Brouria Feldman-Muhsam (Hebrew: ברוריה פלדמן-מוחזם; 18 December 1916 – 2008) was an Israeli medical entomologist and parasitologist known for her pioneering work with mites and ticks.
[citation needed] After earning her Teaching Certificate at Levinsky College of Education in Tel-Aviv in 1935, Feldman-Muhsam enrolled in the University of Geneva in Switzerland and completed her licence ès sciences in biology there in 1937, qualifying her for doctoral studies.
[1] She returned to Mandate Palestine in 1937 and earned her Doctor of Philosophy degree in Medical Entomology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, graduating in 1942.
[citation needed] In 1944 she became a research associate in the Department of Parasitology at Hebrew University Medical School, and from 1961 to 1969 she was a senior lecturer there.<[citation needed] In 1968 she was appointed an associate professor and named head of the Department of Medical Entomology of Hebrew University of Jerusalem,[1] and was promoted to full professor in 1976.
[7][8] Feldman-Muhsam was selected the Helen Marr Kirbey Fellow of the International Association of University Women, in 1944; recipient of the Henrietta Szold prize, Municipality of Tel-Aviv, in 1955; recipient of a research grant awarded by the United States Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, in 1955; election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine; and election to be president of the Israel Society of Parasitology 1983–1988.