Dr. Zimlichman serves as Deputy Director General; Chief Medical Officer; and Chief Innovation and Commercialization Officer at Sheba Medical Center. He is founder and director of Sheba’s ARC Innovation Program, an open global innovation ecosystem which aims to redesign healthcare through digital health solutions by 2030. He is board certified in internal medicine, a graduate of the Harvard School of Public Health Executive Health Care Management Master of Science program, and earned his MD at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel
Dr. Zimlichman is a founding member of the International Academy for Quality and Patient Safety and currently holds an appointment at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School affiliated Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice, where he is conducting research on implementing technology to improve health care quality and patient safety. He served as an advisor to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Care Information Technology in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Zimlichman currently serves as co-chairman of a policy steering committee dealing with strategic uses of healthcare data at the Israeli Ministry of Health. In 2013 Dr. Zimlichman was appointed as an International Expert at the International Society of Quality in Healthcare (ISQua). He is board certified in internal medicine, completed a Master of Science in Health Care Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and has earned his MD at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology
