Marek Glezerman

Marek Glezerman (born January 1, 1945) is an Israeli obstetrician and gynecologist. Today Glezerman is a Professor Emeritus of Obstetrics and Gynecology and head of Gender Medicine at the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University. He is currently chair of the Ethics Committee at the Sackler School of Medicine, director of the Research Center for Gender Medicine at the Rabin Medical Center, founding president of the Israel Society for Gender Medicine and president of the International Society for Gender Medicine. He has been head of The Helen Schneider Hospital for Women at Rabin Medical Center. Glezerman is also a member of the Ministry of Health's National Council for Obstetrics and Gynecology, Genetics and Perinatology as well as a member of the Advisory Council for Gynecological Oncology and on the Advisory Council for Andrology in the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO). He is an expert in gender-based medicine.

Glezerman studied initially medicine, psychology and philosophy at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, continued his medical studies at the Université de Paris and completed his studies of medicine at Goethe University. In the early 70s Glezerman immigrated to Israel, settled in Tel Aviv and performed his post graduate studies at Tel Aviv University. He did fellowships and sabbaticals at the Weizmann Institute of Scienceain Rehovot, Israel and in Germany, Spain, Canada, and the United States in different fields. In 1986 Glezerman was appointed to the position of associate professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negeve in Beersheba, Israel, and was promoted to full professor in 1991. He served as the Deichman-Lerner Chair of obstetrics and gynecology in Beersheba and later as the Emma Fein Chair for obstetrics and gynecology in Tel Aviv. He also served as vice dean of the faculty of health sciences and vice director of the post graduate school of medicine, both at Ben-Gurion University.

He later directed the Gynecology and Obstetrics Department at the Wolfson Medical Center in Holon and from 2005 until his retirement he was head of the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Beilinson Hospital and Hasharon Hospital and deputy director of the Rabin Medical Center. Glezerman founded and is currently director of the Research Center for Gender Medicine at the Rabin Medical Center. He served for fourteen years as chair of the National Steering Committee of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Maccabi Healthcare Services.

In 2010 Glezerman received the Athena Award from The Foundation for Gendered Medicine for “leadership in the science of gender-specific medicine".

Glezerman has published five books on the topics of obstetrics and gynecology and will publish his sixth book in the summer of 2016. He has published hundreds of papers spanning the topics of fertility, obstetrics and gynecology.

Marek Glezerman lives in Israel, is married and has three daughters and five grandchildren.

• Lunenfeld B, Glezerman M. Diagnose und Therapie, männlicher Fertilitätsstörungen. Berlin, Grosse Verlag, 1981.
• Glezerman M, Jecht E (eds.). Varicocele and Male Infertility II. Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York-Tokyo, 1984.
• Glezerman M e al Placebo controlled trial of topical interferon in labial and genital herpes reduces frequency of recurrences in labial and genital herpes: Double blind placebo controlled and phase IV trials. Lancet 1:150-152, 1988.
• Lunenfeld B, Insler V, Glezerman M. Diagnosis and treatment of functional infertility. Completely revised edition. Berliner Medizinische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin,1993
• Glezerman M et al.: A model of efficient and continuous quality improvement in a clinical setting. Int J for Quality in Health Care. 11: 227-232,1999.
• Glezerman, Marek. "Five years to the term breech trial: the rise and fall of a randomized controlled trial." American journal of obstetrics and gynecology 194.1 (2006): 20-25.
• Glezerman M. Gender Medicine. Overlook 2016