{"entity":{"id":"yitshak-kreiss","kind":"person","name":"Yitshak Kreiss","aka":[],"tldr":"Director General of Sheba Medical Center since 2016, leading Israel's largest hospital and its cancer centre.","summary":"Yitshak Kreiss has been Director General of Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer since 15 August 2016. A physician and former Surgeon General of the Israel Defense Forces, he has driven Sheba's innovation agenda and international collaborations. Sheba houses one of Israel's largest cancer treatment and research centres under his leadership.","asOf":"2026-09-10","links":[{"label":"Institution profile","url":"https://www.shebaonline.org/"}],"tags":["leadership","hospital management"],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["sheba"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"role":"Director General","institutionId":"sheba","specialisms":["Hospital management","Health innovation","Disaster medicine"],"profiles":[{"label":"Institution profile","url":"https://www.shebaonline.org/"}],"papers":[{"title":"The Founder Mutations in the BRCA1 , BRCA2 , and ATM Genes in Moroccan Jewish Women with Breast Cancer","journal":"Genetic Testing","year":2000,"doi":"10.1089/109065700750065171"},{"title":"Hypertension in adolescence is not an independent risk factor for renal cancer: A cohort study of 918,965 males","journal":"Journal of the American Society of Hypertension","year":2013,"doi":"10.1016/j.jash.2013.04.003"}]},"route":"/people/yitshak-kreiss/","neighbours":{"institution":[{"id":"sheba","kind":"institution","name":"Sheba Medical Center","route":"/institutions/sheba/"}]}}