9.12.1927 Born Vienna, Austria
1935-1939 Lived in Prague, Czechoslovakia
1939 Came to England on a Children's transport
1939-1966 Lived in UK
1955 Married Sheine Schwartzberg, physician
(Trinity College, Dublin)
1956-1999 Blessed with 4 children and 15 Grandchildren
1966 Came to Israel. Lived on Kibbutz Sasa ever since.
1996 Retired
Education
1945-1950 University of St. Andrews, Scotland
1950 MB, ChB
.
Postgraduate Qualifications
1952 Diploma of Obstetrics, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
1966 Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners
1975 Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners
Academic Experience
1969-1974 Clinical Tutor, Dept. of Family Medicine, Tel Aviv University Medical School.
1974-1975 Clinical Lecturer, Tel Aviv University Medical School.
1975-1985 Senior Lecturer, Department of Family and Community Health, Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa (adjunct appointment)
1985-1989 Senior Lecturer, Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
1991-1995 Senior Clinical Lecturer and Head, Department of Family Health Care, Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa.
Clinical Experience
1950-1952 Hospital appointments in England in Orthopedics, Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology.
1952-1954 Junior Specialist in Obstetrics Royal Army Medical Corps
1954-1955 Hospital appointments in England in Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Ophthalmology and Dermatology
1955-1965 Family Doctor, Lancashire, England
1966-1992 Family Doctor, Sasa district, Galilee
Appointments
1981-1983 Chairman, Israel Association of Family Physicians
1983-1992 Member of the Examination Board in Family Medicine Scientific Council, Israel Medical Association
1983-1992 Chairman, Syllabus committee on vocational training (residency) in Family Medicine of the Israel Association of Family Physicians
1986-1992 Senior Tutor in Family Medicine, Upper Galilee.
1989-1994 Israeli representative on the WONCA European Working Party on Quality in Family practice.
1994-1994 Israeli representative on the European Task Force on Patient Evaluation in General Practice (EUROPEP)
1990 -1994 Chairman, Working group on quality development in Family Medicine of the Israel Association of Family Physicians
1993 -1994 Tutor in Quality Development in Family Practice, Haifa District, Kupat Holim Clalit.
1997-2005 Director- the program for the study of medicine and the Holocaust. Rappaport faculty of medicine , the technion, Haifa
Membership of Organizations
• Israel Medical Association
• Israel Association of Family Physicians
• Royal College of General Practitioners
• World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA)
Published Papers
1. 1952 Spenser JT
Post-Mortem Caesarean Delivery after Rupture of Dissecting Aortic Aneurysm.
Lancet, Sept 20, 565
2. 1967 Spenser JT
A Survey of Cervical Smear Screening in General Practice.
Practitioner, 198: 274-280
also reprinted in:
1972 Seek Wisely to Prevent.
Studies of Attitudes and Action in Cervical Cytology Programme London, HMSO, pp 193
3. 1967 Spenser JT
A Diagnostic Work- Study Index
J Coll Gen Pract. 13: 39- 54
4. 1974 Spenser JT
Use of Intrauterine Devices in General Practice
The Family Physician (Israel). 4(1):70-77
5. 1975 Spenser T
The Problem-Oriented Medical Record
The Family Physician (Israel) 5(2): 195-202
6. 1980 Spenser T and Karni A
A Blood Pressure Screening Project in a Kibbutz
The Family Physician (Israel) 9(2):133-140
7. 1983 Epstein L, Tamir, A, Spenser T and Perlman S
The Community Project: The teaching Implications of
Applied Epidemiology.
Medical Education, 17: 39-44
8. 1984 Linder-Pelz S, Levi S, Tamir A, Spenser T and Epstein L
A Measure of Family Functioning for Health Care Practice
and Research in Israel
J. Comparative Family Studies 15(2): 211-230
9. 1985 Spenser T and Reis S
Diagnosis and Management of Cancer Patients:
The Family Physician's Role
The Family Physician (Israel) 13(2): 148-156
10. 1986 Hermoni D, Reis S, Almagor G and Spenser T
Malignant Melanoma: Early Diagnosis and Management
in Family Practice
The Family Physician (Israel) 14(1): 33-39
11. 1986 Spenser T
The Family Physician's Concept of Mental Health
and
12. The Classification of Psychosocial Disorders in Primary Care, Both in Mental Health and Primary Care:
Dutch and Israeli Experience
Netherlands Institute of Primary Health Care (NIVEL)
13. 1986 Maoz B, Stern J, and Spenser T
Developing Psychosocial sensitivity among family doctors;
a content analysis of Balint group discussions.
