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Sheba Medical Center, voted as one of the world’s best hospitals for the 5th year in a row, is coming to New Jersey to partner with the local medical centers, healthcare industry, venture capitalists, and startup companies to create an advanced medical simulation and demonstration site.
Watch the recording of the fascinating and dynamic livestream to learn more about what this is and the impact it can have on the vision and reality of the future of health.
Dr. Klasko is an author, an entrepreneur and a believer in the creative and optimistic transformation of healthcare and higher education. He has been a CEO, a university president, and a dean of two medical colleges. Currently he is pursuing his passion to bridge academic health centers with the emerging world of digital medicine and innovation. Read More
Dr. Klasko is an author, an entrepreneur and a believer in the creative and optimistic transformation of healthcare and higher education. He has been a CEO, a university president, and a dean of two medical colleges. Currently he is pursuing his passion to bridge academic health centers with the emerging world of digital medicine and innovation.
His most recent book, Feelin’ Alright: How the Message in the Music Can Make Healthcare Healthier, uses music and creativity to tackle the biggest issues in healthcare and calls on leaders to find, as Sia wrote in her song, the “courage to change.” His fifth book (with Hemant Taneja of General Catalyst) in 2020, UnHealthcare: A Manifesto for Health Assurance, has become the manual for both founders and health system CEOs for merging the venture capital world with the traditional healthcare ecosystem. Dr. Klasko serves as an Executive in Residence at General Catalyst, North American ambassador for Sheba Medical Center in Israel, and as CMO and Operating Partner of Abundant Partners. He serves as the lead independent director for Teleflex (TFX:NYSE). In 2022, President Biden appointed him to the National Board of Education Sciences.
Until 2021, he was President and CEO of Thomas Jefferson University & Jefferson Health in Philadelphia, and architect of Jefferson Health’s record as the fastest growing academic health system and the landmark merger of two universities bringing together design and academic health.
In 2018, he was tied for #2 among Modern Healthcare’s “100 Most Influential Individuals,” was named Fast Company’s #21 “Most Creative People in Business” and in multiple years has been named among Becker’s Hospital Review’s “100 Great Leaders in Healthcare.” As a Distinguished Fellow of the World Economic Forum, he has spoken of the crisis in health disparities and the need for ethical standards in the digital revolution and is currently a leader in the Forum’s global impact on aging.Read Less
Professor Ziv is the Founder & Director of the Israel Medical Simulation Center at Sheba Medical Center. Bronfman Prize winner Professor Amitai Ziv is also the Deputy Director of Sheba Medical Center, responsible for Patient Safety and Quality Care, as well as Acting Director of Sheba’s Rehabilitation Hospital, and Associate Dean for Medical Education at Sheba Medical Center. Read More
Professor Ziv is the Founder & Director of the Israel Medical Simulation Center at Sheba Medical Center. Bronfman Prize winner Professor Amitai Ziv is also the Deputy Director of Sheba Medical Center, responsible for Patient Safety and Quality Care, as well as Acting Director of Sheba’s Rehabilitation Hospital, and Associate Dean for Medical Education at Sheba Medical Center.
Bronfman Prize winner Professor Amitai Ziv is also the Deputy Director of Sheba Medical Center, responsible for Patient Safety and Quality Care, as well as Acting Director of Sheba’s Rehabilitation Hospital, and Associate Dean for Medical Education at Sheba Medical Center. Influenced by his training as a combat pilot in the Israeli Air Force, Professor Ziv has become a world leader in applying simulation-based educational methods to improve the clinical competence, communication skills, and judgment of healthcare professionals —training them to apply better practices for their patients, enhancing teamwork, improving responses in emergency settings and extracting invaluable lessons from past errors. He has inspired his peers throughout the world to work together in creating new training models that reduce medical errors and provide a safer, more ethical, patient-centered medical culture, contributing to saving countless lives in the process. Read Less
Orli is the CEO of Liberty Science ARC HealthSpace 2030, and Head of ARC Global ARC Innovation at Sheba Medical Center. Orli joined ARC in May 2022 as the Chief Business Officer, to lead the strategic partnerships and grow ARC’s network of international partners, including leading medical centers, industry partners, academic institutions, government offices and Start-ups. Today Orli serves as the head of ARC Global and as the CEO of Liberty Science ARC Health Space 2030. Read More
Orli is the CEO of Liberty Science ARC HealthSpace 2030, and Head of ARC Global ARC Innovation at Sheba Medical Center. Orli joined ARC in May 2022 as the Chief Business Officer, to lead the strategic partnerships and grow ARC’s network of international partners, including leading medical centers, industry partners, academic institutions, government offices and Start-ups. Today Orli serves as the head of ARC Global and as the CEO of Liberty Science ARC Health Space 2030.
Orli leads the global initiatives of ARC, including Liberty Science ARC in NJ, establishing advanced Innovation & simulation labs for the future of healthcare, an accelerator for startup companies and other initiatives, including global consulting. Prior to Sheba, Orli worked for more than 18 years in different key roles in marketing, sales, commercial and strategy for few pharmaceutical companies, including Teva Pharmaceutical industries Israel, Pfizer, Janssen, J&J, and MSD.
Orli holds an MBA in health care innovation from Reichman University, a master of Health Administration and Public Health from Bar Ilan university and a BSc in Biology and Medicine science from Tel Aviv University. She was a teaching assistant in 2 courses at Reichman University as part of the MBA program of healthcare innovation: Redesign healthcare and Innovation in Healthcare services. Read Less
Paul Hoffman, the President and CEO of Liberty Science Center, is leading a transformative era at LSC. Of all established museums in the United States, LSC has grown the fastest, with total attendance skyrocketing 65% in five years to over 750,000 visitors annually. Mr. Hoffman is also the driving force behind SciTech Scity, LSC’s partnership with Jersey City to create a 30-acre campus to launch and grow dozens of world-changing science and technology start-up companies and reimagine K-12 science education.Read More
Paul Hoffman, the President and CEO of Liberty Science Center, is leading a transformative era at LSC. Of all established museums in the United States, LSC has grown the fastest, with total attendance skyrocketing 65% in five years to over 750,000 visitors annually. Mr. Hoffman is also the driving force behind SciTech Scity, LSC’s partnership with Jersey City to create a 30-acre campus to launch and grow dozens of world-changing science and technology start-up companies and reimagine K-12 science education.
Hoffman has been a top media executive. He was the long-time president and editor in chief of Discover magazine, the president and publisher of Encyclopaedia Britannica, and, most recently, the editorial chairman of the video-interview website BigThink.
He is a noted expert on the public understanding of science, and has advised NASA, the National Science Foundation, the National Academy of Engineering, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Hoffman, who was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College.Read Less
Prof. Eyal Zimlichman is an internal medicine physician, a health care executive and a researcher focused on assessing and improving health care quality and value, patient engagement and patient safety.
Prof. Zimlichman currently serves as Chief Transformation Officer and Chief Innovation Officer at Sheba Medical Center, Israel’s largest hospital. In this position he oversees the transformation efforts carried out at the Medical Center as it aims to redesign healthcare to be focused on patients, while being more effective, efficient and equitable. For these reasons, Prof. Zimlichman founded Sheba’s global innovation program (ARC – Accelerate, Redesign and Collaborate). Prior to this Prof. Zimlichman held the position of Chief Medical Officer and before that as Chief Quality Officer, both at Sheba.Read More
