Maison Abu Raya, MD

Brain health global crisis necessitates a continuous dynamic interprofessional communication to maintain health care professionals’ competencies kept in pace with current standards and to enhance skills needed to stay abreast of the newest evidence.

Strategy

Maison intends to develop validated communalized test batteries in cognitive neurology, taking in account lingual, cultural and social diversities and paving the way towards better prevention, education for brain health and appropriate therapy.

Impact

As an Atlantic Fellow, Maison intends to advance research in ethnicities genetics, lingual and psychosocial differences in dementia, and to develop applicable community-specific recommendations for dementia prevention, detection, diagnosis and treatment.

Motivation

In the Israeli heterogenous society, as in the worldwide dementia crisis struggle, we need to address several impeding factors including: cultural, lingual, gender, social and financial factors and the lack of experts in this domain.

Education & Experience

Maison Abu Raya has received her Doctor of Medicine Degree from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 2014. Maison has completed her Neurology residency in Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera, Israel and passed the Israeli Neurology board exams with honors in 2019. She continued as an attending neurologist at the neurology department. Since 2021, Maison has joined Stroke and Cognition Clinic at Rambam Health Care Campus as an attending physician and clinical fellow.

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Hillel Yaffe Medical Center

Neurology

Residency

Rambam Health Care Campus

Stroke and Cognition

Clinical Fellowship