Shimon Glick

Shimon M. Glick is an American-born Israeli physician.

Personal life

Glick was born in New Jersey. He and his wife Brenda have six children including Yehuda Glick who is a rabbi and former Knesset member.

He did his medical training at Yale University Medical Center
Residency Mount Sinai Hospital Internal Medicine in New York.
Research fellow, Endocrinology, at the Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital in the laboratory of Berson and Yalow.
First to Isolate Growth Hormone – with Jesse Roth MD
First to measure Growth Hormone – with Jesse Roth MD
First to discover Growth Hormone – Insulin relationship with Jesse Roth MD
Before moving to Israel in 1974, Glick was Chief of Medical Services at the Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn
Clinical Professor of Medicine at Downstate Medical Center.
Gussie Krupp Chair of Internal Medicine – 1977
Chairmam of Department of Medicine Soroka Medical Center, Beer Sheba, Israel 1974–1997
President of Israel Society of Endocrinology 1979–82
Dean of Ben Gurion University School of Heath Sciences 1986–1990
Lord Immanuel Jakobavitz Chair of Medical Ethics – 1985
Ombudsman of Israel Health ministry 1997–2008
Director of Center of Medical Education – Ben Gurion University
Distinguished Citizen Award Beer Sheba 2012
Considered World Leader in Medical Ethics and Medical Education
Editor of Israel Journal of Medical Science 1974–97

2014 Bonei Zion (Builders of Zion) Prize
Member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States
1955 - The Mitchell Prize - Best qualified in Departments of Medicine - State University of NY
1984 - Newman Award - on his courageous stand during The Doctors Strike
1988- Outstanding Scientist - Samuel & Paula Elklis
2004 - Lifelong Achievement Award - Israel Health Ministry
2012 - Lifelong Achievement Award - Israel Society of Internal Medicine
2014 - Lifelong Achievement Award - "Bonei Zion" Nefesh BeNefesh

Immunoassay of Human Growth Hormone in Plasma, authored together with doctors Jesse Roth, Rosalyn S. Yalow & Solomon A. Berson.