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]'''Marek Glezerman''' (born January 1, 1945){{citation needed|date=April 2016}} is an ] ],<ref name=":2" /><ref name="Academia-bio">{{cite web|title=Marek Glazerman|url=https://telaviv.academia.edu/MarekGlezerman|website=Academia.edu|accessdate=20 April 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date= |title=Researcher Data: Marek Glezerman |url=http://www2.tau.ac.il/Person/medicine/researcher_data.asp?type_data=education&id=aceigdcli&el_name=Glezerman&ef_name=Marek&dep_num=0100&sub_dep_num=0124 |access-date=1 August 2016 |website=Tel Aviv University |publisher=}}</ref> Professor Emeritus of ], head of Gender and Sex Conscious Medicine and immediate past chair of the Ethics Committee at the ]. He is the founding president of and past president of the . Glezerman is also a member of the Ministry of Health's National Council for Obstetrics and Gynecology, Genetics and Perinatology.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Ministry of Health's National Councils: מועצה לאומית לרפואת נשים נאונטולוגיה וגנטיקה |url=https://www.health.gov.il/Services/Committee/NationalCouncils/women/Pages/women2.aspx |website=Israel's Ministry of Health}}</ref> Prof. Glezerman is internationally considered one of the pioneers of Gender and Sex Conscious Medicine.<ref name=":2">{{cite news |last=Leach |first=Ben |date=May 27, 2009 |title=Men are the Weaker Sex, Says Study of Births |publisher=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/5392551/Men-are-the-weaker-sex-says-study-of-births.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.healthandsocietyscholars.org/1866/26872/188173|title=Annaliese Beery (Cohort 6) Haaretz.com|work=healthandsocietyscholars.org|accessdate=6 May 2016}}</ref>


==Medical career==
Marek Glezerman (b. January 1, 1945) is Professor Emeritus of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University. He is currently chair of the Ethics Committee at the Sackler School of Medicine, director of the Research Center for Gender Medicine at the Rabin Medical Center, founding president of the Israel Society for Gender Medicine and president of the International Society for Gender Medicine.<ref name="IGM-board">{{cite web|title=Board of the IGM|url=http://www.isogem.com/?CategoryID=167&ArticleID=86|website=International Society for Gender Medicine|accessdate=20 April 2016}}</ref> He is a member of the Ministry of Health's National Council for Obstetrics and Gynecology, Genetics and Perinatology. He is on Advisory Council for Gynecological Oncology and on the Advisory Council for Andrology in the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO).
Glezerman studied ] at ] in ], ], and at the ], ]. In the early 70s, he immigrated to Israel and settled in Tel Aviv. After approximately two years as a ] at the at ], he completed his residency in ] at the ] in ], followed by a fellowship in ] surgery at the in ].


After returning to Israel, he moved to ], joined the senior staff at ], and was in charge of the gynecological services and the gynecological operating theater. In 1984/1985, he did a gynecological oncology and pelvic surgery fellowship at the ] in ] and ] in ], ]. Upon his return to the ], he founded and headed the unit of ] He also founded and directed the Urologic-Gynecologic service<ref>{{Cite journal |last=M Glezerman, M Glasner, J Bar-David, J Bar-Ziv, V Insler |date=1986 |title=The setting-up of an ambulatory urologic-gynecologic service. Management of patients and results |url=https://www.ejog.org/article/0028-2243(86)90026-2/pdf |journal=European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology |volume=21 |issue=3 |pages=125–133|doi=10.1016/0028-2243(86)90026-2 |pmid=3956831 }}</ref> and later the Assisted ] unit. He also developed and introduced a novel Continuous Quality Improvement System,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=M Glezerman, A Witznitzer, H Reuveni, M Mazor |title=A model of efficient and continuous quality improvement in a clinical setting |url=https://academic.oup.com/intqhc/article/11/3/227/1806572 |journal=International Journal for Quality in Health Care |date=1999 |volume=11 |issue=3 |pages=227–232|doi=10.1093/intqhc/11.3.227 |pmid=10435844 }}</ref> which became a nationwide model for other medical centers.
== Biography ==
Marek Glezerman was born in Frunze (today Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan) in the former Soviet Union. His parents had fled there during World War II. During the first two years of his life, the family moved through various displaced persons camps, the last one in Germany. In 1949 they immigrated to Israel, where his brother, Dr. Abraham Glezerman, was born, and after a year and a half they returned to Germany, from where they intended to apply for immigrate to the USA. This plan did not materialize and the family moved to different locations throughout Germany. The family's last place of residence was Frankfurt, where Marek completed his matriculation examinations and began studying at Goethe University. During his first three years at the university he studied medicine, philosophy and psychology. In his fourth year he moved to Paris, where he concentrated on medical studies. A year later he returned to Goethe University in Frankfurt, where he completed his medical studies with honors and did his internship. He immigrated to Israel in 1972.


