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Prof. Itai Pessach
Deputy Director, Integrated Medical Center & Head of the Children's Hospital
Sheba Medical Center
In this boardroom roundtable, international expert Professor Pessach will explore how large, complex health systems can embed and scale innovation while maintaining operational excellence. Drawing on his leadership at Sheba Medical Centre, he will share how innovation—across digital health, care models, and organisational design—can strengthen system performance, with crisis moments acting as accelerators.
This roundtable will address:
• How to build a culture that enables innovation in large, risk-sensitive organisations
• Scaling digital health, AI, and new models of care across an entire system
• Aligning leadership, governance, and strategy to support continuous transformation
• Using periods of disruption as opportunities to fast-track innovation
• What leaders can do to enable—not hinder—innovation at scale.
OUR INTERNATIONAL GUEST SPEAKER
Prof. Itai
Pessach, MD & PHD, Deputy Director General of Sheba Medical Centre
Director of the
Edmond and Lily Safra Children’s Hospital.
Senior
Physician, The Claudio Cohen Department of Paediatric Intensive Care,
Sheba Medical
Centre, Tel-HaShomer, Israel, Senior Lecturer, Tel Aviv University,
Chairman of the
Resuscitation Committee, Sheba Medical Centre
Dr. Pessach is
a paediatric intensive care physician, immunologist, and
physician-scientist
with extensive clinical, academic, and leadership experience.
He completed
his residency in paediatrics at the Edmond and Lily Safra
Children’s
Hospital, Sheba Medical Centre, and went on to pursue advanced
subspecialty
training in immunology and allergy at Boston Children’s Hospital,
Harvard Medical
School, USA.
Dr. Pessach
graduated with honours from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,
Faculty of
Health Sciences, and received his PhD with highest honours in
biochemistry
and immunology from the same institution. Following his return to
Israel, he
undertook specialist training in paediatric intensive care at Sheba
Medical Centre.
In addition to
his clinical responsibilities, Dr. Pessach is a member of the Talpiot
Medical
Leadership Program for developing future leaders in Israeli medicine.
He is a
renowned researcher with numerous scientific publications and serves as
a consultant to
start-up companies developing innovative technologies in the
field of
paediatric intensive care and immunology.