Giora Ram
| Giora Ram | |
|---|---|
| File:Giora Ram.jpg | |
| Born | March 22, 1947 Budapest, Hungary |
| 🏳️ Nationality |  Israeli |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Hebrew University of Jerusalem, B.Sc. Weizmann Institute of Science, M.Sc. The Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital England, Ph.D. |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | In Medical Physics - Development of Medical systems, in the area of Cardiology and Neurology. In Nuclear Medicine - Development of data acquisition&processing system. |
| 🏅 Awards | Israel-ILA/IPA's first prize for the best scientific publication.1975 |
| 🌐 Website | page |
Giora Ram (Hebrew: גיורא רם) (Born March 22, 1947) is an interdisciplinary scientist in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Sciences and Medicine.
He is graduate of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot [1] and The Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London, England.
His Ph.D. is in the area of Medical Physics and Image Processing; his works were published in International Scientific Journals.
Biography[edit]
Giora Ram was born in Budapest, Hungary (as Weiser György) to a Hungarian Jewish family. His grandfather was a famous chief hazan-Cantor (synagogue) (Weiser Fulop (Hebrew: פיליפ וייזר) of Nyíregyháza. His songs appeared in records in 1910. Thank to a contribution by George Soros, two of his songs (#15,#16) appeared on recent CD-Jewish Cantorial Music from Hungary 1906-1929.[2][3]
His mother (Esther, Hoch=Ram, b. 1909-d. 1986) a Holocaust survivor from Auschwitz, who lost her husband and all her eight sisters and two brothers and their children during the war (WWII), survived the war with her 2 children (Robert-Dov and Zsuzsi-Rachel (b. 1937-d. 1998), Dov Ram (b. 1935-d. 2012),[4] Res. Brigadier General Israeli Navy. She married Weiser Salomon (b. 1907-d. 1967), who escaped from the Siberian labor camp in 1945. Giora (György) was born in 1947 and his brother Pinchas (Tibor) (b. 1950-d. 2013).
The Weisers were active Zionists and their house often used as gathering and last stop before leaving the country illegally to Palestine. In 1949 they tried to escape to Austria and from there to Israel. The two eldest children Dov (14) and Rachel (12) joined a youth group who successfully crossed the border and reached Israel. A few days later the rest of the family with another group tried to leave, but they were captured at the border. Giora (2) was separated from his parents and put in a Monastery; his parents were imprisoned for about a year and all their property were confiscated by the Hungarian authorities. Giora went to regular school in Budapest and also to 'Cheder' (alternatively, Cheider, in Hebrew חדר, meaning "room") until 1956, when the family immigrated legally to Israel.
They stayed at the Orthodox quarter of Viznitz Bnei Brak for about a year, mainly because of their uncle, Rabbi Davidovitz, who later prepared Giora for his Bar Mitzvah. They moved to a new immigrant village north of Netanya. In 1965 he finished his undergraduate studies at Bar-Ilan high school, Netanya and was drafted to the Israeli Army (IDF), where he served in various duties. He was honorably discharged after the "Six Days War" in 1967 (Res. Navy's "Science Officer”).
Education and Research Works[edit]
In 1970 he received his B.Sc. in Mathematics and Statistics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (supplement studies in Economics and Computer Sciences). To finance his studies, he was employed at the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics by the office of the Prime Minister of Israel. He worked with Prof. Benjamin Mazar in Archeology excavating Herod's floor in Jerusalem, (Benjamin Mazar, headed excavations in the 1960/70s of the earthen platform - the Temple Mount, which is believed to be the site of the first and second Jewish temples). Giora received a special study grant from Pinchas Sapir's fund.
In his Mathematical studies in the area of Functional Analysis, he was exposed to the Radon–Nikodym theorem, which later was used for Computer axial tomography (CAT) in Medical imaging systems.
