Director, Maternal-Fetal Medicine Unit
Galilee Medical Center, Israel
Prof. Maya Wolf is the Director of the Maternal–Fetal Medicine Unit and outpatient clinics at Galilee Medical Center in northern Israel. She also serves as Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University.
In her academic role, Prof. Wolf is deeply involved in undergraduate medical education. She coordinates several core courses across the medical curriculum, including the Medical Exposure course and an elective course on Common and Urgent Medical Conditions for pre-clinical students, as well as an Introduction to Obstetrics and Gynecology Clerkship course and a Simulation-based training course for clinical-year students. Through these roles, she actively promotes early clinical exposure, experiential learning, and the integration of simulation into medical education.
Prof. Wolf conducts extensive clinical research, with a focus on obstetrics, maternal–fetal medicine, and perinatal infections. She has led both randomized controlled trials and large multicenter studies, including work on preterm prelabor rupture of membranes (PPROM), vertical transmission of antibiotic-resistant pathogens, intrapartum and postpartum infections, labor induction methods, and neonatal outcomes. Her research has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals, including the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (AJOG), AJOG MFM, International Journal of Infectious Diseases, Microorganisms, and others.
Beyond her academic and clinical work, Prof. Wolf is actively involved in professional leadership. She serves on the board of the Israeli Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine and is the Chair of the Northern Branch of the Israeli Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She also participates in national public and professional committees related to women’s health and obstetric care.