Chava Kurtz, R.N., M.A.

Chava is a doctorate student at the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine of Bar Ilan University in Tzfat, Israel, under the supervision of Dr. Sivan Spitzer, Professor Karl Skorecki and Professor Efrat Shadmi from the University of Haifa. Her PhD thesis topic is patient participation in the context of in-center hemodialysis units. Chava works as a nephrology nurse in the hemodialysis unit in the Galilee Medical Center.

Research Interests:

  • Patient self-care/participation in treatment care tasks in chronic illness
  • Inequality in healthcare
  • Healthcare policy

Keywords:

Self-care; Patient participation; Policy; Implementation Science; Chronic care

Recent Publications

She can be contacted at: avschavs@mac.com