After struggles by the Ministry of Health in the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality: Prof. Eli Spercher was elected today (Thursday) to the position of the next director of Ichilov Medical Center.
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Ichilov Hospital is a supercenter and a national research and development center. Tens of thousands of patients enter its gates every day. It contains more than 1,600 hospital beds and employs 8,700 employees.
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The selection of Prof. Spercher was accompanied by struggles over the composition of the selection committee, which gave more power to the municipality than to the Ministry of Health, even though the hospital is jointly owned by both entities.
According to a report on the Ynet website, Prof. Spercher is supported by outgoing CEO Prof. Roni Gamzo, while Moshe Bar Siman Tov, Director General of the Ministry of Health, is inclined to support one of the three candidates who are not from Ichilov: Shamir Medical Center Director Dr. Osnat Levtzion-Korach, Hillel Yaffe Hospital Director Prof. Mickey Dudkevich, and Dr. Orly Weinstein, who serves as Senior Vice President at Clalit Health Fund and Head of the Fund's Hospital Division.
Prof. Eli Spercher, VP of Research and Development, Director of the Skin Department at Ichilov Hospital, and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University, is a world-renowned clinician, researcher, and academic. Prof. Spercher has served as a member of Ichilov's management since 2016 and began working at Ichilov in 2008, after 12 years at Rambam Hospital.
Prof. Spercher will replace Prof. Roni Gamzo, who has served as CEO of Ichilov for 9 years and as a member of the Ichilov board of directors for 22 years.
The CEO will be replaced by the end of the year.
Gamzo: "I didn't mark Spercher""
In a letter sent by Prof. Gamzo to Ichilov employees, he wrote: "Dear employees, members of my family, the Ichilov family. Today, Prof. Eli Spercher was elected to manage our medical center for the coming years, after me.
22 years ago, I took my breath away when I was selected to be the Young Vice President of Medical Economics, under my mentor, Prof. Barbash. I remember that alongside the joy and pride, I cried about giving up my career as a gynecologist, which I loved so much.
Even today, the joy of choosing the most suitable replacement in my opinion is mixed with the sadness of leaving the role of director, which is part of my life, part of my family's life.
About two years ago, I made the decision to allow the hospital to undergo a management renewal that I believe in, but to continue to be with a new director, help him and the management, continue to be with you, and push the huge (so necessary) plans that march us forward as leaders of hospitals in the country. The combination of management renewal along with maintaining the knowledge, experience, and influence that I have also gained in raising resources is an interpersonal challenge, but it is critical to our success in achieving the lofty goals we have set.
The leader at Ichilov must first be a team member, sensitive to his environment but at the same time, professional, determined, courageous and innovative. Understands the economic, business and regulatory management of the system; In addition, to lead curiosity, conceptualization, research and development and innovation, it is important that he is also a research and scientific person who can conduct a proper scientific discourse about every department manager and medical system in Israel and around the world. Leader, manager, doctor, teacher and researcher.
Eli Shaparkar is a combination of all of this; like Gabi, and probably like me. A unique combination and style, different from my predecessors, and different from me.
I did not 'mark' Elie Shasparkar any more than Gabi 'marked' me as his replacement; it is the nature of leaders to 'mark themselves'; to stand out above the others by combining such qualities. In the last two years I have seen this, and to some extent I have even confirmed my early feelings.
Ichilov today has the most talented manager in the system, and I will be there to help him as much as he needs, however he chooses.
Collaboration under the Ministry of Health, and in particular the Director General of the Ministry, is key to the success of the hospital; someone like me knows this as someone who has held both positions. We need the Ministry of Health and its Director General, and together with the management and you, we will do everything to serve the country, and in particular the patients and their families. Remember - they are the most important, they are the center, not us; we are here for them.
"I will never abandon my commitment to them and will be accessible and sensitive to any request and any assistance. To them as to you. Yours, Ronnie""
