Dr. Cohen received his Doctor of Medicine with honors, from the University of Alabama School of Medicine in Birmingham. He completed an internship and residency in Internal Medicine, and a fellowship in Rheumatology at UT Southwestern/St. Paul University Hospital. His research group has participated in the development of nearly all the biologic therapies and targeted synthetic Dmards developed for inflammatory arthritis  in the last 23 years.

He has been involved in training of medical students, residents and rheumatology fellows. He is a past president of the American College of Rheumatology Research Foundation and the American College of Rheumatology  and was honored in 2016 with the designation of Master by the American College of Rheumatology. In 2021 he was awarded the ACR Presidential Gold Medal in recognition of outstanding achievements in rheumatology over an entire career.

Dr. Rubin is Professor of Medicine with a secondary appointment as Professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. The NIH, NSF, DARPA, the Global Alliance for TB Drug Discovery and the Gates Foundation have funded his basic biochemical and genetic research in infectious diseases, resulting in more than 100 peer-reviewed papers. In addition to his work on the basic biology of disease, he works on mathematical models of complex biological systems including models of the spread of infectious diseases, models of bacterial survival strategies under uncertain environmental conditions and predictive maintenance vaccine refrigeration systems using digital twins and machine learning. He served on national and international scientific review panels including the NIH, NSF, NASA Intelligent Systems Program, DARPA, and The Medical Research Council, South Africa. He was a member of the U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity and the Dept. of Defense/National Academy of Sciences Biological Cooperative Threat Reduction Program.

Dr. Rubin’s inpatient and outpatient clinical practice at the University of Pennsylvania is focused on patients with infectious diseases. He is the founder of Energize the Chain, a non-profit organization that ensures the delivery of vaccines to people in the most remote regions of the world by utilizing energy and connectivity available at cell tower sites and solar powered sites to power the refrigeration systems that are necessary to keep vaccines at the proper temperature. He is the recipient of a 2020 Scholar in Residence award at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Bellagio, Italy.

Professor Ben-Horin received his medical and Gastroenterology training in Israel and was a Post-Doc scientist in immunology at Columbia University Presbyterian Hospital in New-York, USA. Prof. Ben-Horin specializes in inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). He is the Chief of the Gastroenterology Department at Sheba Medical Center, Israel, a Full Professor of Medicine at the Tel-Aviv University, and an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the Sun Yat-Sen University Hospital, Guangzhou, China, where he worked as a visiting professor for one year in 2015-2016. He has served as a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Crohn’s & Colitis Organization (ECCO) and is presently the Chair of the Israeli IBD Society.

Prof. Ben-Horin has published over 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers and is a member of the Editorial Board of the journals Gut, APT and JCC. Prof. Ben-Horin is also the Director of IBD-passport: A web-based global non-for-profit support program for traveling IBD patients.

Prof. Yehuda Shoenfeld, the founder of the Zabludowicz Center for Autoimmune Diseases at the Sheba Medical Center, is a truly unique person: he is a world leader in the research and treatment of autoimmune diseases, with more than 2,150 publications in leading scientific journals and a citation index exceeding 2600.

Prof. Shoenfeld is one of Israel’s top physicians and scientists, dedicating his life to two fields: autoimmunity and public health. He has already been awarded 24 prizes for his contributions to these fields, including the Eular 2005 award and the Ometz 2016 prize.

Dr. Kane is a Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota. She has a busy clinical practice that reflects her expertise in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which is also the focus of her research work encompassing new therapies, gender-specific issues, and medication adherence. Amongst many leadership positions that she holds within Mayo Clinic is the Assistant Chair of Patient Experience within the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and Physician Chair of the Mayo Quality Academy Fellow Subcommittee; the pinnacle of Dr. Kane’s leadership journey was being President of the American College of Gastroenterology in 2018-2019. She also just completed a 5-year service on the Gastroenterology Specialty Council of the American Board of Internal Medicine.

Certified rheumatologist, clinician, and researcher in the field of autoimmune rheumatic diseases.

Prof. Shovman works as a senior rheumatologist in the Zabludowicz Center for Autoimmune Diseases, the Rheumatology unit, and the Institute for Medical Screening of the Sheba Medical Center.

Prof. Shovman is an associate clinical professor at the Tel-Aviv University. She has published many papers in the field of clinical rheumatology and novel laboratory approaches for the diagnosis of autoimmune rheumatic diseases.

Certified dermatologist, clinician and researcher specializing in psoriasis comorbidities and data mining techniques.

Dr. Shapiro is the manager of the Tele-dermatology service in Maccabi healthcare services.

He started as a computer programmer and database analyst before completing his residency in dermatology and his career was based on combining his knowledge and experience in both fields.

Certified pediatric gastroenterologist, clinician, and researcher specializing in Celiac Disease at KSM (Kahn-Sagol-Maccabi), the research and innovation center of Maccabi Healthcare Services.

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