Working with trauma patients from every walk of life has taught the clinicians at Sheba Psychiatry something that cannot be learned from textbooks alone: PTSD never presents the same way twice. That insight has driven a broader mission—to ensure that specialized trauma expertise reaches far beyond the walls of Sheba.
A Sheba-led study in World Psychiatry, one of the most prestigious journals in the field, found that pre-trauma alcohol use was linked to worse mental health outcomes in survivors of acute trauma. These included more dissociation, anxiety, depression, and acute stress symptoms, while use of other substances did not show the same effect.
Recognized among Newsweek’s World’s Best Hospitals, Sheba Medical Center is advancing reproductive psychiatry through research that is reshaping care for women after stillbirth and pregnancy termination due to fetal abnormalities.
Sheba Psychiatry’s Pediatric Eating Disorders Clinic, located within the Edmond and Lily Safra Children’s Hospital, operates the largest and most comprehensive program of its kind in Israel, where constant innovation, multidisciplinary expertise, and compassion for patients and their families come together to support recovery for children and teens.
A study co-authored by Sheba Medical Center’s Dr. Vered Bar, Head of the Chava Center Reproductive Psychiatry Unit, in collaboration with researchers from the KI Research Institute in Kfar Malal, Israel, and Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, tested whether a machine learning model could predict a woman’s risk of postpartum depression, in some cases before she is even pregnant. Layered onto standard screening, the model was found to meaningfully sharpen detection accuracy.
At Sheba Psychiatry, quality is measured across critical points in the patient journey, from treatment planning and family involvement to discharge and continuity of care. National quality indicators defined by Israel’s Ministry of Health provide measurable benchmarks for evaluating performance, while Sheba’s own internal quality measures track additional aspects of care coordination and family communication.
