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

Dr. Michal Ilan
Clinical Manager

Dr. Sigal Gelkop
Biomarker Lab Manager

Tami Matus
Operations & HR manager

Yael Mayer Aharoni
Developmental Psychologist Expert

Shai Hershkoviz
Database Manager

Nadav Golden
Bioinformatics

Sarit Deutsch-Anaki
GCP Coordinator

Masha Shafransky
Developmental Psychologist Expert

Keren Mayer Lapidus
Developmental Psychologist Expert

Tobi Graucher
Developmental Psychologist Intern

Yuval Melamed
Speech therapist

Inbal Ariel
Developmental Psychologist Intern

Anna Kanarev
Developmental Psychologist Intern

Vered Mizrahi
Speech and Language Therapist

Danel Waissengreen
Speech and Language Therapist

Tamar Gassner Dattelkramer
Speech and Language Therapist

Liat Moyal
Clinical Researchers Coordinator

Hila Levi
Lab Assistant

Inbar Oren
Clinical Researchers Coordinator

Meira Argaman
Clinical Researchers Coordinator - Shamir Medical Center (Assaf Harofeh)

Shaked Mashiach
Clinical Researchers Coordinator

Amit Lavi
Clinical Researchers Coordinator

Adi Taub
Clinical Researchers Coordinator - soroka medical center

Roie Dvir
Clinical Researchers Coordinator

Shir Rozenblat
Psychologist Intern

Tali Osipov
Operation Coordinator

Orel Mizrahi
Technical Coordinator