Noa Katz Shroitman, MD, BSc

Hi! I am Noa. I was born and raised in Haifa, Israel, a beautiful harbor city by the Mediterranean Sea. My passion for medicine started when I was visiting my mother at the surgical floor, where she had been working as an anesthesiologist. I was especially curious about how the brain works, and what makes us think and behave the way we do. I completed my undergraduate studies in Biomedical Engineering at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, and earned my medical degree from Sackler School of Medicine at Tel-Aviv University. I fell in love with Psychiatry during my psych rotations in medical school and went on to complete an adult psychiatry residency program at the Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, which gave me an amazing opportunity to treat patients from all walks of Israeli society and grow as a psychiatrist. I was especially drawn to women’s mental health, and worked for a year at the Women’s Mental Health Service at the Division on Psychiatry in Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical center, where I was honored to give mental care for women who experienced mental distress in association with women's unique needs and life transitions (such as fertility and pregnancy related issues, traumatic labor, negative obstetric outcome such as still birth and disorders associated with the puerperium). Alongside my passion for clinical psychiatry, I seek answers for the many unanswered questions in the field through psychiatry research and focus on the genetic intersection with clinical manifestations of severe psychiatric mental disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Upon completion of residency, I was awarded a spot as a Basic Science Training Program (BSTP) Post-Doctoral Fellow and joined the Yale Mood Disorders Research Program (MDRP), directed by Dr. Hilary Blumberg, whom I was lucky to have as mentor. My research has been focusing on elucidation of the neurobiological and genetic mechanisms underlying the risk for suicidal behaviour in bipolar disorder, and the identification of brain and behavioural targets to reduce suicide-risk. Outside of psychiatry, I am a proud mother of three, and enjoys exercising and playing the piano.