Director of Ambulatory unit, Hematology division

Dr. Netanel (Nati) Horowitz was born in Haifa in 1970, graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the Technion in 1999. He completed his residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in Hematology during the years 2001-2008. He was a research fellow at the Hem/Onc division in Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center during 2008-2010. In 2010 he came back to Israel and appointed as a senior physician at the hematology institute, Rambam Health Care Campus. In 2013 he became an associate member of the CRIR – Clinical Research Institute at Rambam, and established his own research laboratory. Dr. Horowitz is a senior clinical lecturer at the Technion, faculty of Medicine.

Dr. Horowitz has received several prizes over the course of his career, including the Israel Cancer Association award for excellence residency in hematology in 2005 and the Dr. Alvin Hoffman Award and the Richard Klitzberg Fellowship for Oncology Study and Research Grant from the American Physician Fellowship for Medicine in Israel in 2008. He was elected as Grantee of Ofakim program for specialist physician in 2013.

In January 2014, Dr. Horowitz was appointed as the Head of the lymphoma service at the hematology division. Since 2015, he is the director of the Ambulatory unit at the hematology division.

In 2018, he was elected to be the head of the Israeli Lymphoma Study Group in the Israel Society of Hematology and Blood Transfusion.

His research and clinical interests range from the interaction of lymphoproliferative diseases with their associated microenvironment, as well as lymphoma in unique clinical scenario (i.e. pregnancy, elderly patients etc). He has authored 34 scientific publications and book chapters.