Prof. Livia Kapusta

Sackler School of Medicine, Tel- Aviv University, Israel (MD Degree)

PhD Degree, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Thesis: “Tissue Doppler imaging: echocardiographic assessment of anthracyclines cardiotoxicity in children”.

Dutch Certificate of Radiation Protection for medical specialist
Dutch Certificate of Basic Ultrasonography (a certified technician of Ultrasonography)
Dutch certificate for animal research
Dutch certificate of “Good Clinical Practice (GCP)” for medical specialists
Resident in the Department of Pediatrics, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre (RUNMC) and Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Resident in the Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, the Netherlands

Rotating intership, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel

Cardiovascular ultrasound technician, Children’s Heart Center, RUNMC, The Netherlands

Senior consultant in Pediatrics, RUNMC, the Netherlands

Senior consultant in Pediatric Cardiology, RUNMC, the Netherlands

Senior consultant in Prenatal Diagnosis, RUNMC, the Netherlands

Senior consultant in pediatric cardiology, Heart Institute – Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel

Senior consultant in pediatric cardiology, Edith Wolfson Medical Center, Holon, Israel

Head, Pediatric Cardiology Unit, Dana-Dwek Children’s Hospital, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel

Senior lecturer in Pediatrics (in the Netherlands and Israel)

Senior lecturer in Pediatric Cardiology (in the Netherlands and Israel)

Ongoing teaching activities affiliated to the University of Nijmegen for residents of Pediatrics, pediatricians, CB (“Tipat Chalav”) doctors, Family doctors (GP doctors), medical students, technicians and nurses

Member of the Master program committee for medical students. Member and tutor in the Excellent Medical Students program

Supervising medical students in performing scientific research projects (parallel to the MD thesis in Israel) in the Netherland and in Israel

Teaching in post graduate programs of Pediatrics

Contribution to ongoing imaging teaching activities affiliated to the “Fontys Hogeschool Eindhoven” (technical school e.g. for ultrasound technicians), The Netherlands

Teaching of international medical staff (nurses, echo technicians, medical students and doctors) as part of the ongoing international activities of Save A Child’s Heart program

Supervisor and senior tutor of  PhD students and doctors in several universities in the Netherlands

Member of the research committee of Pediatrics

Member of the advisory committee of the Pediatric Dutch Cancer Society, mainly for the “Late cardiac outcome of children and adults treated with chemotherapy”

Member of the Scientific Council of the Dutch Heart Foundation

Professional Societies

Dutch Association of Pediatrics

Dutch Association of Pediatric Cardiology

Association for European Pediatric Cardiology (AEPC)

Member of the (European) imaging society of the AEPC

Dutch Association for Cardiology (NVVC)
Netherlands Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (NVT)

American Heart Association (AHA)

Israel Heart Society

Israel Pediatric Heart Society
Israel Pediatric Association

Acute and late effects of chemotherapy on the heart muscles (myocardium) of children and young adults treated for cancer during childhood. Effects of chemotherapy on the heart muscles (myocardium) of children born to mothers that were treated with chemotherapy during pregnancy

Prenatal diagnosis and treatment of congenital and acquired heart diseases, incl. rhythm disturbances during pregnancies

Cardiac involvement in metabolic and genetic diseases

Teaching of nurses, technician, students and medical residents

Research in Pediatric Cardiology, mainly development of new imaging techniques and their application to healthy children and patients