Glossary

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Lihi Bar-Lev Schleider

M.A. in Psychobiology, Ph.D. student in Epidemiology at Soroka University Medical Center Clinical Research Center, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of Negev.

Head of the Research and Development Department of Tikun Olam Cannbit Pharmaceuticals Ltd. Israel

Ms. Bar-Lev Schleider founded the research department of , which she has headed ever since. Over the past 15 years, she has dedicated herself to the task of evaluating the safety and efficacy of certain cannabis preparations for various diseases in cooperation with hospitals and physicians. Ms. Bar-Lev Schleider has contributed to 17 publications in medical journals and is currently involved in other clinical trials, including randomized controlled trials.

Dr. Silviu Brill

Director, Institute of Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Tel Aviv Medical Centre
Co-Founder and Director of "BioMed@TAU Research Hub"
Executive Member of the Board of Directors of the "Israeli Pain Association"
...and more

Dr. Brill is an expert in anesthesiology and pain management. His focus is on neuromodulation and the psychological aspects of chronic pain, post-surgical pain and therapy with medical cannabis. He is director of the Institute of Pain Medicine at Tel Aviv Medical Center, co-founder and director of the BioMed@TAU Research Hub, actively participates in various committees as well as professional societies and has published numerous papers during his career.

Dr. Bernd Grünberg

Pharmacist, specialist pharmacist for drug information, prevention and health promotion

Dr. Bernd Grünberg is the owner of three pharmacies in Munich, Erding and Ebersberg. He has been caring for cannabis patients since 2015. With his team of the APOTHEKE FORUM SCHWANTHALERHÖHE in Munich, he provides more than 100 patients per month with cannabis flowers, extracts and sprays. Further dosage forms are in development with this pharmacy.

Dr. med. Wolfram Landmann

Specialist in Internal Medicine with further training authorization for internal medicine

The team of the group practice in family medicine, founded in 1993, covers a wide variety of specialties: In addition to internal medicine and caring for families, these include general medicine, nutritional and travel medicine. In addition, the group practice is a state-certified yellow fever vaccination center.

Dr. Timna Naftali

Deputy Head of the Institute of Gastroenterology, Kefar Saba, Meir General Hospital, Israel

Dr. Naftali is an expert in the field of gastroenterology. Her current focus includes research on the relationship between cannabis-2 receptors and muscosal healing potential in Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBD) and the use of medical cannabis in Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. She has published more than 50 publications in her career.

Prof. Dr. med. Mathias Schmid

Specialist in Internal Medicine, additional qualification in hematology and oncology
Chief Physician in Medical Oncology and Hematology at Stadtspital Triemli

The Stadtspital Zurich is a state-of-the-art central hospital with two locations in the city of Zurich with a superregional catchment area and national recognition in Switzerland. It maintains numerous internal and external cooperations. Internally, numerous specialist areas cooperate across disciplines (expert boards, interdisciplinary consultation hours). Externally, Stadtspital Triemli works in a network with partner hospitals, aftercare institutions and physicians in private practice.

Prof. Dr. med. Stephan Schmitz

Specialist in Internal Medicine, Hematology and Oncology. Physician for Palliative Medicine

The MVZ (Medical Care Center) was founded in 1977 as a group practice for hematology and oncology by PD Dr. S. Schmitz and Dr. H. T. Steinmetz. Currently, the MVZ offers the following types of care: Internal medicine with a focus on hematology and oncology as well as an additional qualification in palliative medicine and blood transfusion. Since its foundation, the practice has participated in scientific studies and at the same time established its own study center, with which the MVZ today participates in national and international studies and carries out its own studies and projects.

Dr. med. Volker Sepeur

Specialist in Neurology
Physician in Charge of the Epilepsy Center at the Christian Hospital Unna West

The Epilepsy Center at the Christian Hospital Unna West specializes in the treatment of people with epilepsy and (multiple) disabilities. Every year, the Epilepsy Center treats over 650 outpatients and over 300 inpatients and has been a certified epilepsy center for adolescents and adults of the DGfE (German Society for Epileptology) since 2020. As the fifth center in North Rhine-Westphalia, the department is thus in line with the epilepsy centers of the University Hospitals Bonn and Bochum as well as the epilepsy centers Münster-Osnabrück and Bethel.