Shimon Glick

Personal life

Career

• He did his medical training 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.
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• 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

  Awards and honors

• 2014 Bonei Zion Prize
• Member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States
• 1955 - The Mitchell Prize - Best qualified in Departments of Medicine - State University of NY
• 1984 - Newman Award - on his courageous stand during The Doctors Strike
• 1988- Outstanding Scientist - Samuel & Paula Elklis
• 2004 - Lifelong Achievement Award - Israel Health Ministry
• 2012 - Lifelong Achievement Award - Israel Society of Internal Medicine
• 2014 - Lifelong Achievement Award - "Bonei Zion" Nefesh BeNefesh