Public Activity

• Prof. Katvan puts his skills and knowledge into practice and public activity:

• ​Chair, the Public Committee on Age Limit for Organ Transplantation. The Committee, which included 25 members from various fields, decided to remove the maximum age limit for receiving an organ transplant in Israel. The director-general of the Ministry of Health accepted the Committee’s recommendations.

• Chair, the Forum on Regulation of Organ Donors Treatment, whose mission was to map and optimize the donation process and make it accessible to potential and actual donors. 

• Member, The National Transplantation Steering Committee.

• Member, research committee of the National Transplant Center.

• Past member, an institutional (ethical) committee for live organ donation

• Past member, National IRB Committee (genetic experiments)

• Member, various ethics committees

• Member, various investigation committees, the Ministry of Health

• Conducted a number of mock trials addressing Bioethics generally and organ transplantation specifically, which played an important part in increasing transparency and public participation in this field. 

 

Academic and Professional Activity

• Head, Research Authority, Academic Center of Law & Business

• Chairman, Disciplinary Committee, Academic Center of Law & Business

• Member, Prize Committee (The Best Student's Seminar Work), Academic Center of Law & Business

• Teaching Committee, Academic Center of Law & Business

• Head, Library Committee, Academic Center of Law & Business

• Member, Admission Committee, Academic Center of Law & Business

• Member. Ethics (Research) Committee, Academic Center of Law & Business

• Initiator and Manager of Research Projects, funded by competitive research funds

• Initiator and Editor (with Dr. Shelly Kreiczer-Levy) of the first online Newsletter for the Legal Academia in Israel

• Board member of the Israeli Law and Society Association

• Member, Academic Advisory Committee (AAC), Hadassah–Brandeis Institute, Brandeis University, Waltham, Ma, USA

• Edited the book titled: “The Ombudsman of the Israeli Judiciary – Decisions and Opinions on Judges’ Conduct”, which is intended for use by judges in the course of their work

• His research is cited in courts decisions (including precedential Supreme Court decisions), and the daily press.

• Member of the Israel Bar since 1998