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PERSONAL DETAILS
Full Name : Orly Halachmi- Eyal
E-mail: [email protected]
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2.
ACADEMIC DEGREES
(Year, Degree, Department, Institution, City and Country – in increasing chronological order)
M.D
Completed
2000
Medical School
Bruce Rappaport faculty of medicine, the Technion, Haifa.
2. ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
(Years, Rank or Position, Department, Institution - in decreasing chronological order)
3.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
(Years, Rank or Position, Employer - list of appointments outside academia in decreasing
chronological order)
Start/end dates
1/08/2012 – present
Institution/Hospital
The Emek Medical Centre, Afula, Israel
Position title
Specialist Staff member at the ophthalmology department,
responsible for Strabismus and Paediatric ophthalmology services,
premature infants, student's tutor and in charge of the residents.
Start/end dates
01/2012 – present
Institution/Hospital
Maccabi and Clalit Mushlam – Community health medical services
Position title
Consultations in Strabismus and Paediatric ophthalmology clinics
Start/end dates
02/2011 – 02/2012
Institution/Hospital
Position title
Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne Victoria.
Fellow in Ocular Motility
Start/end dates
Institution/Hospital
Position title
03/2012 – 07/2012
Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne Victoria.
Fellow in Pediatric Ophthalmology
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Start/end dates
Institution/Hospital
Position title
01/2008 - 12/2010
The Emek Medical Centre, Afula, Israel.
A staff specialist at the Ophthalmology Department
Start/end dates
Institution/Hospital
Position title
5/2007-1/2011
Zevulun health Care Centre, Kerayoth.
A specialist staff in the ophthalmology Department
Start/end dates
Institution/Hospital
Position title
8/2008-12/2010
Leumit- Health care service, Asaf health care center, Afula.
Independent clinical practice
Start/end dates
Institution/Hospital
Position title
6/2001-1/2008
The Emek Medical Centre, Afula
Residency
Start/end dates
Institution/Hospital
Position title
01/04/1999- 31/03/2000
Rambam Medical Centre, Haifa
Internship
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4.
1995-1997
RESEARCH INTERESTS
A preliminary Research-assistant (as an MD student) at the electrophysiology
Laboratory, The Technion, Haifa (by Prof. Ido Perlman and Ester Zemel).
Detection of NADPH-diaphorase and Nitric Oxide synthase (NOS) in rat retinas
by using histochemical reactions, in light and dark adaptation.
2003
Synapltic modulation of nitric oxide system in rat retina. By Zemel E, PhD &
Perlman I, PhD). This research was awarded and commended for Excellence by
the Academic Committee of The Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Haifa,
1999.
A lecture, given at The Israel Society for Vision & Eye Research (ISVER 2002),
was honored for The Best Lecture given by a Young Researcher at that
conference.
2005-2007
A clinical prospective double blind placebo controlled study, that was
conducted together with Microbiology laboratory, between the years 20052007 on elective patients that are due to have an intraocular elective
surgery in the ophthalmology department, The Emek Medical Center. We
looked at cultures taken from the conjunctival sac post preventive topical
treatments installed.
5. TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Courses:
Years taught, Title, level [graduate or undergraduate]
Programs: Years, Title, level [graduate or undergraduate]
11/2012
Being the tutor of a group of 6th year students from the Technion, Haifa.
01/2013
Giving talks on: anatomy and physiology of the eye, traumatic eye, and
examining patients in the clinic, before a group of 6th year students from the
Technion, Haifa.
03/2013
Giving talks on: anatomy and physiology of the eye, traumatic eye, and
examining patients in the clinic, before a group of 6th year students from the
Technion, Haifa.
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6. TECHNION ACTIVITIES
(Years, activity – list Technion, not departmental, committees or administrative positions)
1995-1997
A preliminary Research-assistant (as an MD student) at the electrophysiology
Laboratory, The Technion, Haifa (by Prof. Ido Perlman and Ester Zemel).
7. DEPARTMENTAL ACTIVITIES
(Years, activity)
Consultations in Strabismus and Pediatric ophthalmology clinics including strabismus and and
other pediatric operations; ROP clinic; perform cataract surgeries, rural-community similar
service once a week, emergency on call, ward round, registrars and students tutoring in clinic
and operating theatre, research work and journal clubs presentations.
