Dr. Leopold Glasner, a 32-year-old Jewish pediatric opthalmologist from Poland, is studying here with Dr. David BenEzra, a world authority on immuno-opthalmology at the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center. According to Polish and Israeli authorities, he is the first Polish physician permitted to visit Israel for advanced training since the State was founded in 1948.
Glasner, who was born in Gdansk and works at the Eye Hospital there, said he started a correspondence with BenEzra after reading his articles in American medical journals. “We wrote one another often because I wished to learn more from him about treating patients in our eye hospital in Gdansk,” he said.
“I applied to the Polish Ministry of Health and they agreed that I could go to Hadassah. The Hadassah Hospital receives patients from many lands and we see eye diseases we do not see in Poland,” Glasner explained.
He will study here for three months before returning home.
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