Dr. Gal Shafirstein was born and raised
in Israel. In 1992 Dr. received his Ph.D. from the materials department at
the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel. During his
studies Dr. Shafirstein was recognized with four awards for distinction in
research and studies.
Dr. Shafirstein joined Arkansas Children’s Hospital Research Institute
in 2001. In 2002, he was the recipient of the New Scientist Development Marion
B. Lyon Award for the Mathematical and Pathological Analyses of the Response
of Port Wine Stains to Pulsed Laser Treatment. Working closely with the physicians
of the vascular anomalies team, he developed a new mathematical approach
to predict clinical outcomes of laser treatments of vascular malformations.
He also developed a thermal ablation technology to reduce local recurrences
of cancer following the initial surgery. His research work has been supported
by the U.S. Army medical research and Material command and the National Cancer
Institute at the National Institute of Health.
Dr. Shafirstein is co-inventor of four novel technologies in Bioengineering
and a founder and manager of two UAMS BioVenture companies. He serves on
the review board for the U.S. Army medical research and Material command
breast cancer program, and regularly reviewing papers for leading journals
in his field of expertise.
Selected papers:
G. Shafirstein, W. Bäumler, M. Lapidoth, S. Ferguson, P. E. North and
M.Waner. A New Mathematical Approach to the Diffusion Approximation Theory
For Selective Photothermolysis Modeling And Its Implication In Laser Treatment
of Port-Wine Stains. Lasers in Surgery and Medicine 34:335–347 (2004).
Lapidoth M, Shafirstein G, Ben Amitai D, Hodak E, Waner M, David M. Reticulate
erythema following diode laser-assisted hair removal: a new side effect of
a common procedure. J Am Acad Dermatol 2004;51(5):774-7.
Babilas P, Shafirstein G, Bäumler W, Baier J, Landthaler M, Szeimies
R and Abels C. Selective Photothermolysis of Blood Vessels following FPDL-Irradiation:
in vivo Results and Mathematical Modelling are in Agreement. J Invest Dermatol
125:343 –352, 2005.
Wolfgang Baumler, Annegret Vogl, Michael Landthaler, Milton Waner and Gal
Shafirstein. Port wine stain laser therapy and the computer-assisted modeling
of vessel coagulation using the finite elements method. Medical Laser Application
20 (2005) 247–254
Bäumler W, Ulrich H, Hartl A, Landthaler M and Shafirstein G. Optimal
parameters for the treatment of leg veins using Nd:YAG lasers at 1064 nm.
Br J Dermatol 2006; 155(2):364-371
Mutlu Mete, Xiaowei Xu, Chun-Yang Fan and Gal Shafirstein, "Head and
Neck Cancer Detection in Histopathological Slides," Sixth IEEE International
Conference on Data Mining - Workshops (ICDMW'06), icdmw, pp. 223-230,2006.
Baumler W, Vural E, Landthaler M, Muzzi F and Shafirstein G. The effects
of intense pulsed light (IPL) on blood vessels investigated by mathematical
modeling. Lasers Surg Med 2007;39(2):132-9.
Shafirstein, G., Buckmiller, L. M., Waner, M., and Baumler, W. Mathematical
modeling of selective photothermolysis to aid the treatment of vascular malformations
and hemangioma with pulsed dye laser. Lasers Med Sci, [publish online ahead
of print] Feb 7, 2007.
Babilas, P., G. Shafirstein, J. Baier, V. Schacht, R.M. Szeimies, M. Landthaler,
W. Baumler, and C. Abels. 2007. Photothermolysis of blood vessels using indocyanine
green and pulsed diode laser irradiation in the dorsal skinfold chamber model.
Lasers Surg Med. 39:341-352.
G. Shafirstein, L. Hennings, Y. Kaufmann, P. Novak, E. G. Moros, S. Ferguson,
E. Siegel, S.V. Klimberg, MD, M. Waner and P. Spring. “Conductive Interstitial
Thermal Therapy (CITT) Device Evaluation in VX2 Rabbit Model “, Technology
in Cancer Research and Treatment, [publish online ahead of print], June,
2007.
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