In 1989, Glezerman was appointed chairman of ] at ] and the ], positions which he held until 1997. In 1992, he spent a sabbatical dedicated to ] at the ], ], and during 1996/1997, a sabbatical dedicated to basic research on ovarian function at the ] in ], ]. In 1997, he was appointed chair of the Department of ] at the ] in ], where he also established, together with ], the first Center for Treatment of Sexual Assault Victims which has become a nationwide role model.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=A Golan, M Dishi-Galitzky, J Barda and S Lurie |date=November 2012 |title=The Care of Sexual Assault Victims: The First Regional Center in Israel - 10 Years Experience |url=https://www.ima.org.il/filesupload/IMAJ/0/44/22138.pdf |journal=IMAJ |volume=14 |pages=658–661}}</ref> In 2003, he spent a sabbatical dedicated to ] surgery at the ] in ], and in 2005, he was appointed to head the departments of ] at the ], which includes the ] and the ]. In parallel, he served as deputy director of the ]. After his retirement in 2012, he founded the Research Center for Gender Medicine at the ], which he directed until 2022. He also served in parallel for fourteen years as chair of the National Steering Committee of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the ].
=== Academic Career ===
In 1986, at age 41, Glezerman was appointed to the rank of associate professor at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and in 1991 he was promoted to the rank of full professor. Concurrently he was appointed to the Deichmann-Lerner Chair in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Ben- Gurion University. For four years he served as deputy dean of the School of Health Sciences at Ben-Gurion University and as deputy director of the School of Continuing Education. In 1998 he moved to the Sackler School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University, where he was appointed to the rank of full professor. In 2007 he was given incumbency of the Emma Neiman Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Glezerman served as head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Tel Aviv University and was awarded numerous prizes for excellence in teaching at Ben-Gurion University and Tel Aviv University. In 2010 he won the Athena prize awarded by the Gender Medicine Foundation in New York for his contribution to promoting gender medicine worldwide.


=== Medical Career === == Academic career ==
In 1986, Glezerman was appointed associate professor at ] in ], ], and became a full professor in 1991. He also served as vice dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and vice director of the Post Graduate School of Medicine at ]. He served as the Deichman-Lerner Chair of ] at the ] and later, after moving to ], as a full professor and the Emma Fein Chair for ] at ].
Glezerman began his medical career in 1972 as Ford Foundation Fellow at the Institute of Endocrinology at the Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer. Two years later he began his residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the Tsahalon Hospital in Jaffa. After completing his residency he specialized in gynecological surgery in Germany. In 1980 he began working at Soroka Hospital as a senior physician and was put in charge of the Department of Gynecology and the gynecological operating room. In 1984/85 he was on fellowships in oncological gynecology in the United States and Canada. Upon his return he established and ran the unit for oncological gynecology at the Soroka University Medical Center in Beer Sheba. At Soroka he also founded the urogynecology service , the andrology service and the in vitro fertilization (IVF) unit. He also established a system of ongoing quality control at Soroka, the first of its kind in Israel. This system was later adopted by many other medical centers.
In 1988-89 Glezerman was on a sabbatical in the United States. Upon his return he was appointed director of Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology “A” and chairman of the Division of Gynecology and Obstetrics at Soroka, the busiest of its kind in Israel- a position he held until 1995. He then moved on to the Weizmann Institute, where he worked for a year and a half in basic research in the area of fertility.
From 1997 through 2005, Glezerman directed the Gynecology and Obstetrics Department at the Wolfson Medical Center in Holon. Together with Dr. Sigi Rotmensch, Glezerman founded the first center in Israel for victims of sexual assault. Over the years other centers were built in Israel based on this model. In 2005 Glezerman moved to the Rabin Medical Center in Petach Tikvah and became Head of the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Beilinson Hospital and Hasharon Hospital. Subsequently , these departments became the “Hospital for Women”, the first in Israel to develop and implement a Service Charter, defining and implementing the practical enactment of patient’s rights. During that period Glezerman in his medical career, Glezerman also served as deputy director of the Rabin Medical Center, which is one of the largest tertiary Health Care Centers in Israel. In 2012, after retiring as director of the Hospital for Women, Glezerman founded the Research Center for Gender Medicine at the Rabin Medical Center, which he heads until today (2016). In parallel to his work at the various medical centers, he served, among many others, for fourteen years as chair of the National Steering Committee of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Maccabi Healthcare Services. In addition, he founded and headed the Maccabi Committee for Gynecological Surgery. He retired from both these positions in 2014.
In 2009 Glezerman established with others the Israel Society for Gender Medicine, and since then he has served as its chair. In 2010 he was chosen as president of the International Society for Gender Medicine, a position he still holds today. In the past he also served as president of the Israel Fertility Association, chair of the Research Committee on Obstetrics and Gynecology in the office of the Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Health, and a member of the executive committee of the International Federation of Fertility Societies and of the International Society of Andrology.
Marek Glezerman is married to Tzvia (nee Gottesdiner), a former tour guide, and they have three daughters: Shira (an artist), Maya (a psychologist) and Tamar (a film editor and director). The Glezermans have five grandchildren.


