Editors

Editor-in-Chief: Lt. Col. (Ret.) Prof. Adi Leiba MD, MHA, FACP
Associate Professor, Ben Gurion University, Israel.
Chief, Nephrology and Hypertension Institute, Assuta Ashdod University Hospital.
Chairman, Israeli Society of Hypertension, IMA.
Hospitalist- Nephrologist - Beth Israel Lahey Health, Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA.
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
Chief Consultant, Nephrology and Hypertension, Surgeon General + Maccabee HMO
Chair, Palestinian And Israeli Renal Society (PAIRS), ISNH, IMA.

Associate Editor: Lt. Col. (Ret.) Prof. Aharon S. Finestone MD
Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Associate Professor of Orthopaedics.
Foot & Ankle Unit, Orthopaedics, Assaf HaRofeh Medical Center, Israel.

Associate Editor: Lt. Col. (Ret.) Prof. Daniel Moran PhD, FACSM
Ariel University, Israel.
Heller institute of Medical Research, Sheba Medical Center, Israel.

Associate Editor: Prof. Aaron Ciechanover MD, DSc
Technion Integrated Cancer Center (TICC).
The Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute.
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel.

Editor Advisor: Prof. Yehuda Shoenfeld MD, FRCP, MaACR
Zabludowicz Center for Autoimmune Diseases, Sheba Medical Center, Israel.

Chairman of the Editorial Board: Brig. Gen. Prof. Elon Glassberg MD, MHA
Chief Medical Officer (Surgeon General), IDF Medical Corps, Israel.
Associate Professor, The Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

Staff

Editorial and Production Manager: Dr. Hen Yesodot

Editorial Board Manager: Sefi Faust

Graphic Design: ER Design Team LTD

Online Content Moderators: Amit Rimon, Yuval Haviv and Ido Baum

English edition Editor: Sefi Fuast and Yakira Zimand

Editorial Board

Prof. Arnon Afek MD, MHA
Associate Director General, Sheba Medical Center & Acting Director of Sheba General Hospital, Israel.
Director of the NY State /American MD Program, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Chairman, the National Council of Pathology and Forensic Medicine.
Former Director General, Israeli Ministry of Health, Israel.
Former member, Bureau of Governors of the OECD Health Committee.

Prof. Howard Amital MD, MHA
Sheba Medical Center, Israel.

Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Prof. Nachman Ash MD, MS, MA
Director-General of the Ministry of Health,
Division of Medicine, Maccabi Healthcare Services, Israel
Professor at Ariel University, the School of Health Sciences, the department of health systems management, Israel.

Lt. Col. Dr. Eva Avramovich MD MPH
Department of Management, Faculty of Social Science, Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
Head of The Army’s Health Branch, IDF Medical Corps, Israel.

Prof. Yossi Azulay
Maccabi Health Services, Northern Administration, Israel.

Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Prof. Tariff Bader MD, MHA, MA
IDF Medical Corps, Israel.
Department of Military Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Dr. Ronen Bar
Otolaryngology, Head and Neck surgery. Hillel – Yaffe Medical center, Israel.

Prof. Daniel Cohen
Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Dr. David Dagan
Director, Directorate of Government Medical Centers, Ministry of Health, Israel.

Estela Derazne MSc
Academic Center for Continuing Medical Education.
The Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Prof. Emeritus Eran Dolev MD
Tel-Hai College, Israel.

Lt. Col. (Ret.) Prof. Yoram Epstein
Heller institute of Medical Research, Sheba Medical Center, Israel.
Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Dr. Hagay Frenkel
Director Jerusalem & Shfela District, Maccabi Healthcare Services, Israel.

Dr. Eyal Fruchter
Clinical Assistant Prof. Bruss Rapaport medical faculty, Technion, Israel.

Lt. Col (Ret.) Prof. S. David Gertz MD, PhD
Advisor to the IDF Surgeon General for Victim Identification.
Director, Institute for Research in Military Medicine (IRMM).
Brandman Foundation.
Professor of Cardiac and Pulmonary Diseases.
Head, Saul and Joyce Brandman Hub for Cardiovascular Research.
Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Prof. Avishai Goldberg
Ben Gurion University, Israel.

Dr. Barak Gordon MD, MHA
Board certified in Family Medicine and Medical Management.
Senior Lecturer. Department of Military Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Prof. Manfred Green
Manfred S Green, School of Public Health, University of Haifa, Israel.

Prof. Itamar Grotto
Associate Director General, Ministry of Health, Israel.
Ben Gurion University, Israel.

Prof. Yuval Heled Phd, LLB, FACSM
Exercise & Integrative Physiologist.
Heller Institute of Medical Research, Sheba Medical Center, Israel.

Dr. Avi Itzhak
Ben Gurion University, Israel.

Dr. Michael Kassirer MD, PMH
Pulmonary institute, Soroka medical center, Israel.
Ben Gurion university, Israel.

Raeed Kayouf MSc
IDF Medical Corps, Israel.

Prof. Yoram Kluger MD, FISA, FACS
Division of General Surgery, Rambam Health Care Center.
Bruce- Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel institute of Technology.

Prof. Michael Krausz
Department of Surgery, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology,

Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Prof. Yitzhak Kreiss MD, MHA, MPA
Director General of the Sheba Medical Center, Israel.

Prof. Uriel Martinowitz
Sheba Medical Center, Israel.

Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Dr. Giora Martonovits
Editorial Board, Journal of Israeli Military Medicine, Israel.

Prof. Ofer Merin MD, MHA
Shaare Zedek medical center, Jerusalem, Affiliated with The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Prof. Charles Milgrom
Dept. of Military Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Prof. Jacob Moran-Gilad
School of Public Health.
Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.

Dr. Shlomo Moshe
Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv university, Israel.
Department of Occupational Medicine, Hashfela and Jerusalem district, Maccabi Healthcare Services, Israel.

Dr. Itamar Netzer
Director, Non-Pharmaceutical Technologies Evaluation.
Israel Ministry of Health.

Dr. Ram Sagi
Head of Medical Division.
Directorate of Government Medical Centers.
Ministry of Health, Israel.

Prof. Moshe Salai MD
Ariel University, Israel.

Dr. Shahar Shapira MD, MHA, MA
Board certified in Orthopaedic Surgery.
Yale University Shoulder Fellowship Graduate.
Flight Surgeon, Dive Physician.
Lecturer- Department of Military Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Dr. Leah Shelef
Editorial Board, Journal of Israeli Military Medicine, Israel.

Prof. Emeritus Joshua Shemer
Full Professor (Emeritus) of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Lt. Col. Prof. Gilad Twig MD, MPH, PHD
IDF Medical Corps, Israel.
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Medicine, Israel.
School of public health, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.

Prof. Shlomo Vinker MD, MHA
Chairman, Dep. of Family Medicine and Vice Dean, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Medical Director, Leumit Health Services, Israel.
President Elect, WONCA Europe.
Executive Board member EGPRN.
Treasurer, Israel Association of Family Physicians.

Dr. Yossi Weiss
Ariel University, Israel.

Lt. Col. (Ret.) Dr. Ran Yanovich
IDF Medical Corpse, Israel.
Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Prof. Yehuda Zadik
Director, Department of Military Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Prof. Eyal Zimlichman
Sheba Medical Center, Israel.