Dr. Mekori received his medical education at the Sackler School of Medicine, earning the M.D. degree magna cum laude in 1975. He completed a residency in internal medicine with honors in 1981 at the TAU – affiliated Meir Medical Center, Kfar Saba and moved to Denevr CO for a clinical fellowship in allergy and clinical immunology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, followed by a research fellowship in experimental allergy in the department of pathology at the Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Dr. Mekori 's research focuses on mast cell function in non-allergic inflammatory processes. In 1986, he established and headed the Division of Allergy and Clinical immunology at Meir and in 1990 was appointed Chairman of Medicine in that hospital. In 1993 he spent a year as a Visiting Scientist in the Laboratory of Allergic Diseases at the NIH, Bethesda, MD. A fellow of the American Academy of Asthma Allergy and Immunology Dr. Mekori maintains membership in numerous professional organizations, including the European Academy of Allergy and Immunology and the Collegium Internationale Allergologicum. He served as the President of the Israeli Society of Allergy and Immunology and member of several international committees in this field. At TAU, Dr. Mekori became Professor of Medicine in 1995, incumbent of the Argentina Chair of Allergic Diseases, a former head of the TAU-affiliated Felsenstein Medical Research Center. From 2002 Dr. Mekori served as Vice Dean of the Sackler Faculty of Medicine and in 2006 was appointed as Dean of that Faculty to serve in this position until 2014. In 2014, was appointed as a visiting professor at Stanford School of Medicine and Medical Center. Currently, Dr. Mekori heads the Herbert Mast Cell Disorders Center at Meir Medical Center. Main research interests include: Pathogenesis of the allergic inflammation; mast cell physiology; mast cell T-cell interaction; inflammatory markers in atherosclerotic cardio-vascular diseases, medical education.
