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HOC chair: Ronen Brand, MD, Israel

I'm a Family Medicine specialist for about a year now, working in several clinics in the Upper Galilee and in Tel-Aviv. I'm a student at the School of Public Health (Epidemiology Division) in Haifa University, doing a master in Public Health. I've been serving as the Israeli VdGM representative and NEC for 4 years now.

Image person: Tom Axelrod, MD, MPH, Israel

Conference production: Ronen Bareket, MD, Israel

Family Medicine specialist for about a year now, working at Clalit Health Services in a clinic in Tel-Aviv.

Special areas of interest: overdiagnosis and overtreatment. Co-founder of the Israeli society for the reduction of overdiagnosis and overtreatment.

Scientific committee chair: Yael Gillerman, MD, Israel

Family Medicine for two years now, works at Clalit Health Services, in an underprivileged area in the south-east part of Tel-Aviv. Serves as a member of the committee against domestic violence and a member of the doctors' union committee in her district. Tutors family medicine residents and medical students in the Devision of Family Medicine at Tel-Aviv University. 

Social program manager: Annette Shany, MD, Israel

I'm a family medicine specialist for about a year, currently working in Clalit Health Services in Bonen clinic – an urban clinic In Haifa, Israel. I am proud to belong to the Department of Family Medicine in Haifa, affiliated to the Technion – Israel institute of technology. 

Exchange manager: Jonathan Orrelle, MD, Israel

Family Medicine 4th year resident in Maccabi Health Services. Working in a small clinic in Tzfat, located in the Upper Galillee, Israel’s northern district. Lately formally nominated as a tutor at the Devision of Family Medicine of Bar-Ilan University in Tzfat.