Draft:Shlomi Codish

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Shlomi Codish (born November 17, 1966) is an Israeli internist. Since 2018, he has been the director general of Soroka University Medical Center in Beer-Sheva, Israel.

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Codish was born in the United States and immigrated with his family to Israel in 1971. After living on Kibbutz Givat Brenner for a year, his family settled in Beer-Sheva, and he has been a resident of the area ever since.

Following his military service, he began studying medicine at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), after which he completed his internal medicine residency training at Soroka University Medical Center. From 2004 to 2006, he was a postdoctoral fellow in medical informatics at Yale University. In addition, he received a master’s degree in public health (medical management track) from BGU (cum laude).

In 2006, he was appointed director of medical informatics at the Hospitals Division of Clalit Health Services. In 2007, he became deputy director general of Soroka University Medical Center, a position he held for seven years. At the same time, from 2011 to 2015, he directed the implementation of the electronic medical records system of the Clalit hospitals network. In 2015, he was appointed medical director of Clalit Health Services’ southern district. In 2018, he was appointed director general of Soroka.

In addition, Codish is a senior lecturer at Ben-Gurion University’s Department of Health Systems Management.

Codish is a resident of Meitar, a town in southern Israel. He and his wife, Iris, a pediatrician, have three children.

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