Name: Odeda Benin-Goren
Position: Director of the Center for Resuscitation, Emergency Medicine Education; Director of Emergency Nursing

Email: odedab@tasmc.health.gov.il 

Education:

 RN, BA, MPA, PhD
Certified Emergency Nurse 

Interests: 
Disaster preparedness, Medical emergencies, Trauma

Professional experience:
2006- Present: Senior Consultant to Edvice-Med on Disaster Preparedness
2004- Present: Director of Emergency Nursing
2000- Present: Director of the Center for Resuscitation, Emergency Medicine Education (CREME).
2000-2005- Supervising Nurse
2003-2005: Consultant to the Department of International Cooperation (MASHAV), at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) for medical projects.
2000-2002- Emergency nursing course coordinator, Shainburn Academic Nursing School
19991-2000:  Deputy Head Nurse of the Emergency Department at TASMC
1987-1990 I was a Public Health Nurse in the Tel-Aviv District, Ministry of Health / Staff Nurse in the ED, TASMC.
Health Nurse, in Tel-Aviv District, Ministry of Health1985-1987
1982-1985 Public Health Nurse, in Safed District
1976-1981- I was a Practical Nurse in the internal medicine department, at Sheba  Medical Center

Academic Experience:

2003: PhD Award- Fairfax University, Louisiana USA. (Emergency Medicine Management and Education).  PhD Dissertation: "The influences of the organizational change process on patients and staff in the emergency department, with the acknowledgment of emergency medicine as special medical profession in Israel". (Supervised by: Dr. Anthony Brand, from Fairfax University and Dr. Pinchas Halpern, from TASMC)
· Emergency Nurse Specialist - Israeli Ministry of Health-Diploma.  
1998: Trauma Nursing Course- Tel Aviv Medical Center and the Ministry of  
Health- Diploma.
1997-1999 Studied for the PhD at Kent University, UK, at the Center for Health 
Studies in the department of Social Policy and Social Work (Finished my 
PhD at Fairfax University). 
1977: Studied at the Medical Faculty of Tel Aviv University in the Department of    
Continuing Education in Emergency Medicine.
1996: M.P.A Award - Clark University, Massachusetts MA, USA. Capstone: The
Impact of the Reform of Health Services in Israel on Nursing Personnel.
· ACLS Instructor Diploma - on behalf of the Israeli Association for Emergency Medicine (IAEM) and the Medicine School of Massachusetts, USA.
1995: BA Award- in Health Services, at New England College, New Hampshire USA
· Graduated Humanitarian Medicine Course on behalf of the Medicine Faculty, Tel Aviv University, - Diploma.
1992: Graduated “Shachal”, Electrocardiograph Monitoring Course- Diploma.
1990: Graduated the Tel Aviv Sheinburn Academic Nursing School Registered Nurse- Diploma.
1983: Graduated Understanding and Treating Aging Problems Course at the Department of External Studies, Haifa University, Israel.- Diploma
1976: Graduated Practical Nursing School, at Rivka-Ziv Hospital, Safed- Diploma.

Publications:
2005:
Jan Cieckiewicza, et al, 2005, Secure Medicine in Mass Incidents, chapter 7, pp 45-51-Hospital Preparedness to observe injured of Mass Casualty Incident from Terror attack, Gornicki Wydawnictwo Medyczne, Wroclaw, 2005.
Charles N. Pozner, Tesfaye M. Bayleygne, Mark A. Davis, Odeda Benin-Goren, Vicki E. Noble, Pinchas Halpern. Emergency Medical Services Capacities in the Developing World: Preliminary Evaluation and Training in Addis Ababa,  Ethiopia
2003:
Prehospital Emergency Care, Volume 7, Number 3 / July-September 2003, pp 392 – 396, Taylor & Francis Health Sciences, part of the Taylor & Francis Group.
2000: Tesfaye MB, Hlpern P, Assefu W, Amir S, and Benin-Goren. Establishment of Emergency Services in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

11/2000 Annals of Emergency Medicine.

Publications:
2003: Assessment of the process of change from current ED organization to one based on the newly recognized specialty Emergency Medicine: Effects on medical and nursing work efficacy and on quality of patients- PhD Dissertation- Fairfax University, Louisiana USA.
· Emergency Medical Services Capacities in the Developing World: Preliminary evaluation and training in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Pre-hospital Emergency Care.
· Emergency Medicine in Israel young profession with lots of experience- Model of educational program, Israeli Journal of Emergency Nursing.
· Emergency Medicine in Israel: young profession with lots of experience- a model of education program, Israeli journal of emergency nursing.
2000:   First International Youth Services Model Conference Seminar: "Youth  Victims of Violence in ED, Multi Disciplinary Intervention Model".
1999:   ICN conference book: Emergency Department and Social Hospitalization for Homeless – Is It Necessary?
1996:  MPA Degree final work: “Capstone Project”, at Clark University- The impact  of the reform of health services in Israel on nursing personnel.

Participations and presentations:
2005: The 3rd Mediterranean Emergency Medicine conference, Nice, France
· Infrastructure of a Level One Trauma Center for Mega Mass Casualty Incident Due to Conventional and Non-Conventional Weapon: Preparedness for Sharing Drill among National Agencies.
· Civilian –Military Collaboration: Internalization of Management Mass Casualty Protocols.
2003 : The 2cd Mediterranean Emergency Medicine conference Sitges, Barcelona,  
Spain.
· Emergency Medicine in Israel- Update- The second Israeli Emergency Nurses Conference, Tel Aviv, Israel.
· Training Emergency Departments Team for Bio Terrorism- a National Project.
· Israeli-Polish cooperation in order to develop emergency Medicine in Poland.  
2002: Emergency Medicine Conference- Tel Aviv, Israel.  
· Universal protocol for patient’s transportation- Can it apply in the Israeli system? Embracing the future- RANO conference, Toronto Canada.
· International cooperation of the Center for Resuscitation and Emergency Medical Center in order to develop emergency Medicine Education in the world: Modern catastrophe- new challenge for emergency medicine, Dachau, Germany:
· Staff qualification for providing ventilation during toxicology event.
2000: European Congress on Trauma and Emergency Surgeons. Montecattini-Termi, Italy:
· Establishment of emergency medical services in Addis Ababa.
· The change in the perception of emergency medicine in Israel – Designing and organizing according to new Aspects.

1999: First International Youth Services Model Conference, Adelaide, Australia   
Young victims of violence in ED, A multi- disciplinary intervention model- ICN conference, London UK :
· Emergency department and social hospitalization for homeless, is it necessary?
1998:  Emergency Medicine Conference Jerusalem:
     Panel discussion about the  important of Triage in EM.             
1997:  Emergency Medicine Conference Jerusalem: 
Intervention of a multi- professional staff in the treatment of domestic violence victims.
1987: The International conference of Preventing Medicine, Jerusalem: Model for 
Medical Education among Ethiopian Immigrants on arrival to Israel.