Journal of Clinical Case Reports

Arnon Blum

Biography

 Dr. Arnon Blum MD is a Visiting Professor of Cardiology in the Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute in the University of Miami, studying the effect of stem cells transplantation to the Heart on the peripheral blood vessels and on endothelial function and endothelial progenitor stem cells’ growth and function. Dr.  Blum has graduated medical school in the Technion, Haifa Israel in 1983, and served in the I.D.F as a Flight-Surgeon and in the Reserve Forces as a Lieutenant Colonel. He graduated an Internal Medicine residency in Hadassah Ein-Kerem Medical Center, Jerusalem, and a fellowship in Cardiology in Rabin-Beilinson Medical Center. He continued for an Interventional Cardiology Fellowship in Tel-Aviv Medical Center and in 1997 joined the Cardiology Branch in the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland USA, as a Visiting Scientist. He returned to Israel in 1999 as a Director of Medicine in Baruch-Padeh Medical Center, affiliated to the Technion. In 2006 he returned to the National Institutes of Health (the Translational Branch) as a Senior Research Fellow for 2 years. His main interests are mechanisms of atherosclerosis, endothelial function and vascular inflammation, endothelial progenitor stem cells’ research and stem cells transplantation for cardiovascular disease. His main clinical interests are Heart Failure, Gender Medicine, and Advanced Imaging of the cardiovascular system.   Dr. Blum is actively involved in clinical research and leads many clinical studies in Israel and in the USA, and is a Visiting Professor in several Universities in the USA.

Research Interest

endothelial function and stem cells