Shimon Glick

American-born Israeli physician (born 1932)

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

Personal life

Glick was born in New Jersey.^[1] He and his wife Brenda have six children including Yehuda Glick who is a rabbi and former Knesset member.

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).^[2]
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^{[citation needed]}
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.^[3]
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^[4]
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

2014 Bonei Zion (Builders of Zion) Prize^[5]
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

Immunoassay of Human Growth Hormone in Plasma (August 1963), authored together with doctors Jesse Roth, Rosalyn S. Yalow & Solomon A. Berson.^[6]
Loss of Antigen-Antibody Affinity with Storage of Antiserum at —20 C (September 1973)^[7]

^ Friedman, Adolph. "Interview with Shimon The Endocrine Society Oral History Collection The Clark Sawin Library SHIMON M. GLICK, MD Interview conducted by Adolph Friedman, MD April 2, 2000" (PDF). The Endocrine Society Oral History Collection The Clark Sawin Library. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
^ ^a ^b "Articles by Shimon Glick in MercatorNet". www.mercatornet.com. Archived from the original on 2013-05-27.
^ "Shimon Glick". JCT. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
^ "Faculty of Health Sciences - Professor Shimon Glick, MD". in.bgu.ac.il. Ben Gurion University. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
^ "Western immigrants honored at Knesset award ceremony". The Times of Israel.
^ Glick, S. M.; Roth, J.; Yalow, R. S.; Berson, S. A. (24 August 1963). "Immunoassay of Human Growth Hormone in Plasma". Nature. 199 (4895): 784–787. Bibcode:1963Natur.199..784G. doi:10.1038/199784a0. PMID 14071191. S2CID 4147784. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
^ "Loss of Antigen-Antibody Affinity with Storage of Antiserum at —20 C". academic.oup.com. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Volume 37, Issue 3, 1 September 1973, Pages 461–462. Retrieved 19 May 2023.