Prof. Dror Dicker

Hasharon Hospital, Rabin Medical Center, Israel

Prof. Dicker is the head of Internal Medicine D Department and Obesity Clinic and Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University. Prof. Dicker’s agenda is to contribute, promote and advance the quality of internal medicine and obesity, striving to improve the conditions, expertise, and work environment, and to attract new young doctors to Internal and obesity medicine, all to achieve the best possible patient health. As the President of the Israeli Association for the Study of Obesity and Co-Chair of the Obesity Management Task Force, European Association for the Study of Obesity Prof. Dicker strives to promote the educational activities aiming to broaden the knowledge of Internal and Obesity Medicine.  In the last 3 years Prof. Dicker lead the treatment of covid-19 patients in his hospital and was a member of the ministry of health advisory board. In March 2022 Prof. Dicker lead a team of physician and nurses from Rabin Medical Center that treat Ukraine refugees on the border of Poland. Prof. Dicker has published more than 100 papers in peer review journals and book chapters, as well as several international guidelines regarding obesity medicine and CVD risk factors. Prof. Dicker is the Immediate Past President of the European Federation of Internal Medicine.