Yehuda Shoenfeld

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Yehuda Shoenfeld

Yehuda Shoenfeld (born  February 14, 1948 in Slovakia ) is an Israeli doctor and immunologist . Since 1989 he has headed the Medical Clinic B and the Center for Autoimmune Diseases at the Sheba Medical Center of Tel Aviv University , where he has also held a chair in research on autoimmune diseases since 2003 . He is the author or editor of several standard works on the subject of autoimmunity.

Life

Shoenfeld studied medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1965 to 1972 and then qualified as a specialist in internal medicine . From 1974 to 1979 he worked at the Section for Clinical Immunology of the Beilinson Medical Center in Petach Tikwa , and between 1978 and 1980 he worked at various universities in the United States in the field of oncology and hematology within the framework of several-month scholarships .

In 1985 he became director of the Medical Clinic D and the clinic for clinical immunology and allergy at the Soroka Medical Center in Be'er Sheva and Director of the Research Laboratory for autoimmune diseases, a joint facility of the Soroka Medical Center and the resident also in Beersheba Ben-Gurion -University of the Negev , where he was also appointed associate professor. Four years later he took over the management of the Medical Clinic B and the Center for Autoimmune Diseases at the Sheba Medical Center of Tel Aviv University , at whose medical faculty he became a full professor a year later and has also held a chair for research on autoimmune diseases since 2003.

Shoenfeld is co-editor of various specialist journals and has received a number of academic honors and scientific prizes for his research activities. He is the founder and chief scientific adviser of the Israeli Lupus Society and since 1992 chief advisor for immunology of the medical service of the Israeli Armed Forces . In the course of his career, he has written around 1,300 scientific publications and more than 100 book chapters and published ten books as an editor or author.

Shoenfeld postulates the so-called autoimmune / inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants (ASIA for short), under which various autoimmune diseases after vaccinations are summarized. However, it is a purely hypothetical concept, as the phenomenon could neither be reproducibly proven in studies nor a causal relationship confirmed. Shoenfeld appears more and more frequently in the anti-vaccination scene, for example he was a scientific advisory board member of the American organization “Children's Medical Safety Research Institute” (CSMRI). The founder of the CSMRI, Claire Dwoskin, is one of the extreme opponents of vaccination. In May 2019 he appeared as one of three special speakers at the symposium of the anti-vaccination organization "AutismOne". AutismOne is an annual conference that promotes pseudoscientific and false beliefs about autism.

Shoenfeld is married and has three children.

Works (selection)

  • Cancer and Autoimmunity. Amsterdam and New York 2000
  • Atherosclerosis and Autoimmunity. Amsterdam and New York 2001
  • Infection and Autoimmunity. Amsterdam and Boston 2004
  • Autoimmune Diseases and Treatment: Organ-specific and Systemic Disorders. New York 2005
  • Autoantibodies. Amsterdam and Boston 2007
  • Diagnostic Criteria in Autoimmune Diseases. Totowa 2008
  • ed. with Nancy Agmon-Levin and Lucija Tomljenovic: Vaccines and autoimmunity. Hoboken 2015

Web links

Commons : Yehuda Shoenfeld  - collection of images, videos and audio files


Individual evidence

  1. ^ Yehuda Shoenfeld and Nancy Agmon-Levin: 'ASIA' - autoimmune / inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants . In: Journal of Autoimmunity . tape 36 , no. 1 , February 2011, p. 4–8 , doi : 10.1016 / j.jaut.2010.07.003 , PMID 20708902 .
  2. ↑ David Hawkes et al .: Revisiting adverse reactions to vaccines: A critical appraisal of Autoimmune Syndrome Induced by Adjuvants (ASIA) . In: Journal of Autoimmunity . tape 59 , May 2015, p. 77-84 , doi : 10.1016 / j.jaut.2015.02.005 , PMID 25794485 .
  3. ↑ Rohan Ameratunga et al .: Evidence Refuting the Existence of autoimmune / autoinflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants (ASIA) . In: The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice . tape 5 , no. 6 , November 1, 2017, p. 1551–1555.e1 , doi : 10.1016 / j.jaip.2017.06.033 .
  4. ↑ F. Zepp: Impfmythen in pediatrics . In: Monthly Pediatrics . tape 166 , no. December 12 , 2018, p. 1114–1119 , doi : 10.1007 / s00112-018-0610-3 .
  5. ↑ Kai Kupferschmidt: Top Israeli immunologist accused of promoting antivaccine views. Science , November 6, 2019, accessed January 30, 2020 .
  6. ^ A b Hinnerk Feldwisch-Drentrup: Documentary "Inoculated": Anti-vaccination lobbying instead of education . In: The time . September 11, 2018, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed January 30, 2020]).
  7. ^ David Gorski: Autism One: The yearly antivaccine autism “biomed” quackfest begins. Science-Based Medicine , May 24, 2010, accessed January 30, 2020 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Shoenfeld, Yehuda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli doctor and immunologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Slovakia