David Lichtstein
Physiologists
David Lichtstein (Hebrew: דוד ליכטשטיין) is a full professor of physiology at the Faculty of Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the incumbent of the Walter & Greta Stiel Chair in Heart Studies. He is the former chairman of the Institute For Medical Research, Israel-Canada (IMRIC) (2008–2012) and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2013–2017).
Life and career
Lichtstein was born in Łódź, Poland in 1949. He immigrated to Israel with his family in 1957. He was awarded a B.Sc. in Physiology and Zoology in 1970, followed by an M.Sc. in physiology in 1972 and a Ph.D. in physiology in 1977 all from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Lichtstein chose medical sciences as a career because of the opportunity to combine science and contribute to human welfare. His Ph.D. research, under the supervision of Prof. J. Dobkin and Prof.
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