COVID-19 Pandemic

Dr. Ilana Dubovi

Dr. Dubovi is at the Department of Nursing, Stanley Steyer School of Health Professions at the Faculty of Medicine. She completed her PhD in Education at the Department of Learning, Instruction and Teacher Education, University of Haifa. She completed two postdoctoral positions, at the Department of Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences at Utah State University, and at the Faculty of Education at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.

Educational technology

Building upon a growing evidence that patient education plays a pivotal role in patient disease selfmanagement and health outcomes, Dr Dubovi’s research seeks to leverage the efficacy of educational programs by integrating digital educational technology. With this goal in mind, she develops and evaluates various cutting-edge technologies, such as virtual reality simulations, online games, computerbased models, interactive visualizations and more. Using intelligent multi-modal biosensors, her team was the first in the world to looking into personalized adaptive technology to make patient education process more fine-tuned to patient’s needs and literacy levels. Educational technology for patients is a very timely approach, even more so in times of COVID-19 pandemic era, to support distant patientclinician encounters as telemedicine aids.