Speaker: Prof. Raphi Walden
Join us for a conversation with Prof. Raphi Walden, a vascular surgeon and deputy medical director of Sheba Medical Center, faculty member at Tel Aviv U. School of Medicine, and president of Physicians for Human Rights in Israel. Prof. Walden will address the current state of health care in Israel, pressures and shortages in the health system that are seriously impacting delivery to all Israelis, inequities between the center and periphery in Israel, including the disadvantage suffered by Israelis in the South. Prof. Walden, whose organization, sends a mobile medical clinic each weekend to the Palestinian areas in the West Bank, will also address the de-development and under-development of the Palestinian health care system in the West Bank and Gaza that is impacting overall regional health. Prof. Walden will also give a brief overview of the history of Physicians for Human Rights and how it engages world-renown medical professionals in its work. He will be joined by his wife, Prof. Tsvia Peres Walden, and by Ran Goldstein, director of Physicians for Human Rights in Israel.
