Marek Glezerman

Marek Glezerman was born in 1945 in Bishkek

Glezerman was born on January 1, 1945, in Frunze, today Bishkek, where his parents had fled from the Nazis. The family moved between displaced persons camps, came to Israel in 1949 and later returned to Germany. They settled in Frankfurt, where he finished high school.

He studied medicine at Goethe University in Frankfurt and at the University of Paris. In 1972 he immigrated to Israel. He worked at the Institute of Endocrinology at Sheba, trained in obstetrics and gynecology at Zahalon Hospital in Jaffa, and did a fellowship in Munich.

At Soroka Medical Center in Beer Sheva he founded units for gynecological oncology, urogynecology and assisted reproduction, and introduced a quality improvement system. He later chaired obstetrics and gynecology there and at Ben Gurion University, where he became a full professor in 1991.

From 1997 to 2005 he headed obstetrics and gynecology at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon, where he co-founded the first center in Israel for victims of sexual assault. In 2005 he moved to Rabin Medical Center, heading its women's hospital and serving as deputy director.

In 2009 he co-founded the Israel Society for Gender and Sex Conscious Medicine, and from 2010 to 2017 he was president of the International Society of Gender Medicine. After 2012 he directed a research center for gender medicine at Rabin until 2022. He has written or edited 8 books.