Marek Glezerman

Glezerman has published five books on the topics of obstetrics and gynecology and will publish his sixth book in the summer of 2016. He has published hundreds of papers spanning the topics of fertility, obstetrics and gynecology.

In 2010 Glezerman received the Athena Award from The Foundation for Gendered Medicine for “leadership in the science of gender-specific medicine".

He later directed the Gynecology and Obstetrics Department at the Wolfson Medical Center in Holon and from 2005 until his retirement he was head of the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Beilinson Hospital and Hasharon Hospital and deputy director of the Rabin Medical Center. Glezerman founded and served as the director of the Research Center for Gender Medicine at the Rabin Medical Center until 2014. He served for fourteen years as chair of the National Steering Committee of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Maccabi Healthcare Services.

Glezerman studied initially medicine, psychology and philosophy at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, continued his medical studies at the Université de Paris and completed his studies of medicine at Goethe University. In the early 70s Glezerman immigrated to Israel, settled in Tel Aviv and performed his post graduate studies at Tel Aviv University. He did fellowships and sabbaticals at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel and in Germany, Spain, Canada, and the United States in different fields. In 1986 Glezerman was appointed to the position of associate professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba, Israel, and was promoted to full professor in 1991. He served as the Deichman-Lerner Chair of obstetrics and gynecology in Beersheba and later as the Emma Fein Chair for obstetrics and gynecology in Tel Aviv. He also served as vice dean of the faculty of health sciences and vice director of the post graduate school of medicine, both at Ben-Gurion University. After founding and heading the unit of gynecological oncology at Soroka Medical Center in Beer Sheba, he served for 8 years as the chairman of the division of obstetrics and gynecology.

Marek Glezerman (born January 1, 1945) is an Israeli obstetrician and gynecologist.