Dr. Michal Yackobovich Gavan

Dietician, Biostatistician, and Researcher.

Senior Lecturer, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at Tel Aviv University

I completed my bachelor's degree in nutrition sciences and a doctoral (PhD) degree in nutrition sciences (direct path) at the Robert H Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food, and Environment, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. I also completed my master's degree (M.Sc.) in biostatistics at the School of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Exact Sciences, at Tel Aviv University.

Currently, I am a dietician and researcher at the Jesse and Sara Lea Shafer Institute of Endocrinology and Diabetes at Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel. I am also a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at Tel Aviv University

My research focuses on the association between nutrition and a variety of topics in pediatric endocrinology, growth and obesity, diabetes, premature puberty, etc.

Yackobovitch-Gavan, M., Atia Shmueli, S., & Morag, I. (2023). Neurodevelopmental Outcomes Among Infants Born Preterm Fed With Mother's Own Milk: A Comparison of Singletons and Twins. The Journal of pediatrics, 259, 113484. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2023.113484

Yackobovitch-Gavan, M., Lazar, L., Demol, S., Mouler, M., Rachmiel, M., Hershkovitz, E., Shamir, R., Phillip, M., & Shvalb, N. F. (2023). The Effect of a Nutritional Supplement on Growth and Body Composition in Short and Lean Preadolescent Boys following One Year of Intervention. Hormone research in paediatrics, 96(3), 278–288. https://doi.org/10.1159/000526671

Fisch Shvalb, N., Lazar, L., Demol, S., Mouler, M., Rachmiel, M., Hershkovitz, E., Shamir, R., Phillip, M., & Yackobovitch-Gavan, M. (2022). Effect of a nutritional supplementation on growth and body composition in short and lean preadolescent boys: A randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992), 111(1), 141–150. https://doi.org/10.1111/apa.16054

Link to the full publication list in PubMed https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Yackobovitch+Gavan