Nachman Ash
Personal
Information
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Education
1979-1985
Marital status: married + 3
Nationality: ISRAEL
DOB: 21/2/61
Place of Birth: Petah-Tikva, ISRAEL
Degree: M.D. (1988), M.S. in Medical Informatics (2001), MA in Political
Sciences (2005)
 Military rank: Brigadier General (Ret.)
 University degree: Senior lecturer (Ariel University)
 Medical domain: Internal Medicine, Medical Informatics
1999-2001
2004-2005
1986
Experience
1987-1991
1991-1993
1993-1995
1995-1997
1997-1999
Sackler school of medicine, Tel-Aviv
university, ISRAEL
Harvard-MIT Division of Health, Sciences and Technology,
Boston, USA
The National Defense University and University of Haifa
Recruitment to Israel Defense
Forces (IDF).
Combat physician in battalion and brigade.
First part of residency in internal medicine
Sheba medical center, Tel-Hashomer,
Israel.
Medical officer of a Division.
Second part of residency.
Head of medical branch, medical corps, IDF
1999-2001
MS studies in Medical Informatics, Harvard-MIT,
Boston, USA
2001- 2003
Chief Medical Officer, southern command, IDF
2003-2004
Clinical work at the Sheba Medical Center
2004-2005
National Defense College
2005-2007
Deputy Surgeon General, MC, IDF
2007- 2011
Surgeon General of the IDF
2012 Deputy Director General for Health Informatics,
Ministry of Health
2012 Senior faculty member, Ariel University Center of
Samaria
Publications
1. Ash N, Lubetsky A, Ezra D, Olchovsky D, Atrial septal defect
and embolic stroke in young adults. Harefuah 1992;123:91-94
2. Ash N, Salai M, Aphter S, Olchovsky D, Primary psoas’ abscess
due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus concurrent
with septic arthritis of the hip joint. South Med J
1995;88:863-865
3. Ash N, Cohen Y, Liokumovich P, Wollner A, Acute interstitial
pneumonia: a case of Hamman-Rich syndrome. Isr J Med Sci
1995;31:367-370
4. Margalit M, Ash N, Zimran A, Halkin H. Enzyme replacement
therapy in the management of longstanding skeletal and soft
tissue salmonella infection in a patient with Gaucher’s disease.
Postgrad Med J. 2002;78:564-5.
5. Haviv J, Huerta M, Shpilberg O, Klement E, Ggrotto I, Ash N,
Eldad A, Poisonous animal bites in the Israeli Defense Forces.
Public Health Rev 1998;26:237-245.
6. Haviv J, Huerta M, Shpilberg O, Mimouni D, Ash N, Groto I,
Field treatment of snakebites in the Israel Defence Forces. Public
Health Rev. 1998;26: 247-256
7. Bernstam E, Ash N, Peleg M, Boxwala AA, Mork P, Shortliffe
EH, Greenes RA. Guideline classification to assist modeling,
authoring, Implementation and retrieval. Proc AMIA symp
2000:66-70
8. Peleg M, Boxwala AA, Ogunyemi O, Zeng Q, Tu S, Lacson R,
Bernstam E, Ash N, Mork P, Ohno-Machado L, Shortliffe EH,
Greenes RA. GLIF3: the evolution of a guideline reprentation
format. Proc AMIA Symp 2000:645-9
9. Zeng Q, Kogan S, Ash N, Greenes RA. Patient and clinician
vocabulary: how different are they? Medinfo 2001;10:399-403.
10. Ash N, Ogunyemi O, Zeng Q, Ohno-Machado L. Finding
Appropriate Clinical Trials: evaluating encoded eligibility criteria
with incomplete data. Proc AMIA symp 2001;27-31
11. Kogan S, Zeng Q, Greenes RA, Ash N. Problems and challenges
in patient information retrieval: a descriptive study. Proc AMIA
Symp. 2001:329-33
12. Zeng Q, Kogan S, Ash N, Greenes RA, Boxwala AA.
Characteristics of consumer terminology for health information
retrieval. Methods Inf Med. 2002;41:289-98
13. Ogunyemi OI, Clarke JR. Ash N, Webber BL. Combining
geometric and probabilistic reasoning for computer-based
penetrating-trauma assessment. J Am Med Inform Assoc.
