Senior oral & maxillofacial pathologist, Barzilai University Medical Centre, Israel; Senior lecturer in Pathology Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev Beer Sheba; Director of the Health Research Department, Chief Scientist Office, Ministry of Health, Israel. Bsc. Med 1993 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, DMD, Hebrew University and Hadassah Medical Centre, Jerusalem, 1995; specialist in oral 7 maxillofacial pathologies Tel Aviv University and Sheba Medical Centre, 2009, cum laude; PhD in pharmaceutical sciences, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2016. 2016–Present: oral & maxillofacial pathologist. Main research interests include oral malignant and premalignant lesions, and salivary gland pathology.