Prof. Eliyahu Mizrahi

Prof. Mizrahi received a Doctor of Medicine degree )M.D.( from the Faculty of Medicine, Technology Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel. He then specialized in geriatric medicine at the Rambam General Hospital and at the Flieman Medical and Rehabilitation Center in Haifa. Mizrahi received his advanced training with a Fellowship in neurogeriatrics at the Department of Neurology of the Scholl of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland. He was then head of the Department of Geriatrics and Medicine at the Chaim Sheba Medical Center. In 2012, he became head of the Department of Geriatrics and Medicine at ShmuelHarofe, Geriatric and Rehabilitation Hospital in Beer-Yaakov, affiliated to the School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University. From 2018 to 2022, Mizrahi was the CEO of the Geriatric and Medical Center “Shmuel-Harofe” in Beer-Yaakov.

Prof. Mizrahi’s research deals with identifying risk factors for cognitive decline in patients aged 65 and over. His research works to identify independent predictive factors that may predict the success of rehabilitation in patients after surgery to fix a fracture in the femoral head joint, ischemic stroke, and patients who experienced a significant functional decline after prolonged hospitalization. He also tests the effect of various infectious agents such as Covid-19 and Clostridium Difficile in geriatric hospitals and antibiotic resistance in the elderly patient population who are hospitalized in geriatric hospitals.

Prof .Mizrahi develops analytical methodologies that would be able to perform diagnostic evaluation of several diseases at once by individual or combined evaluation parameters and selects the most informative parameters or parameter combinations. He also works on a methodology to provide a measurement and definition, the effects of individual or combined diagnostic parameters and therapeutic interventions on multimorbidity using information theoretical measure of normalized mutual information.