Giora was one of the early students of Prof. Amir Pnueli and received his M.Sc. in Computer Sciences (Image Processing) from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot in 1973. At the Institute he was engaged in various scientific activities including research works at the Geophysical Laboratory headed by Prof. Ari Ben-Menahem (Hebrew: ארי בן מנחם), where he was developing and implementing computer algorithms and programs to process and analyze seismology and physics related data. One of those programs for the reconstruction of Astrophysical phenomena from radiation detected data was related to Radon transform. This was the basis for the Computer axial tomography (CAT) scanner invention lead by Godfrey Hounsfield and Allan M. Cormack from EMI, England, who received the Nobel Prize in 1979. Giora was developing compilers and interpreters for FORTRAN, BASIC, and LISP, he also taught gifted children during summer camps at the Weizmann Institute.
In 1973 he was chosen by the European Space Agency - ESA in Darmstadt, Germany from a large number of International candidates, to develop their METEOSAT satellite image simulator (Meteosat-1 was launched in 1977). He also was with European Space Research and Technology Centre-ESTEC at Noordwijk, The Netherlands, and assisted in resolving certain technical problems for their Satellite system.
In 1975 he returned to Israel and joined Elscint Ltd. (NYSE-ELT, a company from the Elron group) to develop the first Nuclear Medicine data processor and analysis system (DYCOM) connected to a Gamma camera. He was sent to Elscint's London based International Sales and Service office in 1978 as Product Manager. In London he was accepted by the British Council for National Academic Awards (CNAA) for Ph.D. studies in Medical Physics/Imaging at The Royal Postgraduate Medical School and Hammersmith hospital and collaboration with The Polytechnic of Central London. The Doctorate was awarded in London in 1984, his work was filed with the British Library[5] and part was published in various International scientific journals.
At the Royal Marsden Hospital in London, he developed and implemented a unique prototype system for a new imaging modality using Positron Emission Tomography (PET) method.
In 1980 he joined Capintec Inc.,New Jersey, USA as Director of R&D. He was responsible for the development a multi-modality imaging system (PACS[disambiguation needed]), which was presented at the RSNA meeting in Chicago in 1982; he was also involved in the development of a Radiation Therapy Planning (RTP) system.
In 1983 Giora and his family returned to Israel and continued his research and business activities. Among his many projects implemented are the establishment of the Imaging Laboratory at Tadiran Ltd and the imaging related activities of the Israeli aircraft project for the Israeli Air Force – the IAI Lavi.
He was nominated in 1983 as the President of Cardiac Care Units Ltd, in Haifa, Israel, a company in the Cardiac monitoring area. Dr. Ram has implemented a comprehensive reorganization plan, defined new product line, in Holter ECG monitoring area, received the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval and in 1986 and 1987 received the "Approved Exporter Award", from Ariel Sharon, Minister of Industry and Trade. Dr. Ram met with Ariel Sharon several times, first in 1977 when he formed Shlomtzion (political party) Hebrew: שלומציון, and several times during 1984-1987, while Sharon was Minister of Industry and Trade. Sharon also thanked Dr. Ram in a letter (June 2, 1985) for his support during his libel law suit against Time magazine.
Among the key Israeli Government individuals, in addition to Ariel Sharon, Dr. Ram met with Prime Ministers Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Shamir, Shoshana Arbeli-Almozlino and with Moshe Shahal.(pictorial references)[6]
Dr. Ram is the President and founder of Imexco General Ltd.,[7] a medical monitoring innovator in Neurology, Cardiology and Pain since 1987. In 1991 he negotiated and sold a new neuro-brain monitor - The Neuritor (FDA approved),[8] through a license agreement, to a newly formed subsidiary of the Israel Aircraft Industries that went public in the US (NASDAQ-MDTL-Medis Technologies Ltd) by Oscar Gruss[9] in 1993.
He speaks Hungarian, Hebrew, English and German, divorced and has three children (Rakefet (b.1975), Marganit (b. 1981) and Erez (b. 1994)), his hobby is antiques and collectables, painting and wood carvings.
