# Shlomi Codish

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## TL;DR

Internal medicine physician and medical informatics specialist who leads Soroka University Medical Center in Beersheba, the largest hospital in southern Israel.

## Summary

Prof. Shlomi Codish leads Soroka University Medical Center in Beersheba as Director General. Soroka is a Clalit Health Services hospital with about 1,191 beds, the teaching hospital of Ben-Gurion University's Faculty of Health Sciences and the only major medical centre and Level 1 trauma centre for the roughly one million residents of the Negev; it is home to the Legacy Heritage Oncology Center and Dr Larry Norton Institute. Codish is an internal medicine physician who trained at Ben-Gurion University and Soroka, completed postdoctoral training in medical informatics at Yale, and previously served as Soroka's Deputy Director General and as Medical Director of Clalit's Southern District.

## Fields

- Kind: Person
- Last checked: 2026-09-10
- Tags: leadership; clinician-scientist; hospital-management
- Role: Director General, Soroka University Medical Center
- Specialisms: Internal medicine; Medical informatics; Hospital management

## Sources

- Source: Wikipedia article on Soroka Medical Center naming the director general: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soroka_Medical_Center
- Source: Wikipedia biography of Shlomi Codish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomi_Codish

## Connected records

- institutions: [Soroka University Medical Center](https://onco.cc/institutions/soroka-medical-center/)

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