Dr. Omer BAR-YOSEF is a neurologist, neuroscientist, and Israel’s leading expert in pediatric neurology and child development. She deals with the occurrence, diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the central and peripheral nervous system in children.
The main area of the doctor’s professional activity is the treatment of epilepsy in children of all ages. Doctor of Medicine (MD). Total clinical experience is about 20 years.
Omer Bar-Yosef received his medical degree, graduating from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He then trained and advanced his professional level in major neurological hospitals in Israel and Canada.
Today, Omer Bar-Yosef is a senior physician in the Department of Pediatric Neurology and the founder and director of the Prenatal Neurology Clinic, which treats children with various neurological disorders during pregnancy.
Dr. Bar-Yosef is a serious scientist. In addition to his daily busy clinical work, he pays great attention to scientific research. He was awarded the prize for the best research work in neurology from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Jerusalem. He has more than 20 scientific publications and about 200 speeches on the problems of pediatric neurology.
Additional specialization:
- Perinatal encephalopathy and other consequences of birth trauma (hyperexcitability, sleep and eating behavior disorders, muscle tone disorders, intracranial pressure regulation disorders, seizures, delayed psycho-verbal and motor development)
- Syncope and other paroxysmal conditions (loss of consciousness, seizures, panic attacks, vague epileptic syndromes)
- emotional and neurotic disorders (anxiety, tics, encopresis and enuresis, fears and compulsions, stuttering, eating disorders, etc.).
- Delayed psycho-verbal development and learning problems
- Behavioral disorders and communication difficulties (conflict, aggressiveness, hyperactivity, communication disorders)
- Sleep disorders (difficulty falling asleep, frequent waking, nightmares and fears, sleepwalking, etc.).