Director-General, Hadassah Medical Organization, Israel
Dr. Yoram Weiss was appointed Director General of Hadassah Medical Organization, following his tenure as Director of Hadassah Medical Center, Ein Kerem (2014-2021). He previously held the position of Medical Director of Hadassah Ein Kerem (2013-2014), Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology (2009-2014) and Director of the Center for Surgical Critical Care Medicine (2006-2009). Dr. Weiss received his MD degree from the Israel Institute of Technology – Technion, Haifa, Israel in 1990, following which he trained in Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Hadassah and the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Weiss has more than 20 years of experience treating patients undergoing major surgical operations and patients suffering from complex multi-organ failure in the ICU. He has extensive experience in both basic and clinical research including the design and execution of large-scale clinical trials. In recent years, Dr. Weiss has served on the Board of Directors of several biotech companies. Dr. Weiss twice won the prestigious research grant of the National Science Foundation and the European Critical Care Research Network Basic Science Award from the European Association for Intensive Care Medicine.
