Research Areas:
Research Topics
- Energy
expenditure in hospitalized, elderly and critically ill patients. TICACOS study
international
- Fish oil use
in trauma patients, and in critically ill patients.
- Study of
membrane fatty acids. The lab has been specialized in fatty acid membrane
composition and has investigated the composition in various conditions, such as
cancer, trauma, geriatrics, psychiatry and healthy volunteers.
- Supplemental parenteral nutrition enriched in EPA and DHA
in critically ill patients.
- Use of
high protein enteral feeding with cycle ergometry for weaning patients from mechanical
ventilation.
- Basic
research on the roles of long chain PUFAs in neural development and
differentiation.
- Omega 3
supplementation and Psychometric outcome
Supervision of students
Medical Doctors: Elazar Moskovici: TICACOS International
study
Moran Helerman: Metabolic modifications during acute renal failure,
Validation of a portable
Fluorometer for rapid diagnosis of sepsis measuring CD 64