Giora Ram

Giora Ram () (Born March 22, 1947) is an interdisciplinary scientist in physics, mathematics, computer science, and medicine. He is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Weizmann Institute of Science, and the Royal Postgraduate Medical School (Hammersmith Hospital). His Ph.D. is in the area of medical physics and image processing.
Biography
Ram was born in Budapest, Hungary (as Weiser György) to a Hungarian Jewish family. His mother (Esther, Hoch-Ram, 1909-1986) was a Holocaust survivor from Auschwitz, who lost her husband and her eight sisters and two brothers and their children during World War II. She survived the war with her two children, Robert-Dov (b. 1935) and Zsuzsi-Rachel (1937-1998). She married Salomon Weiser (1907-1967), who came back from Siberian labor camp in 1945. Giora (György) was born in 1947 and his brother Pinchas (Tibor) in 1950.
The Weisers were active Zionists and their house often used as gathering and last stop before leaving the country illegally to Palestine. In 1949 they tried to escape to Austria and from there to Israel. The two eldest children Dov (14) and Rachel (12) joined a youth group who successfully crossed the border and reached Israel. A few days later the rest of the family with another group tried to leave, but they were captured at the border and imprisoned for about a year. All their property was confiscated by the Hungarian authorities. In 1956 the family emigrated legally to Israel.
They stayed at the Orthodox quarter of Viznitz Bnei Brak for about a year, mainly because of their uncle, Rabbi Davidovitz. They moved to a new immigrant village north of Netanya. In 1965 Ram finished his undergraduate studies at Bar-Ilan high school (Netanya) and was drafted to the Israel Defense Forces, where he served in various duties. He was honorably discharged after the Six Days War in 1967.
Education and research works
In 1970, Ram received his B.Sc. in mathematics and statistics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (with additional studies in economics and computer science). To finance his studies, he was employed at the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. He worked with Benjamin Mazar in archeology excavating the Temple Mount. Ram received a special study grant from the Pinchas Sapir fund.
During his mathematical studies in the area of functional analysis, he was exposed to the Radon-Nikodym theorem, which later was used for computer axial tomography in medical imaging systems.
Ram was one of the early students of Amir Pnueli and received his M.Sc. in computer science (image processing) from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1973. At this Institute, he was engaged in various scientific activities including research at the Geophysical Laboratory headed by Ari Ben-Menahem, developing and implementing computer algorithms and programs to process and analyze seismology and physics related data. One program for the reconstruction of astrophysical phenomena from radiation detected data was related to Radon transform. Ram developed compilers and interpreters for FORTRAN, BASIC, and LISP, and also taught gifted children at summer camps at the Weizmann Institute.
In 1973, he was chosen by the European Space Agency from a large number of international candidates, to develop their METEOSAT satellite image simulator (Meteosat-1 was launched in 1977). He was also with the European Space Research and Technology Centre and assisted in resolving certain technical problems for their satellite system.
In 1975, Ram returned to Israel and joined Elscint Ltd., to develop the first nuclear medicine data processor and analysis system (DYCOM) connected to a gamma camera. He was sent to Elscint's London-based international sales and service office in 1978 as a product manager. In London, he was accepted by the British Council for National Academic Awards for Ph.D. studies in medical physics/imaging at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School and Hammersmith hospital, in collaboration with the Polytechnic of Central London. He earned his degree in 1984 and partially published in various scientific journals.
At the Royal Marsden Hospital, he developed and implemented a unique prototype system for a new imaging modality using positron emission tomography.
In 1980, Ram joined Capintec Inc. (New Jersey, USA), as director of R&D. He was responsible for the development of a multi-modality picture archiving and communication system. He was also involved in the development of a radiation therapy planning system.
In 1983, Ram and his family returned to Israel and continued his research and business activities. Among his many projects implemented are the establishment of the Imaging Laboratory at Tadiran and the imaging-related activities of the Israeli aircraft project for the Israeli Air Force - the IAI Lavi.
He was nominated in 1983 as the president of Cardiac Care Units Ltd, in Haifa, a company in the cardiac monitoring area, where he implemented a comprehensive reorganization plan, defined a new product line in the Holter monitoring area, and in 1986 and 1987 received the "Approved Exporter Award", from Ariel Sharon, Minister of Industry and Trade.
Ram is the President and founder of Imexco General Ltd., a medical monitoring innovator in neurology, cardiology, and pain since 1987. In 1991 he negotiated and sold a new neuro-brain monitor, Neuritor, through a license agreement, to a newly formed subsidiary of the Israel Aircraft Industries that went public in the US by Oscar Gruss in 1993.
Books
# "ADHD - Children of Tomorrow" Published by "Gvanim", (2010), in Hebrew.
DanaCode (Israeli ISBN)= 0-00860000644-6.
# "The House on the Hill" Published by "Imexco General Ltd./Beit Alim", (2010), in Hebrew - Songs and Love letters.
DanaCode (Israeli ISBN)= 0-08000250081-4.
# "My Love, My Wife, My Divorcee" Published by "Imexco General Ltd./Beit Alim", (2010), in Hebrew - Dating and Mating. DanaCode (Israeli ISBN)= 0-08000250082-1.
# "The Hungarian Connection" Published by "Imexco General Ltd./Beit Alim", (2010), in English - An Autobiographical novel. ISBN=978-965-91623-0-7
# "Sex and Scientific Philosophy" Published by "Imexco General Ltd./Beit Alim", (2012), in English - Scientific and philosophical insights observed, analysed and researched by the author. ISBN=978-965-91623-1-4
Selected publications and research works
* In 1975 Ram won the ILA/IPA price for the best scientific publication honoring the late David Levine, "Image processing by computers".
* In 2006 Ram was elected by the US-Israel Science and Technology Foundation, under their "Technology Excellence Fellowship Program" and spent a few months at the Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience at Rutgers University, where he performed a research related to spinal cord injury.
* [http://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?QUID1055,U1240809834486&ID&did=1000445088 "They Became One Body"], Globes, April 26, 2009. (In Hebrew).
* [http://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?QUID1055,U1254893591288&did1000503294 "The Polygraph of Pain"] Globes, October 6, 2009. (In Hebrew).
* IPA's first prize for the best scientific publication 1975.
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* "The Application of Image Analysis Techniques in Diverse Scientific Fields" - Ph.D. Thesis, Filed with the British Library, The Polytechnic of Central London, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith, London, England, 1984
* S. Behar, G. M. Ram and H.N. Neufeld, "Real Time Ambulatory Detection Of Cardiac Arrhythmias".
Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy, International Symposium, Geneva Switzerland, April, 1985.
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* "Why Women Live Longer Than Men". A bio-psycho-social research work, considering the new directions in the area of fetal microchimerism. 2008.

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