8. PUBLIC PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
(Years, activity) - list of public professional committees in the hospital, in your professional
Union, National and International, editorial responsibilities, editorial boards, etc.
9. MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
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INTERNATIONAL
Date From/To
2010
2007 - 2008
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Organization
European association for vision and eye research (EVER)
The American Academy of Ophthalmology
NATIONAL
Date From/To
2000 - Current
2001 - Current
Organization
The Israel Medical Association (IMA)
The Association of the ophthalmologists in Israel
10. HONORS
(Year, Honor - list of prizes, awards or important nominations)
11. GRADUATE STUDENTS
PhD AND MSC
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List separately completed theses and theses in progress.
(Year of graduation or expected graduation, name of student, Degree, title of research, name of
primary supervisor, names of additional supervisors, publications the student co-author – refer to
your list of publications).
(Do not list names of students for whom you were only an advisor or a substitute supervisor for
less than an academic year).
(If student is co-author on scientific publication/s, refer in parenthesis the publication/s number/s
from your list of publications)
MD Theses
(Same as for MSc/PhD students).
MD
In progress
2013
Mahmud Daher, MD., Risk factors for complications in children with Preseptal
and Orbital Cellulitis (Prof. Dan Miron and Dr, Daniel Briscoe Co Supervisors)
Basic Science
(Year of project, name of resident, title of research)
12. RESEARCH GRANTS
(Year, granting agency, total amount, title of grant, names of principal investigators and co
investigators). Do no list internal grants (Technion or hospital sources).
13. SIGNIFICANT PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS
(Year, project title, professional framework or institution, names of project managers - this list
should not include information which appears elsewhere in the resume)
Synaptic modulation of nitric oxide system in rat retina. Required M.D student research
project, by Zemel E, PhD & Perlman I, PhD. This research was awarded and
commended for Excellence by the Academic Committee of The Bruce Rappaport Faculty
of Medicine, Haifa, 1999.
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14. PUBLICATIONS
(note: all publications should appear in increasing order)
a. Zemel E, Eyal O, Lei B, Perlman I. NADPH diaphorase activity in mammalian
retinas is modulated by the state of visual adaptation. Vis.Neurosci. 1996,SepOct;13(5):863-71.
b. Halachmi-Eyal O, Lang Y, Keness Y, Miron D. Preoperative topical Moxifloxacin
0.5% and Povidone Iodine 5% versus Povidone Iodine 5% alone for the reduction of
bacterial colonization in the conjunctival sac. A prospective double blind placebo
controlled study. J of Cataract & Refractive Surg 2009; Vol 35, 12, Dec 2009,
2109-2114.
c. Halachmi-Eyal O, Keness Y, Lang Y, Briscoe D and Miron D. Risk Factors for
Conjunctival Microorganism Colonization in Adults Undergoing Intraocular
Surgery. OJO 2012. Vol. 2, 2, 26-30.
d. Halachmi-Eyal O, Kowal L. Assessing abnormal head posture: a new paradigm.
Curr opin ophthalmol 2013. Sep;24(5):432-7
e. Halachmi-Eyal O, Briscoe D. The treatment of Botox in thyroid related
orbitopathy - The Emek academic paper. Sept. 2013
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I was honored to review a manuscript: “Tolerability and safety profile of Povidone
Iodine in pre-operative skin and eye disinfection prior to intraocular surgery”.
Number CLINICALGROUP-10-117, 2010.
Theses
Refereed papers in professional journals:
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Basic research (Hypothesis-driven)
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Clinical Descriptive Research
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Case Reports
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Review papers (Same details as for regular refereed papers)
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Books and book chapters (List all co-authors in the order they appear
in the book, Editors, title of book, publisher, number of pages, and year)
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Letters to the Editor
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Others
Published papers (include all co-authors in the order they appear on the
paper, title of paper, journal, year, volume, first and last pages)
Accepted or papers in press - state name of journal
Submitted papers (same as published papers with available details)
(Do not list in this section papers published in conference proceedings, even if refereed).
(Do not list papers papers in preparation).
