Education:

B.A. (Studio Art)       1975 - 1979 University of Maryland, College Park, Md.

Ph.D. (Anatomy)         1980 - 1985  The George Washington University, Washington, D.C,(Suma cum laude)

Memberships in Professional/Scientific Societies:

1982 - 1992         American Association of Anatomists

1984 - present      Society for Neuroscience

1987 - present      Israel Society for Anatomical Sciences

1989 - 1994         New York Academy of Sciences

1992 - present      Israel Society for Neuroscience

2006 - present      International Society for Zinc Biology

2015                International Society for Neurovascular Disease