Ronnie Tepper

Ronnie Tepper was born in 1950 in Rishon LeZion

Tepper was born in 1950 in Rishon LeZion and grew up there. His father, Zeev, was a citrus grower and beekeeper from one of the families that founded the town. His mother, Hana, was born in Satu Mare.

He served in the Israeli Air Force as a fighter pilot in a Skyhawk squadron and fought in the Yom Kippur War. During the First Lebanon War his plane was hit by a missile over Syria, and he landed it safely. He linked this to earlier simulator training, which led him to promote simulation for medical teams.

After leaving career service in 1974 he studied medicine at the Sackler School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University and graduated with honors in 1981. From 1992 to 2018 he headed the ultrasound unit in the obstetrics and gynecology department at Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba.

He founded and ran an academic ultrasound school from 1996 to 2021 and chaired the Israeli society for obstetric and gynecologic ultrasound from 2010 to 2013. In 2007 he founded Simultek, the medical simulation center of Clalit Health Services. He wrote about 186 scientific papers and is listed as inventor of about 46 patents.

He is married to Michal, a psychoanalyst, and has two daughters. He lives in Herzliya.