Prof. Ygal Plakht is an associate professor in the Department of Nursing, and a director of the Recanati School for Community Health Professions, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. He graduated with a Bachelor of Nursing (BN) in 1998 and obtained a PhD in Epidemiology from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in 2009. His research interests include the epidemiology of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disorders, the utilization of hospital emergency health services, major expertise and techniques in the lab, and the management and statistical analysis of hospital data.