Joshua Shemer

Joshua Shemer
יהושע שמר
Born (1949-12-07) December 7, 1949 (age 76)
Israel
EducationHadassah Medical School
OccupationProfessor of Internal Medicine
EmployerTel Aviv University

Joshua Shemer (Hebrew: יהושע שמר; born 7 December 1949) is an Israeli professor, doctor, and chair of the Assuta Medical Centers network in Israel, currently building and developing the new advanced highly sophisticated public hospital in the city of Ashdod, the first of its kind built in Israel in the past forty years. He formerly served as Director General of Maccabi Healthcare Services, providing health services to 24% of the Israeli population. Shemer served as director general of the Ministry of Health and Surgeon General of the Israel Defense Forces Military Health Corps, holding the rank of brigadier general.

Biography

Shemer was born in Israel. He received his medical degree from The Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem. He is a full professor of Internal medicine at Tel Aviv University and is Board-certified in both internal medicine and health administration.

He was promoted to Chief Medical Officer of the Northern Command from 1987-1989.

Professional career

Dr. Shemer is the director of the Israeli Center for technology assessment in Health Care at the Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research at Tel HaShomer.

He was Director of the School of Public health at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University, lecturer at the Faculty of Management and head of the Multi-disciplinary Program for Emergency and Disaster Management at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv university.

Other activities

Shemer was a member of the board of directors of El Al Airlines from 2009-2018. He served as the Assistant Director General of the Ministry of Health, and he founded and served as the Head of Medical Technology and Infrastructure Administration from 1997-2000.

Books edited

References

  1. ↑ "Prof. Joshua Shemer – Chairman of the Board, Assuta Medical Centers". ALEH. All people, no limits.
  2. ↑ "Israel's First New Hospital in 40 Years Opens in Ashdod". Hamodia.
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  4. ↑ "ראשי בתי הספר הקודמים". med.tau.ac.il (in Hebrew). Retrieved 21 October 2026.
  5. ↑ Shemer, Joshua; Shani, Mordechai; Tamir, Orly; Siebzehner, Miriam Ines (2009). "Health technology management in Israel: HTA in action". International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care. 25 (S1): 134–139. doi:10.1017/S0266462309090540. ISSN 1471-6348.
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