Isr J Psychiatry and Related Sciences 23: 205-214
14. 1987 Spenser T, Furst A and Karni A
The role of the GP in his contact with the cancer patient.
Israeli Cancer Association annual report
15. 1988 Cancer Care in Family Practice (edited)
International cancer news (UICC) Geneva
16. 1989 Spenser T, Rennert G, Schade E and Shalom J
Early Detection of Breast Cancer:
Compromise Guidelines for a Primary Care Setting.
J. Cancer Education, 4(2): 121-123
17. 1989 Spenser T
Anna and Abraham Ticho: a perfect marriage of art and medicine
Harefua 116 (2): 177-178
18. 1989 Spenser T
Maimonides: modern connections.
Harefuah 116:384-386
19. 1992 Dafni L, Tamir A , Spenser T and Spenser S
Long-Term use of inert intrauterine contraceptive devices
in 94 women in Israel
Br. J Gen Pract, 42: 423-425
20. 1992 Hermoni D, Nijim Y and Spenser T
Preventable deaths: 16 year study of consecutive deaths
in a village in Israel.
Br. J. of General Practice, 42: 521-523
21. 1992 Kalinski Z, Spenser S, Shalom J, and Spenser T
Compromise guidelines for the management of estrogen deficiency (menopause) and prevention of osteoporosis, targeted to the symptomatic or high risk women.
The Family Physician (Israel) 20(3): 48-51 and 264-267
22. 1993 Hermoni D, Mankuta D, Spenser T and Ben -Porat E
The Management of viral hepatitis:
Practical Guidelines for Primary Care.
The Family Physician (Israel) 21(1):78-82 and 15-19
23. 1993 Spenser T
Guidelines as an integral stage in quality development.
The Family Physician (Israel) 21(2): 223-227 and 37-39
24. 1993 Spenser T
What do we need to know about a patient with chronic headache?
The Family Physician (Israel) 21(1): 229-229 and 40-41
25. 1994 The Cancer Research Group
(Chief investigators, Reis T, Spenser T, Strulov A)
Cancer Prevalence in Israeli Family Practice
Scand J Prim Health Care 12; 20-23
26. 1994 Mankuta D, Hermoni D, Spenser T
The Preliminary Investigation on the Infertile couple
in Family Practice
The Family Physician (Israel), 22 (1): 14-19
27. 1994 Hermoni D, Bar Sela Y, Wiener Z, Spenser T
A subjective (history) information base for patients
in family practice
The Family Physician (Israel), 22 (1); 24 - 24
28. 1997 Spenser T, Tamir A, Reis S,
What do Israeli patients expect from their family doctors
and their general practices?
Israel J Fam Practice, 7:1-7.
29. 1999 Grol R, Wensing M, Mainz, J, Ferreira P,
Hearnshaw H, Hjortdahl P, Olesen F, Ribacke M,
Spenser T. and Szecsenyi J.
Patients' priorities with respect to general practice care: an international Comparison. European Task Force on Patient Evaluations of General Practice (EUROPEP)
Fam Pract. Feb 16(1): 4-11
30. 2001 Spenser T
The Evidence-Based Guideline Era (editorial)
IMAJ 3:960-961
31. 2001 Reis S, Goldfracht M, Tamir A, Van Raalte R, Spenser T and Hermoni D
Trends in Medical Specialty Choice Among Israeli Medical Graduates, 1980-1995
IMAJ; 3: 973-977
32. 2001 Spenser T.
Karel Fleischmann:physician and artist.
Br J Gen Pract; 51:82
33. 2003 Reis S and Spenser T
Medicine and the Holocaust – lessons for present and future physicians.
Br J Gen Pract; 53:78-79
34. 2004 Hoenig LJ, Spenser T, Tarsi A.
Dr Karel Fleischmann: the story of an artist and physician in Ghetto Terezin.
Int J Dermatol. 2004 Feb;43(2):129-35.
