Faculty and Staff - Optometry (B.Optom)

Rema Shabany- Khayyat, O.D.

Doctor of Optometry scince 1998. She Obtained her Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in Biology, from the Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, and her Doctor of Optometry (O.D.) degree from the University of Missouri- St. Louis, U.S.A.

She has been teaching at Hadassah Academic college since 2001 and was appointed as a full time faculty member at HAC in 2005. She is an experienced clinician and  educator in the field.

Research areas

Values and Knowledge in Optometry Education (VaKE)

Pedagogical Techniques in Optometry Education 

Academic publications

Editorial: Explaining Presbyopia to Patients in the Optometry and Vision Science Journal 1998

Explaining Presbyopia to Patients-Optometry and Vision Science September 1998 - Volume 75

- Issue 9 - ppg 627-628 editorial

Collaborations: Part of HAC collaborations in the OCULUS consortium

Dr. Ifrah is an optometrist with Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Optometry from Hadassah Academic College, a Master’s degree in medical neurobiology from the Hebrew University and a Doctoral degree in Optometry from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in collaboration with Hadassah Academic College.

She has been teaching at Hadassah Academic college since 2008 and is an active researcher in the field of meibomian gland dysfunction and dry eye.

Ms. Politi is a clinic instructor and lecturer at Hadassah Academic College. 

She is an optometry clinic director at Shaare Zedek Medical Center and a clinic instructor for optometry and medical students.

In addition, she's a director of a private clinic in Shaare Zedek that specializes in the fitting of specialty contact lenses and treatment of binocular issues among pediatric and geriatric patients. 

Dr.  Saleh Abu-Raya Obtained his B.Sc. degree (in Biology), M.Sc. (Endocrinology), and PhD (Pharmacology), from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Dr. Abu-Raya teaches several courses at Hadassah Academic college since 2000  as part of the graduate programs, in the Department of Optometry: ( General Pharmacology, Ocular Pharmacology), Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences: (Pharmacology, Endocrinology, Seminar), Department of Biotechnology: (Pharmacology and Drug Metabolism, Physiology of the Endocrine System).

Other Activities of Dr. Abu-Raya at Hadassah Academic College: 

• Member of the Teaching Committee of the Medical Laboratory Sciences Department
• Academic advisor for third year students in the Medical Laboratory Sciences Department
• Academic advisor for students from Arab society

Dr. Abu-Raya has published many papers in the international scientific journals on the fields of: 

1)Phospholipase A2 and their involvement in exocytosis in PC12 cells.

2)Synthesis and release of prostaglandis under ischemic conditions.

3)  the neuroprotective effect of  Rasagiline, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor, on 

NGF-differentiated PC12 cells against oxygen-glucose deprivation.

Contact: saleh@jmc.ac.il