Shai Linn – Full Professor, University of Haifa, Israel.Physician and epidemiologist. Two medical specialties: Public Health and Health Management. Received an M.D. degree from Hebrew University, MPH, and Dr PH both from Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.Deputy Medical Director of the Rambam Hospital (1982-1985), head of the medical record committee at the Rambam Medical Center (1982-1989, 1992-1998), head of the Unit of Epidemiology (1993-2010) at the Rambam Medical Center and head of medical informatics at the Faculty of Medicine of the Technion in various capacities. Served as a Visiting Scientist at the U.S. National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland (USA). Received a grant from the well known MacArthur Foundation, Social Science Research Council for studying the human cost of war injuries (1990-1992). Visiting Professor at the University of North Carolina, USA (1986) and the University of British Columbia, Canada (1990-1992). Consultant at the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics in Maryland, USA (1985-1986) and to the World Bank (1998) and the AIDS Center in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (2000). Epidemiologist of the Israel Transplant Center (1999). Was a member of several Israel National Medical Councils. Founder and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the Technion (1992-1999). Founder and Chair of the Department of Public Health at the University of Haifa (2003-2007). Dean of the Faculty for Social Welfare and Health Sciences at the University of Haifa (2010-2016). Published extensively in leading journals, an instructor of 67 students for higher degrees.