Shimon Glick
# Shimon Glick

Shimon (Seymour) M. Glick (Hebrew: שמעון גליק; born 1932) 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.

## Career

Glick is a graduate of SUNY Downstate Medical Center.

* He did his medical training (internship, residency) 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 (Nobel Laureate).
* 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

## Awards and honors

* 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

## Works

* Immunoassay of Human Growth Hormone in Plasma (August 1963), authored together with doctors Jesse Roth, Rosalyn S. Yalow & Solomon A. Berson.
* Loss of Antigen-Antibody Affinity with Storage of Antiserum at —20 C (September 1973)
