Orit Reish

Prof. Reish is a medical Doctor, who was born in Israel. She received her M.D. degree from the Medical School of Ben Gurion University, Israel. Subsequently, she completed her pediatric residency at the Hasharon-Beilinson campus. She practiced as a senior physician in the Neonatal Intensive care unit at Sneider Medical Center. She subsequently embarked on a Medical Genetics fellowship at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA, and since then has been an American Board Certified in Medical Genetics, and a Fellow at the American College of Medical Genetics. She received several honorable prizes for her research on genetic metabolic diseases throughout her fellowship. Upon her return back to Israel, she served as a senior medical geneticist at Meir Medical center and was promoted to a directory position. She subsequently was nominated to head the Medical Genetics Institute at Shamir Medical Center (previously - Assaf Harofe) and continues to hold this position: The institute under her direction contains a medical team- 4 MD geneticists, 7 genetic counselors and 2 genetic nurses. Laboratories consist of a Cytomolecular section, performing prenatal and postnatal tests, including Chromosomal microarray, FISH, and embarking on Optical Genomic Mapping. The Molecular laboratory is involved in variable pre and post-natal molecular diagnostic tests including MLPA, sanger sequencing, deep sequencing, and bioinformatic analyses for exomes and genetic pannels. Prof Reish is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Human Molecular Genetics, who is enrolled on the academic track, at the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel. She was a visiting Professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Prof Reish is heavily involved in teaching students, residents, and fellows and directing MSc and Ph.D. theses. Prof Reish had published more than 80 peers reviewed Original papers, in high-ranked international journals. She is involved in the detection of 8 new genes. Her main interests are Bioinformatic interpretation, genotype phenotype correlation of genetic diseases, and development and implementation of new technologies.