"Global Connections: Merging Industries around the World"
Host: Peter Riguardi, President of Jones Lang LaSalle and the American Friends of Rabin Medical Center, with Silverstein Properties
Thursday, April 18th from 8:30am-10:00am
American Friends of Rabin Medical Center in partnership with the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (including Bellevue Hospital and Metropolitan Hospital) presents an exclusive breakfast series, "Global Connections: Merging Industries around the World" . The event will welcome CEO's and business leaders from various sectors to engage in high level networking and listen to a renowned business leader speak on the current need for the exchange of industry specific knowledge in today's current domestic and global economic and political affairs.
The event will fund the International Rabin Fellow Exchange Program with a New York City Hospital.
Seventy year-old Gershon Gefen was not thinking about a trans-Atlantic flight to the United States when in mid-2008, doctors in the Cardiothoracic Surgery Department of Rabin Medical Center, transplanted Heart Mate II, a permanent left ventricle assist device.
Volunteer delegation of Israeli medical professionals travel to Kyrgyzstan to treat patients, many of them blind for many years • "Many remain blind only because the doctors in their country don't have the means to treat them," says delegation director.
Although Rabin Medical
Center has become a
unique and modern facility, it
has never been far from its
Zionist roots.