== Research and medical publications ==
Glezerman has written/edited eight books on Human Reproduction and Gender and Sex Conscious Medicine. He has published over 340 scientific papers and book chapters on fertility, obstetrics, gynecology, and Gender and Sex Conscious Medicine.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/296975912|title=Marek Glezerman's CV|last=|first=|date=|website=researchgate.net|publisher=|access-date=July 19, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=Marek Glezerman at Google Scholar |url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Marek+Glezerman&oq= |access-date=December 9, 2023 |website=Google Scholar}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Marek Glezerman at Google Scholar |url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Marek+Glezerman&oq= |access-date=December 9, 2023 |website=Google Scholar}}</ref>

=== Books ===
*Lunenfeld and V. Insler in collaboration with M. Glezerman. Diagnosis and Treatment of Infertility. Grosse Verlag, Berlin, 1978.
*Lunenfeld B. Glezerman M. Diagnose und Therapie, männlicher Fertilitätsstörungen. Grosse Verlag, Berlin, 1981.
*Glezerman M. Jecht E. (eds.). Varicocele and Male Infertility II. Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York-Tokyo, 1984.
*Lunenfeld B., Insler V. Glezerman M. Diagnosis and treatment of functional infertility. Completely revised edition. Berliner Medizinische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin, 1993.
*Glezerman M. The quest for the self-evident – Gender Specific Medicine (Hebrew). Modan Publisher, Tel Aviv, 2014.
*Glezerman M. Gender Medicine. Overlook, New York, NY, 2016.
*Legato M.J., M. Glezerman (eds.). The International Society for Gender Medicine. History and Highlights. Elsevier, London, 2017.
*Legato M.J., Feldberg D. Glezerman M. Sex, Gender and Epigenetics. Elsevier, New York, NY, 2023.

=== Scientific papers and chapters in text books ===
Over 250 scientific papers in peer reviewed journals and 90 chapters in medical books.<ref name=":3" />

== Recognitions ==
Glezerman received multiple recognitions for excellence in teaching from ] in ] and ]. In 2010, he received the Athena Award from The Foundation for Gendered Medicine for "Leadership In The Science of Gender-Specific Medicine".<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date= |title=2010 Gala |url=https://gendermed.org/events/past-events/2010-gala/ |access-date=July 19, 2016 |website= |publisher=}}{{Dead link|date=March 2020|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>

== Private life ==
Marek Glezerman lives in ], Israel, and is married to Zvia. The couple has three daughters and five grandchildren.


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Israeli obstetrician and gynecologist
Marek Glezerman

Marek Glezerman (born January 1, 1945) is an Israeli obstetrician and gynecologist, Professor Emeritus of Obstetrics and Gynecology, head of Gender and Sex Conscious Medicine and immediate past chair of the Ethics Committee at the Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University. He is the founding president of The Israel Society for Gender and Sex Conscious Medicine and past president of the International Society of Gender Medicine. Glezerman is also a member of the Ministry of Health's National Council for Obstetrics and Gynecology, Genetics and Perinatology. Prof. Glezerman is internationally considered one of the pioneers of Gender and Sex Conscious Medicine.

Medical career

Glezerman studied Medicine at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, and at the Université de Paris, France. In the early 70s, he immigrated to Israel and settled in Tel Aviv. After approximately two years as a Ford Foundation Fellow at the Institute of Endocrinology at Sheba Medical Center, he completed his residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Zahalon Hospital in Jaffa, followed by a fellowship in pelvic surgery at the Women's Klinikum in Munich.

After returning to Israel, he moved to Beer Sheba, joined the senior staff at Soroka Medical Center, and was in charge of the gynecological services and the gynecological operating theater. In 1984/1985, he did a gynecological oncology and pelvic surgery fellowship at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and Hôpital Notre-Dame in Montreal, Canada. Upon his return to the Soroka Medical Center, he founded and headed the unit of Gynecological Oncology. He also founded and directed the Urologic-Gynecologic service and later the Assisted Reproductive Technology unit. He also developed and introduced a novel Continuous Quality Improvement System, which became a nationwide model for other medical centers.

