Haim Reitan

Haim Nissim Reitan, born on 20 May 1946 in Istanbul, is a physician, diplomat, translator and publicist. His family moved to Israel when he was nine, and after his military service he won a studentship in Italy, where he has been a citizen since 1980. He graduated in medicine from the University of Pavia in 1974 and went on to specialise in diseases of the cardiovascular apparatus, phlebology and nephrology, training in Pavia, New York City, Miami and Texas and later in London, Rotterdam and Tel Aviv. He was first employed as a cardiology specialist at the hospital of Bergamo, founded his own medical studio that now forms part of his medical centre in Bergamo, and in 2004 acted as medical adviser on engineering projects for the construction of the new Bergamo hospital. Alongside medicine he has worked as an adviser and in diplomacy, mostly in Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.