Shimon Glick

Shimon M. Glick (born 1932) is an American-born Israeli physician.

Glick was a founding member of the Faculty of Medicine at Ben Gurion University, and former Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences.^[1]

Personal life

Glick was born in New Jersey.^[2] Shimon and his wife Brenda, a school teacher, are the parents of 6 children, including Yehuda Glick.

Glick is a political moderate. In 1988 he told a reporter from the New York Times that Israel should be willing to trade land for peace, "We would give up Jewish land not with a sigh of relief, like taking off a tight pair of shoes, but rather with the anguish of an amputation. It would be a painful sacrifice, but we would be willing to consider it."^[3]

Career

Glick is a graduate of SUNY Downstate Medical Center.^[4] He did his medical training (internship, residency) at Yale University Medical Center and at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. He then served as a research fellow at the Bronx Veterans Administration Hospitalin the laboratory of Berson and Yalow (Nobel Laureate).^[4] Before moving to Israel in 1974, Glick was Chief of Medical Services at the Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn and Clinical Professor of Medicine at Downstate Medical Center.^[5]

Awards and Honors

• 2014 Bonei Zion (Builders of Zion) Prize^[1]
• Member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States

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