
interviews |
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Orthopedic Limitations in Cardiac Rehabilitation: The Effect
of Abnormal Joint Mobility on Progress in Cardiac Rehabilitation |
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Healthy Homes: Healthy Families: An intervention for obese
children with obese parents |
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Start Early, Start Healthy: An intervention for
kindergarten children (Supported by the Carlos Lindenfeld Memorial
Fund) |
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ACCESS: Cardiac Rehabilitation in the Community |
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Childhood Obesity and Insulin Resistance |
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Childhood Obesity and Hypertension |
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INSIGHT: A culturally-sensitive lifestyle intervention program
for Arab women at-risk for heart disease |
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