Leading researchers, healthcare professionals and supporters will gather at the Rambam Health Care Campus for its annual summit on May 29-31st where they will showcase some of the most exciting innovations and solutions to the global strategic challenges facing cardiovascular innovations and digital health.

The campus will host prominent practitioners, researchers and philanthropists from around the world to see first-hand the hospital’s advances in modern medicine, its steadfast promotion of coexistence and the exciting vision for the future of the hospital and the region. Several hundred participants from around the world participate in this leading conference.

The conference culminates with a gala reception and ceremony where the Rambam Award will be given. The Rambam Award recognizes remarkable individuals for their contributions to medicine, science and technology, as well as their passion and special generosity to the State of Israel. This year’s recipients will be: Prof. William Brody, ‫ the former president of the Salk Institute who will be recognized for innovations in the treatment of cardiovascular disease; Prof. Eric Topol of the Scripps Translational Institute, for his work on digitizing and democratizing medicine; and Sandor Frankel and The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, Prof. Yuval Noah Harari, the best-selling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, will speak about what he describes as the future of medicine: the changing focus from healing the sick, to “upgrading” the healthy

Participants will also be shown cutting-edge technological capabilities such as a robotic cardiac surgery and optogenetic treatments of abnormal heartbeats. Attendees will also have the opportunity to explore the Rambam hospital, including a tour of the Samy Ofer Underground Fortified Emergency Hospital.

“We see the annual summit as the apex of Rambam’s year-round commitment to medical research and innovation,” beamed Director General of Rambam Rafi Beyar, “the best and latest of cutting-edge medical technologies are presented at the conference, as well as the methods and practices that make up the digital medicine frontier. Rambam is more than just a hospital. We believe that to best serve our constituents, we must always be leading the way in developing a bright future for the community.”

Beyar added that “The story of one of the recipients, Prof. William Brody, who already in 2001 inaugurated with Professor Beyar when he was the Dean of Johns Hopkins a successful joint program between the university and the Technion in Medicine and Biomedical Engineering exemplifies how such collaboration benefits both countries.”

Rambam Health Care Campus is a 1,000-bed academic hospital serving the over 2 million residents of Northern Israel. Providing comprehensive medical services in all medical specialties, Rambam is the tertiary referral center for 12 district hospitals. Rambam Health Care Campus’s garage can be converted into a 2,000-bed full-service underground hospital, the largest in the world. In addition to the citizens of Northern Israel, Rambam serves the IDF Northern Command, UN Peacekeeping Forces, and the US 6th Fleet. Many of Rambam’s physicians participate in cutting-edge research projects to bring new therapies and treatments not only to their patients, but the greater community of the world.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)