David Greenberg, M.D.

The Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Soroka University Medical Center.

Beer-Sheva, Israel.

E-mail: dudi@bgu.ac.il

Tel: 972-8-6400547

Fax: 972-8-6232334       

                            
 Dr. David Greenberg is a native of Israel. He obtained his MD from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer-Sheva, Israel in 1991, was boarded in Pediatrics in 1996, and did his fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at “The Children’s Hospital” in Vancouver from 1997 to1999.  He was boarded in Infectious Diseases in Israel in 2000.

He joined the Department of Pediatrics and the Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit of Soroka University Medical Center as a pediatrician and a senior consultant in Pediatric Infectious Diseases in 1999.  

In collaboration with various researchers from several universities worldwide, Dr. Greenberg was a member World Health Organization Pneumonia Vaccine Trial Investigators’ Group and of the Pneumococcal Molecular Epidemiology Network (PMEN).

Dr Greenberg is an Associated Professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.  He is serving as the Chairman of the Israeli Clinical Pediatric Society.

Dr. Greenberg research activities focus on respiratory infections such as pneumonia and otitis media, on vaccines such as the pneumococcal conjugated vaccines and on invasive infections such as bacteremia and meningitis mostly caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae.  He is particularly interested in epidemiology, molecular epidemiology and carriage of S. pneumoniae as well as in and the spread of antibiotic resistant pneumococci in the community. He is author or co-author of over 80 publications.