Nachman Ash

Personal Information /
  • 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 inPoliticalSciences (2005)
  • Military rank: Brigadier General (Ret.)
  • University degree: Senior lecturer (Ariel University)
  • Medical domain: Internal Medicine, Medical Informatics

Education / 1979-1985Sackler school of medicine, Tel-Aviv university, ISRAEL
1999-2001 Harvard-MIT Division of Health, Sciences and Technology,
Boston, USA
2004-2005 The National Defense University and University of Haifa
Experience / 1986 Recruitment to Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
1987-1991Combat physician in battalion and brigade.
1991-1993First part of residency in internal medicine Sheba medical center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel.
1993-1995Medical officer of a Division.
1995-1997Second part of residency.
1997-1999 Head of medical branch, medical corps, IDF
1999-2001MS 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
  1. 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
  1. 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
  1. 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.
  1. 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.
  1. 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
  1. 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
  1. 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
  1. Zeng Q, Kogan S, Ash N, Greenes RA. Patient and clinician vocabulary: how different are they? Medinfo 2001;10:399-403.
  1. 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
  1. Kogan S, Zeng Q, Greenes RA, Ash N. Problems and challenges in patient information retrieval: a descriptive study. Proc AMIA Symp. 2001:329-33
  1. 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
  1. 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.
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  1. 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.
  1. 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.
  1. 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.
  1. 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.
  1. 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.
  1. 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.
  1. 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.
  1. 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.
  1. 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.
  1. Kreiss Y, Vinker S, Ash N. The Israel Defense Forces medical corps field hospital in Haiti. Harefuah. 2010;149(3):129-30.
  1. 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.
  1. 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.
  1. 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.
  1. 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.
  1. 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.
  1. 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.
  1. 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.
  1. 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.
  1. 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):313-4
  1. 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
  1. 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.
  1. 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]
  1. Topaz M, Ash N. Overview of the U.S. Policies for Health Information Technology and Lessons learned for Israel. Harefuah, in print.
  1. Zelingher J, Ash N. Data coding in the Israeli Healthcare System - Do choices provide the answers to our system's needs? Harefuah, in print.
  1. Ash N, Levy I. Health Information Technology – where are we heading? Harefua, in print.
  1. Ash N. The American Medical Informatics Association annual symposium – transforming Health and Healthcare - Chicago, IL, USA 3 – 7 Nov 2012. Harefua, in print.

Awards / 2001 Student paper competition finalsit, AMIA conference, Washington DC, Nov. 2001
Presentations /
  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

Memberships in Proffesional organizations /
  1. American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
  2. Israeli Association of Medical Informatics (ILAMI)