ARC – The Center for Digital Innovation at Sheba Medical Center

Deputy Director-General, Chief Medical Officer, and Chief Innovation Officer at Sheba Medical Center

Prof. Zimlichman is an internal medicine physician, a healthcare executive, and a researcher who is powerfully and passionately focused on maximizing innovation to evaluate and improve the quality of healthcare and patient safety. “Many of the big medical centers are focusing internally because they want to develop intellectual property and commercialize it,” said Zimlichman. “But we know so many of the brightest ideas come from outside. They’re coming from startup companies. And especially in an environment like Israel, with so many startup companies around us, if you’re closed to those startups, if you’re closed to innovation on the outside, you’re missing a huge opportunity.” Before his current role, Prof. Zimlichman held the position of Chief Quality Officer at Sheba Medical Center. Before joining the Sheba team, he held the position of Lead Researcher at Partners HealthCare’s Clinical Affairs Department in Boston, where he was involved in efforts to found a strategic care redesign initiative. In that capacity, he established an internationally acclaimed program for gathering and reporting patient outcomes across the continuum of care. Prof. Zimlichman served as a past advisor to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and he is presently a member of three policy steering committees at the Israeli Ministry of Health. Additionally, he is currently conducting research at the Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice at Brigham and Women’s Hospital affiliated with Harvard Medical School. In line with his mission to shape and improve the future of healthcare, Prof. Zimlichman has been leading the Talpiot Medical Leadership Program at Sheba since 2017, an initiative aimed at promoting the brightest young physicians into leadership roles.