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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. 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).

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.

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

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.

References

1. "Board of the IGM". International Society for Gender Medicine. Retrieved 20 April 2016.