M E D I A A D V I S O R Y

Israeli Physician to Discuss Treatment of Mass Casualties
at UA Dept. of Emergency Medicine Grand Rounds, Sept. 24

Sept. 10, 2002
Katie Riley, 626-4828
EVENT: Treatment of Mass Casualties Following Terrorist Attacks in Haifa, Israel
UA Department of Emergency Medicine Grand Rounds presentation

DATE/TIME: Tuesday, Sept. 24, 10-11 a.m.

PLACE: Room 5403, University Medical Center, 1501 N. Campbell Ave.

CONTACT: Robin Killen, Arizona Emergency Medicine Research Center, 626-1836

COST: Free

EDITORS NOTE: Although this conference is geared for health-care professionals, the public and news media are invited to attend.

Michael Kafka, MD, professor and head of the Department of Emergency Medicine in the Bnai Zion Medical Center in Haifa, Israel, will discuss his experiences dealing with mass casualties following terrorist attacks in the Israeli city of Haifa as part of a Grand Rounds presentation of the UA Department of Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Kafka was born in Prague in 1948 and immigrated to Israel in 1949. He earned his medical degree at the Hebrew University Medical School and completed his internship at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem in 1973. He was mobilized into the Israel Navy the same year and served as the Navy's chief doctor between 1975 and 1977. He then completed his training in internal medicine at Haifa's Bnai Zion Medical Center, where he applied his combat experiences of mass casualty injuries to a civilian setting.

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