Prof. Gabriel I. Barbash, MD, MPH

Dr. Gabriel Barbash is a graduate of the Hadassah Medical School of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and is board certified in internal medicine, medical management and occupational medicine. He also holds a master’s degree in public health (MPH), specializing in health policy and management, from the School of Public Health at Harvard University.

Dr Barbash was the Director General of the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center from 1993 to 2015. He served as the Director General of the Ministry of Health from 1996 to 1999, and was the chairman of the Israeli National Transplant Center from 1998 to 2000. From 2008 to 2012, he was a Visiting Professor at Columbia University.

Dr. Barbash has published more than 80 original papers, mainly in the fields of diagnosis, risk assessment, and treatment of acute myocardial infarction. Many of his papers were published in prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals, among them Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology and the New England Journal of Medicine.

In September 2015, Dr. Barbash was appointed Director of the Bench to Bedside (BtB) program at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot.