Amitai Ziv

Amitai Ziv was born in 1958 in Jerusalem

Ziv was born in Jerusalem to parents who immigrated from Canada. He grew up in the Beit HaKerem neighborhood and attended the Hebrew University Secondary School.

He served in the Israeli Air Force as a combat pilot and flight instructor. There he first encountered training based on simulation.

He earned his medical degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1989 and trained in pediatrics at Hadassah from 1993 to 1996. From 1996 to 1998 he specialized in adolescent medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He later earned a master's degree in health administration from Tel Aviv University in 2003.

In the United States he helped develop simulation tests for foreign doctors and joined the startup MedSim in 1998, where he set up a simulation center in Philadelphia. In 2000 he became a deputy director at Sheba Medical Center, and in 2001 he founded MSR there. The center trains medical teams from hospitals, health funds, the IDF Medical Corps and Magen David Adom.

At Tel Aviv University he became associate professor and head of the Department of Medical Education in 2010. In 2016 he was appointed director of the Rehabilitation Hospital at Sheba. He received the Charles Bronfman Prize in 2007.