Nava Gershon studied for her BA in nursing and MA in Public Administration at the Israel College in Tel Aviv.
She has also taken a Clinical Instructor's Course and a course in Intensive Care. Nava worked for 14 years as a Staff Nurse and Clinical Instructor in the Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery Department of the Wolfson Medical Center before becoming Head Nurse to the Pediatric Surgical Ward in 2003.
Since becoming Head Nurse, Nava has established and written protocols for all activities in the pediatric cardiac surgery department. She has the desire to improve and develop the system and keeps very high standards of nursing in her department.
She is active in the teaching of student nurses, as well as recruiting new resources for the benefit of the department. Nava succeeds in efficiently and skillfully treating and supporting the children of Save a Child's Heart and their parents, overcoming barriers of language and culture.