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uncle, Dr. Jeffrey Taub, helped treat
her and inspired her journey over the
last two decades.
Elana graduated from Hillel
Day School, Andover High School,
Michigan State University and the
MSU College of Human Medicine.
Today, she is cancer-free and lives
in Midtown, across from the Detroit
Institute of Arts. She’s a mile from her
work as a resident in pediatrics in the
same hospital where she was treated
herself. It’s an inspiring story to other
children battling through adversity.
Elana finds deep meaning in her
work and her life in Detroit. She also
appreciates her proximity to family
here and in Windsor. After her resi-
dency and fellowship, she’d like to
end up in Detroit.

DR. JOE ROOFEH
A more recent resident to the city
is Joe Roofeh, who came from
Israel, where he graduated from
the Technion Medical School. Joe, a
medical resident in OB/GYN, is now
delivering several
newborns each day
as a part of his
rotation at Hutzel
Harper Hospital.
He is reaching his
six-month anniver-
sary in Detroit this
month.
Dr. Joe Roofeh
Joe was led to
Detroit by a friend
who had been a
medical resident here in the same
department and program a few years
earlier.
“The city is fun and safe,” he said.
“There are many bars and restau-
rants, and the Jewish community is a
lot bigger than anticipated, which I’m
very happy about.”
One day in the ER, Joe, who grew
up in New York and is the child of
Jewish immigrants from Iran, ran
into a Jewish nurse who connected
him with a local NEXTGen leader in
the community for Shabbat. He has
also been to the Chabad in Midtown
and has connected with other young
Jewish residents Downtown.

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DR. LINDSAY
SKLAR
Down Woodward,
at the Veterans
Affairs Medical
Center, Lindsay
Sklar has been pur-
suing her medical
residency the past
three years through
WSU’s dermatology

program. After graduating from the
University of Michigan, she took a
year off to play professional basket-
ball in Israel.
She returned for her first medi-
cal school studies at WSU — her
first choice. Her parents, Brenda
and Robert, both physicians, met
at WSU. Sklar, who grew up in
Franklin, rarely visited Detroit as a
child, but now is passionate about
the city, which she describes as
really safe and beautiful.
Two years ago, to advance Jewish
life Downtown, she became social
activities chair of the Jewish Medical
Student Association at WSU.
Lindsay mentions the new $8.2
million food court expansion at the
Detroit Receiving Hospital — with
a Bigalora Pizza and Papa Joe’s —
as a destination she enjoys, and
also spoke highly of the Chabad in
Midtown, which she views as “trans-
formational.” The Chabad sends
gifts to medical professionals during
the High Holidays and welcomes
members of the medical community
throughout the year for Shabbat and
holidays.
After completing a specialized
procedural dermatology fellowship
in cosmetics and Mohs surgery,
Sklar intends to return to Detroit.

LEEDOR LIEBERMAN
Leedor Lieberman is also inspired
to be a physician because of her
parents, who met while her father
was on a medical rotation in Israel
and now live in
Birmingham. Her
father, Dr. Randy
Lieberman, is
director of elec-
trophysiology at
Detroit Medical
Center. Leedor
wanted to pursue
Leedor
bio-engineering in
Lieberman
college because of
her interest in rec-
reating the medical devices she saw
around her house as a child.
Her mother, Ramona, inspired
her passion of volunteerism and
serving others. Leedor, who lives in
Midtown’s Park Shelton Apartments,
is in her fourth year of medical stud-
ies at WSU. When she started her
studies, most of her friends lived
in Royal Oak or Ferndale; now the
majority live in Detroit.
“While my parents were nervous
when I moved to Detroit, it’s been
a really awesome experience,” she
said. “I’ve had the chance to give
back to my hometown by educating

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