Nitza Goldberg-Cohen, MD Senior Physician

Dr. Nitza Goldberg-Cohen is the Director of the Ophthalmology Department, at Bnai Zion Medical Center.

Prof. Goldberg-Cohen graduated with honors from the Medical School at Tel Aviv University in 1991. She completed her residency in ophthalmology at Rabin Medical Center and graduated in 2001. At the same time, she completed a master's degree in health systems management at Tel Aviv University.After completing her residency in ophthalmology at the Linson Eye Department, she traveled to the United States, where she completed a post-graduate residency in neuro-ophthalmology at the Wilmer Eye Hospital affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and in her second year in pediatric ophthalmology and adult strabismus surgery.

She has received the Eldor-Machner Research Physician Fellowship from the Chief Scientist, a research fellowship from the See Association/Ministry of Health, and twice from the Israel Academy of Sciences. She received the prestigious Outstanding Researcher Award from the Institute for International Science Relations of the Faculty of Medicine. She also received research support from the American Association of Neuro-Ophthalmologists, an association she is a member of.

Currently, the research projects at Goldberg-Cohen Lab are:

• Neurodegenerative and neuroinflammatory disease: Non-invasive diagnosis of Alzheimer's biomarkers in the eye and brain.
• Genetics of the eye: Clinical and Molecular Characterization of Ocular Developmental Disorders: Microphthalmia, Anophthalmia, and Ocular Coloboma, in the Israeli Population.
• Microbiome of the eye: Comparative Analysis of the Ocular Microbiome in Patients with Ocular Prostheses.
• New treatment strategy: Investigating Teprotumumab as a Potential Medical Therapy for Pterygium.
• NanoGhost and Ocular Inflammation: Targeted NanoGhost Delivery in Ocular Inflammation Mouse Models.