Dvora Corn, M.S., B.S., O.T.R., a graduate of Boston University, the University of North Texas and The Family Institute of Neve Yerushalayim, is the co-founder of Life’s Door-Gisha L’chaim, an international non-profit organization, that addresses meaning and quality of life for patients, professionals, and families in the area of life threatening illness, aging and end of life. She was the founding co-chair of the UJA-Federation NY sponsored Israel Jewish Spiritual Care Network, an organization of 22 agencies, which deals with the development of spiritual care in Israel and a pioneering leader in developing the field of spiritual care in Israel.
Prior to her Aliya in 1997, Dvora established one of the largest private rehabilitation practices in the Philadelphia-South Jersey area, and for 20 years was a practicing occupational therapist specializing in terminally and chronically ill adults. Dvora has lectured and provided workshops to patients, families and professionals throughout Israel and in the US. Her clinical work as a family therapist focuses on issues of loss and illness in which she works from existential and systems perspectives. In addition to her private practice and active role in Life’s Door, she is the Strategic Growth Consultant for B’Lev Shalem, an innovative Care-Management organization offering solutions for the clients and their families facing the challenges of aging and end of life.
Dvora and her husband Dr. Benjamin Corn, (Chairman of Radiation Oncology a Tel Aviv Medical Center and co-founder of Life’s Door), are active community members and live in Jerusalem and Caesarea. They are most proud of their 4 daughters and their growing families.