Papers Presented at Congresses
1. 1982 SpenserT
An Audit of Deaths in an Arab Village 1974-1981
World Congress of Israel Medical Association, Jerusalem
2. 1983 Reis S, Almagor G, Hermoni D and Spenser T
Snake Bite: Case report and guidelines for Primary Care
Congress of Israel medical Association, Jerusalem
3. 1983 Spenser T
First Experiences of the Use of the Problem-Oriented Medical Record for Quality Assessment in Israel
Joint South African – Israeli Symposium on Primary Care, Jerusalem
4. 1985 Kadri S, Spenser T and Cristal R
An Audit – Sheet for the Follow-Up of Hypertensive
2nd International Symposium on Hypertension in the Community, Tel Aviv
5. 1985 Almagor G, Reis S, Oren B, Spenser T
Sive P and Margolis C
Day – Release Course in Family Medicine in Israel
Congress of Association of Medical Education in Europe, Jerusalem
6. 1986 Spenser T, Reis S, Alamagor G and Karni A
Reaching the Hard-to-Reach
14th International Cancer Congress, Budapest
(invited paper, published in proceedings)
7. 1987 Spenser T
Guidelines for selection of a family doctor as a trainer in Israel
and
8. Spenser T and Almagor G
The evaluation of trainees in Family Medicine in Israel Both
at Meeting of the New Leeuwenhorst Group, Holland
9. 1987 Spenser T
An Audit of Deaths in an Arab Village, 1974-1986
(an update of the paper presented in 1982)
Annual Conference on Family Medicine, Afula)
10. 1989 Perlitz Y and Spenser T
A detailed classification of laboratory test:
A development of IC- Process – PC and ICPC
11. 1991 Hermoni D, Bar- Sela I, Wiener Z and Spenser T
Do we really know our patients?
Annual Conference on Family Medicine, Afula
12. 1993 Bloomenthal R, Spenser T and Ben Amram S
Unplanned pregnancies in a development town.
Annual Conference on Family Medicine, Afula
13. 1993 Spenser T, Tamir A, Van Raalte R
A Study of the Quality of life and Death of over 65s in an Arab village in the Galilee .
European General Practice Research Workshop, Zychron Yaakov
14. 1993 Spenser T, Goldfracht M and Geva H
Quality assurance of two-way communication between hospital doctors and GPs- the start of a pilot project.
European General Practice Research Workshop, Zychron Yaakov
15. 1993 Spenser T
Improving Quality and changing the performance of GPs:
A European Study.
WONCA/SIMG Congress on Quality of Care in Family Medicine, The Hague, The Netherlands.
16. 1993 Hermoni D, Spenser T, Ilani S and Reis S
A New Method for Evaluating Continuing Medical Education
WONCA/SIMG Congress on Quality of Care in Family Medicine, The Hague, The Netherlands.
17. 1993 Spenser T
Quality assurance: The Israeli experience
Conference on Quality in Family Medicine of the Swedish Association of Family Physicians, Solleftea, Sweeden
18. 1993 Spenser T
Guidelines in Family Medicine
The National Conference of the Israel Society for Quality, Tel Aviv
Books
1. 1965 Spenser, JT
Ailments and Remedies
Consumer's Association, London pp 124
2. 2001 Spenser T (curator)
Art and Medicine in Ghetto Theresienstadt.
(exhibition catalogue), pp 56
The Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, The Technion, Haifa,
and
The Theresienstadt Martyrs Remembrance Association,
Beit Terezin, Givat Haim-Ihud, Israel
3. 2003 Spenser T
Acute Otitis Media- Guidelines for Diagnosis and Treatment, pp 17
Kidum Meyda Refui, Sherutei Briut Clalit, Israel
4. 2007 Spenser T
Medicine and the holocaust, articles from "harefuah" (1946-2005)
Israel medical association
Chapter in a book
1. 1978 Spenser T
Principles of a Record System for Family Practice
337-342 in "Family Medicine: Principles and Application"
Ed: Medalie. Williams and Wilkins, MD Thesis Supervision
MD Thesis Supervision
1. 1984 Dafni, Liora (Tel Aviv Medical School)
A long term follow-up of women using Intra-Uterine Devices in a defined rural community
2. 1990 Nijim, Joseph (Tel Aviv Medical School)
An Audit of 171 deaths
3. 1993 Stashevski, Ruthi
A long-term follow-up of chronic headache
(Jerusalem Medical School)
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