Center Staff
The research staff carry out all of the research activities at the center. This includes recruiting families to a variety of ongoing studies, collecting a wide range of data from both children and parents, and organizing the data in a state-of-the-art database while ensuring patient confidentiality. The research staff are integrated in the daily clinical activities of the Preschool Psychiatry Unit and Child Development Institute in Soroka Medical Center.
This enables them to meet families during their initial autism diagnosis meetings and later annual follow ups, thereby facilitating family recruitment and data collection. A special emphasis is made to collect the vast majority of research data (e.g., parent questionnaires, saliva samples, eye tracking) during or right after the clinical visits. In addition, all children who are suspected of having autism, participate in an ADOS test that is administered by our speech therapists in the center's facilities.

David Zvida
CEO

Tami Matus
Director of Operations and Human Resources

Michal Ilan
Head of clinical staff

Rimon Tubin
Director of the national DB project

Noa Arava
Manager of genetic domain

Sigal Gelkop
Manager of biomarkers lab

Sarit Deutsch-Anaki
research assistant

Inbar Avni
Research assistant

Danel Waissengreen
Speech therapist

Adi Tomer
Developmental Psychologist

Alona Molcho-Haimovich
Behavior analyst

Tanya Nitzan
Speech therapist

Tamar Gassner
Speech therapist

Micha Hacohen
Psychologist

Rotem Saban
Research assistant

Liora Manelis
Research assistant

Shaked Mashiach
Research assistant

Noy Mor
Research assistant

Liat Moyal
Research assistant

Gaya Aran
Research assistant