Dr Mitchell Schwaber

Professor Schwaber is the director of the National Center for Infection Control of the Israel Ministry of Health. A native of Boston, MA, United States of America, he pursued his medical studies at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, medical residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem, Israel, and training in infectious diseases and epidemiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Harvard School of Public Health, in Boston. In addition to his duties with the Ministry of Health, he practices internal and infectious diseases medicine at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Maccabi Healthcare Services, is Professor of Medicine at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University and is a reserve officer in the Medical Corps of the Israel Defense Forces.  He serves on several World Health Organization (WHO) expert advisory panels and is chair of the WHO Infection Prevention and Control Guidelines Development Group.