Deborah Rubin-Asher, M.D
Education: Hadassah Medical school, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel. M.D. 2000.
Specialty: physical medicine and rehabilitation (2006)
Professional Appointments:
1999-2000 Intern, Soroka hospital, Ber-Seva, Israel.
2001- 09/2006 Resident in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Department of Neurological Rehabilitation, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
10/2006- 6/2008 Senior physician in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Department of Neurological Rehabilitation, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
7/2008-6/2010 Clinical Fellow, Acquired Brain Injury program, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Toronto, Canada
7/2010-7/2012 Head of the Outpatient Brain Injury Rehabilitation program, Rehabilitation Centre, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
11/2012 – 10/2014 Southern district Physiatrist, Maccabi Medical Services.
11/2014-02/2016 Director of the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit, Alyn Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.
03/2016-present Director of the Brain Rehabilitation Department, Loewenstin Rehabilitation Hospital, Raanana, Israel.
Academic appointements:
2002 –2012 Instructor in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
List of publications:
Cognitive Dysfunction: Part and Parcel of the Diabetic Foot
Natovich R, Kushnir T, Harman-Boehm I, Margalit D, Siev-Ner I, Tsalichin D, Volkov I, Giveon S, Rubin-Asher D, Cukierman-Yaffe T.
Diabetes Care. 2016 Jul;39(7):1202-7.
The nature and course of sensory changes following spinal cord injury: predictive properties and implications on the mechanism of central pain. Zeilig G, Enosh S, Leher B, Rubin-Asher D, Defrin R. Brain, 2011
Civilian spinal cord injuries due to terror explosions. Zeilig G, Weingarden HP, Zwecker M, Rubin-Asher D, Ratner A, Ohry A. Spinal Cord. 2010 Nov;48(11):814-8. Epub 2010 Mar 23.
Risk factors for failure of heparin thromboprophylaxis in patients with acute traumatic spinal cord injury. Rubin-Asher D, Zeilig G, Ratner A, Asher I, Zivelin A, Seligsohn U, Lubetsky A. Thromb Res. 2010 Jun;125(6):501-4. Epub 2009 Oct 23.
Dermatological findings following acute traumatic spinal cord injury. Rubin-Asher D, Zeilig G, Klieger M, Adunsky A, Weingarden H. Spinal Cord. 2005 Mar;43(3):175-8.