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Academic degrees

Doctor of Medicine, Medical Health Administration Specialist and Dermatology Specialist.

Current position:

Deputy Director of Shamir (Assaf Harofeh)  Medical Center, as well as Director of medical administration department, head of safety and quality array and head of hospital accreditation array.

Director of the School for Quality, Patient Safety, Accreditation and Excellence, at Shamir (Assaf Harofeh) Medical Center.

Israel representative in EuroScan, for horizon scanning of health innovations.

Lecturer at Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv University,  and Israel Academic College.

Senior Researcher, Gertner Institute and Tel Aviv University.

Previous positions:

Director of the Medical Technology Policy Division at the Ministry of Health and member of the Extended Management Board of the Ministry of Health (2003-2012).
Member of the Subcommittee of the Health Services Basket Committee and Coordinator of the Professional Material for the Committee for the Expansion of the Drug Basket (2003-2012).
Head of the Technological Forecasting Division at the Center for the Assessment of Healthcare Technologies, Gartner Institute (2002-2013).
Professional Assistant to the Director General of the Ministry of Health (2000-2001).
Deputy Director of Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer (2001-2002).
Head of the Medical Emergency Branch, IDF Medical Corps (rank of Lt. Col.) (1997-1999). Officer in the Medical Corps (1982-2004).
Physician at Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer (1982-1997).

Scholarships and Awards:

Teenagers as “Agents of Change”– a Model to Influence Healthy Behavior on a National Level. 3rd International Conference on Health Policy, Jerusalem. December, 2006. Awarded prize for an outstanding poster, The Israel National Institute for Health Policy and Health Services Research.

First Prize in the Annual Competition for Improvement Teams in the Civil Service for 2009: The Process of Expanding the Health Services Basket According to the National Health Insurance Law; Improving the Content and Improving The Building. Ma'ale Ha-Hachami, May 2010

Second Prize for Outstanding Work (Poster) Tal Arena, Blei Ami: Improving Quality Indicators in Hospitals: Instilling Health-Promoting Behavioral Patterns through Information Flashes. Annual Conference of the Israeli Society for Quality, Tel Aviv 20.11.2013

Second Prize for Outstanding Work (Poster) Tal Arena, Tal Inbal. The Challenge of Creating Leading Leadership for Quality in Hospitals - Medical Students' Attitudes as a Predictor of Success 24th Annual Conference of the Israeli Society for Quality, Tel Aviv 22.11.2017

Outstanding Lecturer for the Year 2015-2016 Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health.

Civil Service Commission Award "Ot Hanatziv" for 2017 Award for Excellence in Management in Senior Staff.

Civil Service Excellence Award for the Teams Project - On Track Hospitals. Task Force for the Prevention of Falls in Hospitalized Patients. Civil Service Commission 2018.

Ministry of Health Director General Award 2019 (3rd place) in the competition on reducing stress factors and preventing burnout among caregivers and employees in the healthcare system - "Treat the Caregiver" project, Healthcare System Insights and Goals Conference, Tel Aviv March 2019. Grant 150,000 NIS.

Selected project by the President of the State, for Women's Day 2019, Clinical Leadership Development Course for Doctors, Beit Hanasi, Jerusalem, March 2019.

Outstanding Lecturer for the year 2018-2019, in the Master's Degree Program in Health Systems Administration, Israel Academic College, Ramat Gan.

Second Prize for Outstanding Work (Poster) Tal Arena, Maimon Roni, Maimon Shlomit, Conley Yaron, Yuval Revital, Frank Tali. Supporting the Secondary Victim: A Program for Building Resilience in the Health System - From the Individual to the Whole. The 25th Annual Conference of the Israeli Society for Quality, Tel Aviv 1.1.2020

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  • Medical Management

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