Shimon Michael Glick
Shimon Michael Glick
Downstate Medical Center
Soroka Medical Center
Ben-Gurion University
After receiving Bonnie Zion Award
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Glick was born on June 30, 1932 in the state of New Jersey in the United States, where he grew up together with his sister in his parents ' house. Already in his youth he became interested in the fields of science, as a child dreamed of becoming a physicist and was always the best student in the class.
At the age of 23, he graduated from Downstate Medical Center in New York and began specializing in Internal Medicine at the Mymonidis Medical Center in Brooklyn.
After finifing studies in 1955-1956 he started working as an Intern at Maimonides Hospital, Brooklyn. From there he continued to the Yale University Medical Center and Mount Sinai Hospital. Later, he participated in a study at the laboratory of Rosalyn Zussman Yalu (Nobel Prize laureate for 1977) and Solomon Bresson, at the hospital for veterans in the Bronx District. He was engaged in research inEndocrinology.
In 1965-1977, he served as president of the Jewish Orthodox Scientists Association in the United States, and in 1967 he began to conduct medical services at Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn. In addition, he was a professor of Medicine at Down State Medical Center.
In 1974 he immigrated to Israel with his family to help establish a medical school at Ben-Gurion University in the Negev. In the same year he founded the internal department Jeb Soroka Hospital in the city, which he managed until 1997. At the same time he joined the teaching staff at Ben-Gurion University in the Negev, founded the Faculty of Health Sciences and served as Deccan faculty in 1986-1990.
In 1986-1990, Glick also served as head of health services of the Negev general health fund, and later served as public admissibility commissioner at the Ministry of Health and editor-in-chief of the Jewish Medical Ethics and Halacha journal.
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Member of National Advisory Committee on Human Experimentation Ministry of Health, Israel, 1985-1990.
Head of health services of Negev region
Kupat Holim (Sick Fund) of General Federation of Labor, 1986-1990, chairman medical council, 1986-1990. Ombudsman Israel National Health Services, 1998—2009.
Fellow American College of Physicians. Member Israeli Society for Medical Ethics (council 1989-1999)
Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists (president 1965-1967),
Israel Society of Internal Medicine, Israel Diabetes Association,
American Society for Clinical Investigation
Committee of Concerned Scientists (co-chairman medical science section 1973-1974),
Israel Endocrine Society (president 1979-1982)
Shimon believed that a doctor is first of all a caring, motivational and loving person. And that's how many people view him.
Quotes from others about the person
Shimon Especially like to tell about the words of advice he received from his rabbi, when he began to study medicine: "Never You will be indifferent to a person's suffering.
He got married in October 1956 in New York. Has six children. One of his children is Judah Glick, member of the 20th Knesset.