Patents
(Year, list of all investigators, title, status of patent)
Research reports
(Do not list reports which are published as papers)
Other publications (letters, editorials, commentaries, etc.)
15. CONFERENCES (do not list regular seminar talks)
Plenary, keynote or invited talks
National:
Talks that I presented at the Israeli Ophthalmologic Society Conference:
 Pneumatic Displacement of Submacular Hemorrhage. Halachmi O, Lang Y. 2003.
 Epidemiology, prognostic factors and outcome of perforating injuries admitted to our
hospital in 10 years between years 1990-1999. Halachmi O, Lang Y. 2005.
 Abducent paresis and aneurysm of the internal carotid artery, Halachmi O, Lang Y. 2006.
 Anterior segment ocular manifestation and systemic malformations in members of one
family related to deletion in PAX6 gene. Halachmi O, Lang Y. 2006
 Pseudoexotropia and dragged macula: A case report, 2009.
 Preoperative topical Moxifloxacin 0.5% and Povidone Iodine 5% versus Povidone Iodine
5% alone for the reduction of bacterial colonization in the conjunctival sac. HalachmiEyal O, Lang Y, Keness Y, Miron D. I gave a talk at the ISVER, Jerusalem, March
2007.
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 Prevalence and risk factors for conjunctival bacterial colonization in adult patients
undergoing elective intraocular surgery. Halachmi O, Lang Y, Keness Y, Miron D.
Presented: as a lecture at the ISVER March 2010.
 Risk Factors for Conjunctival Microorganism Colonization in Adults Undergoing
Intraocular. Halachmi-Eyal O, Keness Y, Lang Y & Miron D. A talk at the Congress of
Research and Researches, the Emek, March 2010.
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Synaptic modulation of nitric oxide system in rat retina. Halachmi O, Zemel E, Perlman
I. I presented a lecture at The Israel Society for Vision & Eye Research (ISVER) 2002.
This lecture has been honored for the Best Lecture given by a Young Researcher at
that conference.
International (talks that were given by me):
 Preoperative topical Moxifloxacin 0.5% and Povidone Iodine 5% versus Povidone Iodine
5% alone for the reduction of bacterial colonization in the conjunctival sac. HalachmiEyal O, Lang Y, Keness Y, Miron D. I gave a talk at the American Academy
Ophthalmology Plenum in New-Orleans, November 2007 and at the AJMF conference
in Feb 2011, San Remo, Victoria.
 Problems with superior rectus recession. Halachmi O, Kowal L. I gave a talk at the
RANZCO Squint Club Auckland. March 2012.
Posters:
 Synaptic modulation of nitric oxide system in rat retina. Halachmi O, Zemel E, Perlman I.
A poster at the International Eye and Vision Research Society, Geneva, Switzerland,
2003.
 Prevalence and risk factors for conjunctival bacterial colonization in adult patients
undergoing elective intraocular surgery. Halachmi O, Lang Y, Keness Y, Miron D.
Presented as a poster at the EVER- in Crete October. 2010.
 Systematic approach to the patient with abnormal head posture. Halachmi O, Briscoe D,
Kowal L. Poster at the Congress of Research and Researches, the Emek, March 2013.
(Conference title, location, date)
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International
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National
Contributed Talks and Abstracts
(list of authors (underlie the presenter), title of talk, Conference title, location, date, oral or
poster presentation)
Refereed papers in conference proceedings
(Include all co-authors in the order they appear on the paper, title of paper, title of publication,
publisher, first and last pages, and year; do not list abstracts)
Other conference contributions (non-refereed papers, posters; indicate all co-authors in the order
in which they appear, title of contribution, title of conference, date, location.)
Participation in organizing conferences
(Conference title, location, date, organizational function)
Paediatric ophthalmology conference – October 19th 2012 RCH
RANZCO Victoria State Branch meeting, Alfred’s hospital, Melbourne. - 17th March 2012
The Squint club and Ret-Cam wet lab, Auckland, March 2012
Participate in the AAPOS – Sydney April 2011
the AJMF conference in San Remo, Victoria Feb 2011
The EVER Crete, Oct 2010
ISVER, March 2010
American Academy Ophthalmology Plenum in New-Orleans, Nov 2007
ISVER March 2002
16. SPECIAL PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
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