2002;9:273-82.
14. Mandel D, Zimlichman E, Ash N, Mimouni FB, Ezra Y, Kreiss
Y. Quality assessment of primary health care in a military
setting. Mil Med. 2003 Nov;168:890-2.
15. Solomon I, Maharshak N, Chechik G, Leibovici L, Lubetsky A,
Halkin H, Ezra D, Ash N. Applying an artificial neural network to
Warfarin maintenance dose prediction. Isr Med Assoc J.
2004;6:732-5.
16. Weinstein O, Oshry T, Wartenfeld R, Ash N. Shifting patients
from emergency medicine services – a model for operating
regional medical care in the southern region, in the IDF. JIMM
2005;2;55-60.
17. Ben-Galim P, Steinberg EL, Amir H, Ash N, Dekel S, Arbel R.
Accuracy of Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the knee and
unjustified surgery. Clin Orthop relat res. 2006;447:100-104.
18. Gesundheit B, Ash N, Blazer S, Rivkind AI. Medical care for
terrorists--to treat or not to treat? Am J Bioeth. 2009;9:40-2.
19. Shapira SC, Vinker S, Razin E, Ash N. Military tract of medicine-the need and the vision. Harefuah. 2010 Feb;149(2):89-90, 124.
20. Merin O, Ash N, Levy G, Schwaber MJ, Kreiss Y. The Israeli
field hospital in Haiti--ethical dilemmas in early disaster response.
N Engl J Med. 2010;362:e38. Epub 2010 Mar 3.
21. Hazan VM, Balicer RD, Groto I, Zarka S, Ankol OE, Bar-Zeev Y,
Levine H, Ash N. The military role in a flu pandemic. Harefuah.
2010;149:9-13, 64.
22. Kreiss Y, Merin O, Peleg K, Levy G, Vinker S, Sagi R, Abargel
A, Bartal C, Lin G, Bar A, Bar-On E, Schwaber MJ, Ash N. Early
Disaster Response in Haiti: The Israeli Field Hospital Experience.
Ann Intern Med. 2010 Jul 6;153(1):45-8. Epub 2010 May 4.
23. Chaiter Y, Machluf Y, Pirogovsky A, Palma E, Yona A, Shohat
T, Yitzak A, Tal O, Ash N. Quality control and quality assurance
of medical committee performance in the Israel Defense Forces.
Int J Health Care Qual Assur. 2010;23(5):507-15.
24. Ran Y, Yagudaev M, Kosashvili Y, Yegorov Y, Ganor O, Ash N,
Hirschhorn G. Anatomic distribution of bullet head injuries in
combat fatalities. J Trauma. 2010;69(3):541-3.
25. Kreiss Y, Vinker S, Ash N. The Israel Defense Forces medical
corps field hospital in Haiti. Harefuah. 2010;149(3):129-30.
26. Balicer RD, Zarka S, Levine H, Klement E, Sela T, Porat N, Ash
N, Dagan R. Control of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 5
epidemic of severe pneumonia among young army recruits by
mass antibiotic treatment and vaccination. Vaccine.
2010;28(34):5591-6.
27. Ran Y, Hadad E, Daher S, Ganor O, Kohn J, Yegorov Y, Bartal
C, Ash N, Hirschhorn G. QuikClot Combat Gauze use for
hemorrhage control in military trauma: January 2009 Israel
Defense Force experience in the Gaza Strip--a preliminary report
of 14 cases. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2010;25(6):584-8.
28. Oberman AS, Brosh-Nissimov T, Ash N. Medicine and the
Holocaust: a visit to the Nazi death camps as a means of teaching
medical ethics in the Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps. J Med
Ethics. 2010;36(12):821-6. Epub 2010 Oct 28.