In 1989, Glezerman was appointed chairman of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Ben Gurion University and the Soroka Medical Center, positions which he held until 1997. In 1992, he spent a sabbatical dedicated to Andrology at the Justus Liebig University Hospital in Giessen, Germany, and during 1996/1997, a sabbatical dedicated to basic research on ovarian function at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. In 1997, he was appointed chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Wolfson Medical Center in Holon, where he also established, together with Dr. Sigi Rotmensch, the first Center for Treatment of Sexual Assault Victims which has become a nationwide role model. In 2003, he spent a sabbatical dedicated to Gynecologic Oncological surgery at the Rechts der Isar Hospital in Munich, and in 2005, he was appointed to head the departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Rabin Medical Center, which includes the Beilinson Hospital and the Hasharon Hospital. In parallel, he served as deputy director of the Rabin Medical Center. After his retirement in 2012, he founded the Research Center for Gender Medicine at the Rabin Medical Center, which he directed until 2022. He also served in parallel for fourteen years as chair of the National Steering Committee of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Maccabi Healthcare Services.

Academic career

In 1986, Glezerman was appointed associate professor at Ben-Gurion University in Beer Sheba, Israel, and became a full professor in 1991. He also served as vice dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and vice director of the Post Graduate School of Medicine at Ben-Gurion University. He served as the Deichman-Lerner Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Ben-Gurion University and later, after moving to Tel Aviv, as a full professor and the Emma Fein Chair for Obstetrics and Gynecology at Tel Aviv University.

Research and medical publications

Glezerman has written/edited eight books on Human Reproduction and Gender and Sex Conscious Medicine. He has published over 340 scientific papers and book chapters on fertility, obstetrics, gynecology, and Gender and Sex Conscious Medicine.

Books

  • Lunenfeld and V. Insler in collaboration with M. Glezerman. Diagnosis and Treatment of Infertility. Grosse Verlag, Berlin, 1978.
  • Lunenfeld B. Glezerman M. Diagnose und Therapie, männlicher Fertilitätsstörungen. Grosse Verlag, Berlin, 1981.
  • Glezerman M. Jecht E. (eds.). Varicocele and Male Infertility II. Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York-Tokyo, 1984.
  • Lunenfeld B., Insler V. Glezerman M. Diagnosis and treatment of functional infertility. Completely revised edition. Berliner Medizinische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin, 1993.
  • Glezerman M. The quest for the self-evident – Gender Specific Medicine (Hebrew). Modan Publisher, Tel Aviv, 2014.
  • Glezerman M. Gender Medicine. Overlook, New York, NY, 2016.
  • Legato M.J., M. Glezerman (eds.). The International Society for Gender Medicine. History and Highlights. Elsevier, London, 2017.
  • Legato M.J., Feldberg D. Glezerman M. Sex, Gender and Epigenetics. Elsevier, New York, NY, 2023.

Scientific papers and chapters in text books

Over 250 scientific papers in peer reviewed journals and 90 chapters in medical books.

Recognitions

Glezerman received multiple recognitions for excellence in teaching from Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheba and Tel Aviv University. In 2010, he received the Athena Award from The Foundation for Gendered Medicine for "Leadership In The Science of Gender-Specific Medicine".

Private life

Marek Glezerman lives in Tel Aviv, Israel, and is married to Zvia. The couple has three daughters and five grandchildren.

References

  1. ^ Leach, Ben (May 27, 2009). "Men are the Weaker Sex, Says Study of Births". The Telegraph.
  2. "Marek Glazerman". Academia.edu. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  3. "Researcher Data: Marek Glezerman". Tel Aviv University. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  4. "Ministry of Health's National Councils: מועצה לאומית לרפואת נשים נאונטולוגיה וגנטיקה". Israel's Ministry of Health.
  5. "Annaliese Beery (Cohort 6) Haaretz.com". healthandsocietyscholars.org. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  6. M Glezerman, M Glasner, J Bar-David, J Bar-Ziv, V Insler (1986). "The setting-up of an ambulatory urologic-gynecologic service. Management of patients and results". European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology. 21 (3): 125–133. doi:10.1016/0028-2243(86)90026-2. PMID 3956831.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  7. M Glezerman, A Witznitzer, H Reuveni, M Mazor (1999). "A model of efficient and continuous quality improvement in a clinical setting". International Journal for Quality in Health Care. 11 (3): 227–232. doi:10.1093/intqhc/11.3.227. PMID 10435844.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. A Golan, M Dishi-Galitzky, J Barda and S Lurie (November 2012). "The Care of Sexual Assault Victims: The First Regional Center in Israel - 10 Years Experience" (PDF). IMAJ. 14: 658–661.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. "Marek Glezerman's CV". researchgate.net. Retrieved July 19, 2016.
  10. "Marek Glezerman at Google Scholar". Google Scholar. Retrieved December 9, 2023.
  11. ^ "Marek Glezerman at Google Scholar". Google Scholar. Retrieved December 9, 2023.
  12. "2010 Gala". Retrieved July 19, 2016.

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