Dr. Fahed Hakim laughs while admitting that he is remiss at taking his own advice about getting a good night’s sleep. As is the case with so many of us, his grueling work schedule, coupled with a full family life, takes its toll on his ability to get sufficient shut-eye.
But Hakim, a pediatrician and pediatric pulmonologist at the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, as well as a private practitioner in Nazareth, spends his waking hours efficiently and wisely. Sleep research he conducted during a two-year stint at the University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital led to a discovery that is causing genuine excitement in the scientific community.
“We found a new pathway that could drive medication in cancer treatment,” Hakim tells ISRAEL21c at his office in Rambam.
The connection between health problems and fragmented sleep is already known, says Hakim. For example, children who don’t get enough sleep exhibit memory and cognition difficulties, and have a greater tendency to attention deficit disorder. Hakim wanted to know why.
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