Leah Zullig, PhD, a health services researcher from DGIM, just returned from an exciting trip to Israel. While there, she and Avi Leader, MD, a hematologist from the Davidoff Cancer Center in Israel, jointly organized the first-ever Israeli conference on medication adherence in hematology and oncology.
The two-day event was held in Tel Aviv. Topics ranged from the growing pipeline of oral anticancer medications and the associated problems with medication non-adherence, to existing interventions known to improve adherence. Zullig and Leader presented key concepts from the field of implementation science. They focused on identifying synergies to improve adherence and the multidisciplinary opportunities to partner. Participants of the conference included nurses, physicians, and pharmacists from across Israel.
Pictured (left to right): Dr. Zullig, Avi Leader, MD (hematologist from Davidoff Cancer Center, Rabin Medical Center in Tel Aviv) and Eyal Schwartzberg, PhD, Director of the Department of Pharmacology at the Israel Ministry of Health.