Varda Shalev

Prof. Varda Shalev is a physician, medical researcher, and Professor of Medicine at the Tel Aviv University’s School of Public Health, bringing more than 30 years’ experience working in the intersection of health and technology. Prof. Shalev founded and was the Chief Executive Officer of the KSM Institute of Research and Innovation and Maccabitech, part of Israel’s Maccabi Healthcare Services. During her tenure, she established the largest biobank in Israel and developed a computerized system to predict the risk of colon cancer for which Maccabi won the Director General of the Ministry of Health's Excellence in Logistics in Health Systems award. She previously founded the Department of Medical Informatics at Maccabi Healthcare Services and was also their head of the Primary Care division. Prof. Shalev is also the Chief Medical Officer and co-founder of the digital health startup, Alike. She has authored more than 250 publications in peer-reviewed journals and was included in the Marker newspaper’s list of “100 Most Influential People.” Prof. Shalev earned her medical degree from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, School of Medicine, her Master of Public Health Administration from Clark University in the United States and completed her post-doctoral fellowship in Medical Informatics at Johns Hopkins.