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Dream Doctors Avi Cohen, Hagar Hofesh, David Barashi, Shira Sattler Friedlander, and Herzel Ziyoni represented the Dream Doctors Project at this year’s AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, DC. Over the course of three days we met hundreds of people in our booth who were excited about our mission and it was such a treat for us to get to know so many wonderful people from all across the US! And we were honored to receive a standing ovation from an audience of 18,000 people during our presentation on the main stage. We invite you all to watch this 1 minute clip with behind the scenes footage of our time at the conference.

We are ecstatic to announce that the Dream Doctors Research Fund Sponsored by Moose Toys recently awarded grants to 5 research teams from hospitals and academic institutions across Israel. Their projects will look at the use of medical clowns in treating child patients from a variety of different angles that have never been studied before and the results will directly inform how we work with children in the hospitals.

We are so grateful to our partners at Moose Toys for supporting research that will help make children happy when they are the most in need of comfort and laughter!

Mazel tov to Dr. Vered Nir and her team, whose research has just been published!

Dream Doctors Vitaly Azarin​, Javier Katz, and Katerina Teplizki were an important part of the study, which showed that the presence of medical clowns improved the performance of pulmonary function tests for preschoolers.

Assistance of Medical Clowns Improves the Physical Examinations of Children Aged 2–6 Years

Dr. Noam Meiri​, Dream Doctors Amichi Ankri and Itay Nahmias​, and a team of researchers from the Technion evaluated the use of medical clowns during the examinations of young children in the Emergency Room.

In addition to finding that the presence of a medical clown improved the ability of 94% of participating pediatricians to conduct a complete examination and determine pathological findings, 95% of the caregivers accompanying their children to the ER reported that they would request a medical clown during their child’s future exams.

Medical clowning crosses all boundaries: language, religion, and culture

This moving clip from Israel’s Channel 10 news tells the story (in Hebrew) of 3 year old Asil from Gaza who, during three months of treatment at Barzilai Medical Center, formed a close bond with the medical team, including Dream Doctor Hagar Hofesh.

We applaud the medical staff at Barzilai and Dream Doctor “Mimi” for their compassionate care and we wish Asil a fast and full recovery!

The Dream Doctors are going to AIPAC!

Dream Doctors David “Dush” Barashi, Avraham “Dr. Sababa” Cohen, Hagar “Mimi” Hofesh, Shira “Shorty” Friedlander, and Herzel “Horatzio” Ziyoni were invited to present at this year’s AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington DC.

Watch the official announcement!

 

 

 

 

Training the Next Generation of Russian Medical Clowns

Dream Doctor Nimrod Eisenberg traveled to Moscow to train a new cohort of medical clowns from the Doctor Clowns group. It’s important to the Dream Doctors Project to share our knowledge and the special techniques that we have developed over the years with our colleagues around the world. We wish our friends in Russia the best of luck with this endeavor and look forward to seeing the the impact these new medical clowns will have on the young patients in their hospitals!