Eran Ben-Arye, MD

Prof. Eran Ben-Arye, MD

 

  • Co-founder and director of the Unit of Complementary and Traditional Medicine at the Department of Family Medicine, Haifa
  • Director of the Integrative Oncology Program within the Haifa and Western Galilee Oncology Service, Lin Medical Center, Clalit Health Services
  • Chairperson of the Israel Society for Complementary Medicine of the Israel Medical Association

Eran Ben-Arye has an MD degree from the Faculty of Medicine of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He specialized in family medicine at the Department of Family Medicine, The Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

Prof. Ben-Arye developed and instructed in a complementary medicine education program in the Division of Complementary Medicine at the Department of Family Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA. He is the co-founder and director of the Unit of Complementary and Traditional Medicine at the Department of Family Medicine, Haifa, and the director of the Integrative Oncology Program within the Haifa and Western Galilee Oncology Service, Lin Medical Center, Clalit Health Services.

Assistant Professor Ben-Arye is on the faculty of the Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, The Technion, and since 2007 has been the chairperson of the Israel Society for Complementary Medicine of the Israel Medical Association.  His research interests include integrative and complementary medicine, family medicine, integrative oncology, medical education, doctor-patient communication, evidence-based medicine and research, and traditional and cross-cultural medicine. He has authored and co-authored 112 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals and 8 chapters in oncology textbooks concerning integrative oncology, doctor-patient communication, sociology and nutrition. Dr. Ben-Arye has constructed and co-conducted more than 10 clinical studies in the area of complementary and integrative medicine, including three randomized controlled studies.