Prof. Varda Shalev joined the Board of Directors in September 2023.

Prof. Shalev has been a Managing Partner at Team8 Health since 2022, and a Co-Founder and Advisory Board Member at Alike.Health since 2020. She also serves as a Full Professor of Epidemiology at the Tel Aviv University School of Public Health. In the past two decades, Prof. Shalev served in various senior executive roles at Maccabi Health Services, including most recently until 2020 as Head of the Research and Innovation Institute.

Prof. Shalev has served on the board of directors of BATM Advanced Communications Ltd. since 2018. From 2021 to 2023, she served on the board of directors of Pluristem Therapeutics, Inc., and from 2022 to 2023 on the board of directors of Novolog Pharma Up 1996 Ltd.

Prof. Shalev received her M.D. from the School of Medicine at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, a Master of Public Health Administration from Clark University in the United States, and completed her post-doctoral fellowship in Medical Informatics at Johns Hopkins University.

Prof. Shalev serves as a member of our Compliance, and Science and Technology Committees.