CURRICULUM VITAE
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Education |
1993 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Be'er-Sheva, Israel B.Sc. Industrial Engineering and Management (Information Systems) Final Project: Master Plan for Information System in Publishing house. Advisor: Dr. Ran Giladi. 1996 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Be'er-Sheva, Israel M.Sc. Business and Management 2003 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Be'er-Sheva, Israel Ph.D. Industrial Engineering and Management (Human Performance/Human Factors Engineering) Ph.D. Thesis: Scheduling of Activities and Responding to Alarms in the Control of a Complex System. Advisors: Prof. David Shinar, Prof. Ehud Zmora, and Prof. Joachim Meyer. Developed and tested a conceptual model that describes operators’ work in complex environments. As test case for the model served the work of nurses in a neonate intensive care unit. Dissertation title: Scheduling of Activities and Responding to Alarms in the Control of a Complex System. |
Employment History |
2020–present Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Be'er-Sheva, Israel
Senior Lecturer, Department of Health Policy and Management 2015–2020 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Be'er-Sheva, Israel Senior Lecturer, Department of Industrial Engineering & Management 2003–2015 70-Trees Tel-Aviv, Israel / Chicago, IL, USA Independent Management Consultant 2000–2003 Babylon.com Or-Yehuda, Israel Vice President of Operations 1998–2000 Sivan Training and Systems LTD. Tel-Aviv, Israel Chief Technology Officer and Business Development 1996–1998 Mentortech Inc. (Mashov) Or-Yehuda, Israel/New-York, NY, USA Vice President of Development and Operations 1993–1996 Bitan United Multimedia LTD. Tel-Aviv, Israel Co-Founder and General Manager 1991–1993 Ofek Technology Consulting LTD. Nes-Ziona, Israel Human Factors Engineer |
Research Positions |
2016- 2022 University of Toronto Toronto, ON, Canada
Assistant Professor (status only), Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering 2015 University of Toronto Toronto, ON, Canada Post Doctoral Fellow – Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering 2013–2015 University Health Network Toronto, ON, Canada Research Associate – HumanEra 2004–2006 University of Chicago Chicago, IL, USA Research Associate – Cognitive Technologies Laboratory 1998–2001 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Be'er-Sheva, Israel Coordinator of Laboratory and Field Research 1990–1993 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Be'er-Sheva, Israel Research and Teaching Assistant |
Courses Taught |
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Be'er-Sheva, Israel
2012–present Department of Health Policy and Management Implementing Human Factors in the Healthcare, MHA 2015–2020 Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Introduction to Decision Making, B. Sc. 2015–2019 Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Human Computer Interaction, B. Sc. 2018–2021 Department of Industrial Engineering and Management in collaboration with McGill University, Montreal, Canada Technology Business Plan Project, B. Sc. 2020–present Department of Health Policy and Management Decision Making in Healthcare Systems, B. A. 2021–present Department of Health Policy and Management Decision Making in Complex Healthcare Systems, MHA Tel Aviv-Yaffo Academic College Tel-Aviv, Israel 2013 Department of Information Systems Management Man-Machine Interface, B.A. |
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES |
2022- present Head of the research committee – School of Public Health at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
2022- present Head of the library committee – Faculty of Health Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. 2022- present Member of the communication committee – School of Cognitive Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. 2021- present Director of SimReC - The research center for simulation in healthcare at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. 2020-present Member of the research committee at the Israeli national paramedic service (EMS) (Magen-David-Adom). 2019- 2021 HFES Health Care Technical Group, awards co-chair. 2019-2021 Member of the IEA2021 scientific committee. 2014-2020 Member of the International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care program committee. 2007-2008 Member of the committee for alarms in healthcare at the Standards Institution of Israel. |