Dr. Soroker, who received the award on behalf of the late Professor Haim Ring, was for about 22 years the director of the Department of Neurological Rehabilitation B. B. Bloinstein and after his retirement serves as the head of teaching and academic development in this department that deals with rehabilitation after a stroke
Published on: 11.12.22 08:15
Dr. Nachum Soroker from the Levinstein Rehabilitation Medical Center received the Lifetime Achievement Award for the late Prof. Haim Ring. This was as part of the 72nd annual conference of the Israel Association for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. The Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Dr. Soroker at the closing session of insert Dr. Soroker served for about 22 years as the director of the Department of Neurological Rehabilitation B. B. in Leuenstein and after his retirement he is currently in charge of teaching and academic development and director of the research laboratory in this department.
The award named after Prof. Haim Ring is given to leading rehabilitation professionals, whose contribution to the field was invaluable, and is awarded by members of the Ring family – his wife Iran and the children. Prof. Haim Ring served as the director of the Department of Neurological Rehabilitation III at the Levinstein Rehabilitation Medical Center and was one of the pillars of rehabilitation medicine in Israel and around the world. He previously headed the Rehabilitation Association in Israel, founded the Mediterranean Rehabilitation Organization and in 2002 was elected the second president of the World Rehabilitation Association (ISPRM) and brought many achievements. The late Professor Ring died prematurely in 2008 from a critical illness.
Nahum Soroker was born in Argentina and immigrated to Israel with his parents when he was 4 years old. The family lived in the courtyard of the Emek Medical Center in Afula where his father worked as an anesthesiologist and his mother as a pediatrician. Later they moved to Kfar Saba and his father served as a senior physician in the anesthesia department at the Meir Medical Center. At the age of 18, he began studying at the School of Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as an adjutant and in 1983, upon completion of his military service as a doctor, he began his residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Levinstein Rehabilitation Medical Center. In 1991 he became the deputy director of the department and in 1998 he was appointed director of the department and served in this position until his retirement in 2019.
Over the years he held many positions in Leuenstein – member of various committees, chairman of the doctors’ committee, chairman of the specialization committee. Outside of Levinstein, he worked to promote the field of rehabilitation in Israel as the head of a continuing education course on behalf of Tel Aviv University for specialists in rehabilitation medicine, as the chairman of the Israeli Association for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, as a member of the National Rehabilitation Council and as the head of the Department of Rehabilitation at Tel Aviv University.
Already during his internship, Dr. Soroker began to engage in research on issues related to the cerebral organization of behavior, and how damage to different areas of the brain affects motor, cognitive, linguistic, and emotional functions. for students in neuroscience, psychology, physical therapy, communication disorders and occupational therapy. He has and continues to have collaborations with researchers from many institutions in the world and in Israel. His research work has so far produced over 100 publications in the scientific press and is characterized by a constant attempt to collaborate with researchers from different and varied fields.
The goal that Dr. Soroker consistently strived for was to find ways of better quality rehabilitation for patients who had a stroke. His main area of interest for many years was side neglect syndrome – a condition that has serious consequences for the results of rehabilitation and the chance of functional recovery from a stroke, which is based on attention deficit Spatial and in the spatial representation of objects, when prominent events and objects on the opposite side of the damaged brain do not evoke a verbal or motor response that can indicate the arrival of the information into consciousness. In recent years, the focus of Dr. Soroker’s interest is in deepening the understanding of the brain organization of movement and posture. This comes with the search for new ways to influence brain plasticity, in order to achieve as much improvement as possible in the motor function of patients who have had a stroke. For this purpose, Dr. Soroker Bleinstein established a sophisticated research laboratory, which he currently heads.
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