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Howard Apfel is an American Rabbi and Cardiologist, currently practicing medicine at Columbia University Medical Center. He and his family recently moved to Ramat Bet Shemesh Alef, Israel.

Background

Apfel's maternal great grandfather was the prominent Lithuanian talmudist, activist, and scholar Chaim Yitzchak Hacohen Bloch. His maternal grandfather Rabbi Abraham P. Bloch was also a prominent rabbi, and author of the popular book "Day by Day in Jewish History." Rabbi Apfel received his rabbinic ordination from RIETS in 2003. He has served as a rabbi in YUHSB for three years as a Rebbe for the Beis Midrash Katan of the Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy. Previously, Apfel had been a maggid shiur at Yeshivot, Mevaseret and Torat Shraga in Israel. He has taught bioethics courses at the Yeshiva University Gruss Kollel in Jerusalem, at Touro College Landers College for Men and has given a shiur on Hilchot Shabbat as it relates to physicians at the Yeshiva University Albert Einstein College of Medicine for the past three years. He currently teaches at Yeshivat Torat Shraga in the morning as a rebbe and in the afternoon as a medical ethics professor. Apfel has published numerous contemporary halacha related articles. Apfel is a board certified pediatric cardiologist at Columbia University Medical Center.[1]

Education

Apfel received his BA degree from Columbia University in 1985, and his medical degree Summa Cum Laude from the State University of New York, Downstate in 1989, and completed his residency at Schneider Children’s Hospital. He also completed a fellowship in pediatric cardiology at the Babies and Children’s Hospital of Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, and specializes in congenital heart disease. He received Rabbinic Ordination from the Rabbi Issac Elchanan Theological Seminary in 2003.

Influences

Dr. Apfel considers his primary influences and role models to be Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Rav Ahron Lichtenstein. While he did not study by either directly, he has learned by many of their talmidim, and routinely espouses their ideas on jewish thought to his students.

Awards

Rabbi Dr. Apfel has received many awards during his years of practicing medicine. The following is a chronological list of his awards:

  • 1986, McGraw-Hill Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement
  • 1987, Lange Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement
  • 1987, Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society
  • 1988, New York Academy of Medicine Award for Significant Achievement in the Field of Cardiovascular Medicine and Overall Academic Excellence
  • 1988, Lange Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement
  • 1989, Sandoz Award for Academic Excellence
  • 1990, Samuel Karelitz Intern of the Year Award for Clinical Acumen, Diligence and Humanity
  • 1992, Stanley Levin Resident Teaching Award for Clinical Expertise and Teaching Commitment
  • 1994, Hatch Young Investigators Award for Cardiovascular [2]
  • Dr. Apfel was listed in New Jerseys Top Doctor edition as one of the top Pediatric Cardiologists in New Jersey

Publications and Articles

Apfel has published many articles for various publications. He has written for the Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society and Tradition: The Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought. He also was a Senior mentor and writer for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine Synagogue Compendium Of Torah and Medicine. He has also written over 20 articles for various peer reviewed medical journals.

References

  1. ^ [1][dead link]
  2. ^ Pediatrics: Cardiology - Columbia University Medical Center

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