From the very beginning, Hadassah’s pacesetting progress has set the standard for medicine in Israel; this standard is excellence. An impressive list of achievements – each of them trailblazing – is testimony to Hadassah’s vision and mission. Today, the Hadassah Medical Organization continues to march forward to make the world a better place through healing, teaching and research. Hadassah practices translational medicine, combining state-of-the-art medical and surgical care with top-level interdisciplinary research and development activity. Hadassah’s physicians take their patients’ problems into the laboratories, grapple