American-born Israeli physician (born 1932)
Shimon (Seymour) M. Glick (Hebrew: שמעון גליק; born 1932) is an American-born Israeli physician.
Personal life
Glick was born in New Jersey.[1] He and his wife Brenda have six children including Yehuda Glick who is a rabbi and former Knesset member.
Career
Glick is a graduate of SUNY Downstate Medical Center.[2]
- He did his medical training (internship, residency) at Yale University Medical Center
- Residency Mount Sinai Hospital Internal Medicine in New York.
- Research fellow, Endocrinology, at the Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital in the laboratory of Berson and Yalow (Nobel Laureate).[2]
- First to Isolate Growth Hormone – with Jesse Roth MD
- First to measure Growth Hormone – with Jesse Roth MD
- First to discover Growth Hormone – Insulin relationship with Jesse Roth MD[citation needed]
- Before moving to Israel in 1974, Glick was Chief of Medical Services at the Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn
- Clinical Professor of Medicine at Downstate Medical Center.[3]
- Gussie Krupp Chair of Internal Medicine – 1977
- Chairmam of Department of Medicine Soroka Medical Center, Beer Sheba, Israel 1974–1997
- President of Israel Society of Endocrinology 1979–82
- Dean of Ben Gurion University School of Heath Sciences 1986–1990[4]
- Lord Immanuel Jakobavitz Chair of Medical Ethics – 1985
- Ombudsman of Israel Health ministry 1997–2008
- Director of Center of Medical Education – Ben Gurion University
- Distinguished Citizen Award Beer Sheba 2012
- Considered World Leader in Medical Ethics and Medical Education
- Editor of Israel Journal of Medical Science 1974–97
