Graduate of medicine from the universities of Basel, Switzerland and John Hopkins, US. Graduate of Law, Tel Aviv University.
Residency in internal medicine at the Sheba Medical Center, Israel and at the New York University School of Medicine.
Fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the New York University School of Medicine.
Post doctoral training at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, and the Faculty of Medicine, Paris University VII, Hospital Bichat-Claude Bernard.
Professor of Medicine at the Tel Aviv University School of Medicine.
Head Infectious Diseases Unit, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Aviv University School of Medicine.
President - The International Society of Endocarditis and Endovascular Infections. (1996-1998).
Secretary General - International Society for Chemotherapy (1997-2001)
Author of 250 scientific articles, text books chapters, and monographs.