Published Books[edit]
| Book name | Hebrew name | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ”ADHD – Children of Tomorrow” | ADHD -ילדי המחר | 2010 | |
| ”The House on the Hill” | הבית על הגבעה | 2010 | |
| ”My Love, My Wife, My Divorcee" | הרי את אהובתי, אשתי, גרושתי | 2010 | |
| ”The Hungarian Connection" | - | 2010 | |
| ”Hunting for Antiques and Collectables: The Adventures of an Antique Collector" | - | 2015 | |
| Mr. Giggle: Adventures in the World of Dreams" | צחקוקי: הרפתקאות בעולם החלומות | 2015 | |
| ”A Tale of Love and Passion for Life" | סיפור על אהבה ותשוקה לחיים | 2016 | |
| ”Stories and Poems about Love and Life" | סיפורים ושירים על אהבה וחיים | 2017 | |
| “Evolutionary and Philosophical Insights into Global Education" | - | 2018 | |
| ”Sex and Scientific Philosophy" | - | 2018 | |
| ”Education and Alternative Treatments for ADHD" | - | 2018 | |
| ”Nuke Them Till Eternity: An Autobiographical Novel" | - | 2018 |
Selected Publications and Research Works[edit]
• In 1975 he won the first prize of the Information Processing Association of Israel (IPA) for the best scientific publication honoring the late David Levine, "Image processing by computers".
•Famous Weizmann Institute Of Science Alumni #16
• In 2006 he was elected by the US-Israel Science and Technology Foundation - USISTF, under their "Technology Excellence Fellowship Program" and spent few months at The [1] at Rutgers University, New Jersey, United States, where he performed a research related to spinal cord injury.[10][11][12]
• "They Became One Body", Globes, April 26, 2009. (In Hebrew).
• "The Polygraph of Pain" Globes, October 6, 2009. (In Hebrew).
• Picture Processing by Computers.
Maaseh Hoshev - The bulletin of the Information Processing Association of Israel(IPA).
No.7, April 1974. IPA's first prize for the best scientific publication 1975.
• Analysis of Images Specified by Graphlike Descriptions.
The Journal of Computer Graphics and Image Processing, No. 5, 137-148, 1976.
• M.I.S. - The METEOSAT Image Simulator.
IMACS - International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation.
North - Holland Publishing Company. Vol. XIX (1977) pp 151–158.
• A General Purpose Computerized Display and Analysis System for Image Processing in Nuclear Medicine.
Journal of Computer Programs in Biomedicine. Vol. 10/3 1979 pp 245–260.
• Automatic Left Ventricular Outlining.
The Journal of Computer Programs in Biomedicine. Vol. 14/3, 1982 pp 267–270
• Optimization of Ionizing Radiation Usage in Medical Imaging by Means of Image Enhancement Techniques.
The Journal of Medical Physics. Sep./Oct. 1982 Vol. 9, No. 5 pp 733–737
• On the Encoding and Representing of Images.
The Journal of Computer Graphics and Image Processing. Vol. 26, pp 224–232, 1984
• The Application of Image Analysis Techniques in Diverse Scientific Fields - Ph.D. Thesis, Filed with the British Library, The Polytechnic of Central London, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith, London, England, 1984
• Real Time Ambulatory Detection Of Cardiac Arrhythmias.
S. Behar, G. M. Ram and H.N. Neufeld, Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy, International Symposium, Geneva Switzerland, April, 1985
• Note on Time Space and Relativity.
The British Journal of Philosophy. 2002.
• Why Women Live Longer Than Men.
A bio-psycho-social research work, considering the new directions in the area of fetal microchimerism.
Scientific Memberships[edit]
• Information Processing Association of Israel (IPA], since 1975
• Association for Computing Machinery – ACM, Voting member since 1981
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers – IEEE, Member since 1981
• The Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers – SPIE, member since 1982
• The American Association of Physicists in Medicine – AAPM, member since 1982
Dr. Ram participated in diverse International scientific congresses and meetings, among them:
AHA, ACC, SNM, AAN, RSNA, CARDIOSTIM
References[edit]
- ↑ Famous Weizmann Institute Of Science Alumni #16
- ↑ Original Records
- ↑ Jewish Cantorial records from the Austro-Hungarian period (in Hungarian)
- ↑ Dov Ram, (Heb. דב רם)
- ↑ Filing with the British Library
- ↑ Pictorial references
- ↑ Imexco General Ltd.
- ↑ FDA Approval of the Neuritor
- ↑ Oscar Gruss
- ↑ New Jersey Governor
- ↑ New Jersey Jewish News
- ↑ Rutgers Focus
External links[edit]
• Additional publications • Art web site • Linked-in •Facebook
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