29. Levy G, Blumberg N, Kreiss Y, Ash N, Merin O. Application of
information technology within a field hospital deployment
following the January 2010 Haiti earthquake disaster. J Am Med
Inform Assoc. 2010 Nov 1;17(6):626-30.
30. Chaiter Y, Palma E, Machluf Y, Yona A, Cohen A, Pirogovsky
A, Shohat T, Ytzhak A, Ash N. Quality-assuring intervention for
technical medical staff at medical committees. Int J Health Care
Qual Assur. 2011;24(1):19-30.
31. Peleg K, Kreiss Y, Ash N, Lipsky AM. Optimizing medical
response to large-scale disasters: the ad hoc collaborative health
care system. Ann Surg. 2011 Feb;253(2):421-3.
32. Ran Y, Hadad E, Daher S, Ganor O, Yegorov Y, Katzenell U,
Ash N, Hirschhorn G. Triage and air evacuation strategy for mass
casualty events: a model based on combat experience. Mil Med.
2011 Jun;176(6):647-51.
33. Sergeev I, Lipsky AM, Ganor O, Lending G, Abebe-Campino G,
Morose A, Katzenell U, Ash N, Glassberg E.Training modalities
and self-confidence building in performance of life-saving
procedures.Mil Med. 2012 Aug;177(8):901-6.
34. Ash N, Gamzu R. Benchmarking adoption and use of information
and communication technologies in the health sector Paris,
France, 30th-31th January 2012. Harefuah. 2012 May;151(5):3134
35. Katzenell U, Ash N, Tapia AL, Campino GA, Glassberg E.
Analysis of the causes of death of casualties in field military
setting. Mil Med. 2012 Sep;177(9):1065-8
36. Machluf Y, Pirogovsky A, Palma E, Yona A, Navon A, Shohat T,
Yitzak A, Tal O, Ash N, Nachman M, Chaiter Y. Coordinated
computerized systems aimed at management, control, and quality
assurance of medical processes and informatics. Int J Health Care
Qual Assur. 2012;25(8):663-81.
37. Glassberg E, Lipsky AM, Lending G, Sergeev I, Elbaz A, Morose
A, Katzenell U, Ash N. Blood glucose levels as an adjunct for
prehospital field triage. Am J Emerg Med. 2013 Feb 1. doi:pii:
S0735-6757(12)00563-3. 10.1016/j.ajem.2012.10.038. [Epub
ahead of print]
38. Topaz M, Ash N. Overview of the U.S. Policies for Health
Information Technology and Lessons learned for Israel. Harefuah,
in print.
39. Zelingher J, Ash N. Data coding in the Israeli Healthcare
System - Do choices provide the answers to our system's
needs? Harefuah, in print.
40. Ash N, Levy I. Health Information Technology – where are we
heading? Harefua, in print.
41. Ash N. The American Medical Informatics Association annual
symposium – transforming Health and Healthcare - Chicago,
IL, USA 3 – 7 Nov 2012. Harefua, in print.
Awards
Presentations
Memberships in
Proffesional
organizations
2001 Student paper competition finalsit, AMIA conference,
Washington DC, Nov. 2001
1. Finding Appropriate Clinical Trials: evaluating encoded
eligibility criteria with incomplete data. 2001 AMIA
conference, Washington DC, USA
2. Controlled standardized Medical Terminology in the Sheba
Medical Center – evaluating SNOMED CT. 2004, The
annual meeting of the Israeli Association for Medical
Informatics
3. The role of the IDF Medical Corps in Emergency. 2009, The
forth international Jerusalem conference on health policy:
Improving health and healthcare: who is responsible? Who is
accountable?
4. Application of a Computerized Algorithm for Proactive
Identification of Pateints Requiring Special Medical
Attention in a Distributed Primary Care Setting. The 2012
AMIA confrence, Chicago, IL, USA
1. American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
2. Israeli Association of Medical Informatics (ILAMI)