Shimon Glick

Shimon (Seymour) M. Glick (שמעון גליק; born 1932) is an American-born Israeli physician.

Personal life
Glick was born in New Jersey. He and his wife Brenda have six children including Yehuda Glick who is a rabbi and former Knesset member.

Career
Glick is a graduate of SUNY Downstate Medical Center.
 * He did his medical training (internship, residency) at Yale University Medical Center
 * Residency Mount Sinai Hospital Internal Medicine in New York.
 * Research fellow, Endocrinology, at the Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital in the laboratory of Berson and Yalow (Nobel Laureate).
 * First to Isolate Growth Hormone – with Jesse Roth MD
 * First to measure Growth Hormone – with Jesse Roth MD
 * First to discover Growth Hormone – Insulin relationship with Jesse Roth MD
 * Before moving to Israel in 1974, Glick was Chief of Medical Services at the Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn
 * Clinical Professor of Medicine at Downstate Medical Center.
 * Gussie Krupp Chair of Internal Medicine – 1977
 * Chairmam of Department of Medicine Soroka Medical Center, Beer Sheba, Israel 1974–1997
 * President of Israel Society of Endocrinology 1979–82
 * Dean of Ben Gurion University School of Heath Sciences 1986–1990
 * Lord Immanuel Jakobavitz Chair of Medical Ethics – 1985
 * Ombudsman of Israel Health ministry 1997–2008
 * Director of Center of Medical Education – Ben Gurion University
 * Distinguished Citizen Award Beer Sheba 2012
 * Considered World Leader in Medical Ethics and Medical Education
 * Editor of Israel Journal of Medical Science 1974–97

Awards and honors

 * 2014 Bonei Zion (Builders of Zion) Prize
 * Member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States
 * 1955 - The Mitchell Prize - Best qualified in Departments of Medicine - State University of NY
 * 1984 - Newman Award - on his courageous stand during The Doctors Strike
 * 1988- Outstanding Scientist - Samuel & Paula Elklis
 * 2004 - Lifelong Achievement Award - Israel Health Ministry
 * 2012 - Lifelong Achievement Award - Israel Society of Internal Medicine
 * 2014 - Lifelong Achievement Award - "Bonei Zion" Nefesh BeNefesh

Works

 * Immunoassay of Human Growth Hormone in Plasma (August 1963), authored together with doctors Jesse Roth, Rosalyn S. Yalow & Solomon A. Berson.
 * Loss of Antigen-Antibody Affinity with Storage of Antiserum at —20 C  (September 1973)