Sharon Alroy-Preis

{{Short description|Official in the Israeli Health Ministry}}

{{Orphan|date=April 2023}}

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| name = Sharon Alroy-Preis

| native_name = שרון אלרעי פרייס

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| nationality = Israeli

| fields = Epidemiology, Public Health

| workplaces = Israeli Health Ministry, Carmel Medical Center

| alma_mater = Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (M.D.), Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (M.P.H.)

| known_for = Chief Epidemiologist of Israel

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Sharon Alroy-Preis ({{Langx|he|שרון אלרעי פרייס}}) is the head of public health services at the Israeli Health Ministry,{{cite news |title=Top health official opposed boosters for over-50s, citing insufficient data |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/top-health-official-opposed-boosters-for-over-50s-citing-insufficient-data-tv/ |access-date=2 October 2021 |work=The Times of Israel|date=August 13, 2021}}{{cite news |last1=Jaffa-Hoffman |first1=Maayan |title=Health Ministry appoints Sadetsky successor: Sharon Alroy-Preis |url=https://www.jpost.com/health-science/health-ministry-appoints-sadetsky-successor-sharon-alroy-preis-636589 |access-date=2 October 2021 |work=The Jerusalem Post|date=July 28, 2020}} and is Israel's chief epidemiologist.{{cite news |last1=Ravid |first1=Barak |title=Israel's chief epidemiologist creates diplomatic incident with UAE |url=https://www.axios.com/2021/01/28/israel-chief-epidemiologist-dubai-travel-uae |access-date=13 September 2022 |publisher=Axios |date=January 28, 2021}}

Education

Alroy-Preis holds a doctorate in medicine from the Technion and a master's degree from the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (division of Dartmouth College).

Career

Alroy-Preis was deputy CEO of the Carmel Medical Center in Israel and the State Epidemiologist in New Hampshire.{{cite web |title=Sharon Alroy-President |url=https://www.pmwcintl.com/speaker/sharon-alroy-preis_ministry-of-health-israel_2021covid/ |website=Precision Medicine World Conference |access-date=2 October 2021}}{{cite web |title=Public Health Heroes |url=https://www.astho.org/americashealthrankings/heroes/New-Hampshire/ |website=ASSOCIATION OF STATE AND TERRITORIAL HEALTH OFFICIALS |access-date=2 October 2021}}

Selected publications

  • Alroy S, Preis M, Barzilai M, Cassel A, Lavie L, Halon DA, Amir O, Lewis BS, Flugelman MY. Endothelial cell dysfunction in women with cardiac syndrome X and MTHFR C677T mutation. Isr Med Assoc J. 2007 Apr;9(4):321-5. PMID 17491230.

& Mevorach D, Anis E, Cedar N, Hasin T, Bromberg M, Goldberg L, Parnasa E, Dichtiar R, Hershkovitz Y, Ash N, Green MS, Keinan-Boker L, Alroy-Preis S. Myocarditis after BNT162b2 Vaccination in Israeli Adolescents. N Engl J Med. 2022 Mar 10;386(10):998-999. doi: 10.1056/NEJMc2116999. Epub 2022 Jan 26. PMID 35081295; PMCID: PMC8823652.

  • [https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2114228 Waning Immunity after the BNT162b2 Vaccine in Israel]

References