Dr.Aziz Darawsha has been appointed as the new head of the Hadassah Hospital Emergency Medicine Department in Israel. He will be replacing Dr. Yaacov Assaf, who is retiring after 18 years of service. Dr. Darawsha was born in an Arab village near Nazareth and is the oldest of eleven children. His father was a farmer who had completed four years of elementary school. His mother never learned to read or write. Three of his siblings are also doctors.
Dr. Darawsha has a masters degree from Ben -Gurion University of the Negev in health management systems. He studied medicine at the University of Sofia in Bulgaria, and specializes in cardiology, internal medicine and emergency medicine. Since 2010, Dr. Darawsha has been the chairman of the Israel Society for Urgent Medicine and has been an honorary member of the American College of Emergency Physicians since 2011. He has published more than 20 articles on emergency medicine in leading international medical journals
Previously, Dr. Darawsha has served as Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Emek Medical Center in Afula in Northern Israel.
Dr. Darawsha has four sons. One is a graduate of Hadassah’s medical school and is currently doing a fellowship in neurosurgery.
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