Prof. Liora Harel

Head the Pediatric Rheumatology Unit at the Schneider Children’s Medical Center. Chairperson of the Israeli Department of Pediatric Rheumatology.

Prof. Harel’s rich experience includes expertise in the treatment of arthritis, muscle and autoimmune diseases such as:

Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)
Lupus – Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Scleroderma, CREST syndrome
APLA syndrome
Raynaud phenomenon
Muscle diseases – Dermatomyositis
Vasculitis
Henoch-Schonlein Purpura
Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF)
Fibromyalgia
Growing Pains
PFAPA
Rheumatic Fever
Over flexibility

Prof. Harel has extensive academic and clinical experience, including the publication of dozens of articles in leading medical journals, the presentation of research papers at international conferences and the treatment of thousands of children from Israel and abroad.

Prof. Harel is a clinical associate professor at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University, specialized in Rheumatology at the Chicago University, where she was invited as a visiting professor tTo Stanford University in California. In 2016 she organized an international conference on PFAPA, which was held at the Schneider Children’s Center, with the participation of the world’s leading specialists in pediatric rheumatology.

Prof. Harel was selected as an outstanding lecturer at Tel Aviv University and was included in the list of the best doctors of Ma’ariv and Forbes magazine.