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Tal Patalon
טל פטלון‎
Tal Patalon
Tal Patalon
Born19 May 1974 (1974-05-19) (age 50)
Tel Aviv, Israel
CitizenshipIsrael
Education
  • Doctor of Medicine (M.D), Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary.
  • Specialist degrees in family medicine and emergency medicine, along with certification in palliative medicine, Tel Aviv University
  • LL.B. from Ono Academic College
Known forHead of the Research and Innovation Center (KSM - Kahn Sagol Maccabi) at Maccabi Healthcare Services


Tal Tova Patalon (born May 19, 1974) is an Israeli doctor and researcher, She is Head of the Kahn Sagol Maccabi Research and Innovation Center (KSM) at Maccabi Healthcare Services, and the Founder of Medāna, a global health AI company.[1]

Patalon is an active clinician specializing in family medicine and emergency medicine, a high-tech entrepreneur, lawyer, mediator, as well as an AI-integrated medical technology specialist. In the past, Patalon served as Head of the Palliative Care Unit at Wolfson Medical Center; more recently, she led the Innovation Department at Assuta Ashdod Medical Center.

In 2024, Nature Magazine chose to feature Patalon as one of four changemakers who bring fresh perspectives to long-standing health challenges through big-data analytics and AI. [2]

She is also a regular contributor to Forbes[3] on issues pertaining to innovation and medicine, [4] [5] [6][3] some of her articles have been chosen as an Editor’s Pick. [7][8]

Since 2022, Patalon hosts A Matter of Life and Death, [9][10] a podcast in which she conducts in-depth conversations with doctors, researchers, and other leaders in the field of science, [11][12] [13] technology,[14] economics, finance, artificial intelligence, [15] research, and media. Prominent guests have included economist Prof. Nouriel Roubini, Israeli-American astrophysicist Prof. Avi Loeb,[16] and Former Head of Mossad Yossi Cohen.

Early Life and Education

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Patalon was born in Tel Aviv. She grew up and went to school in Holon; in her youth, she was a social activist.[17] She began her compulsory military service as a teacher-soldier and completed her service as an officer (rank of lieutenant) in 1995. [18]

In 2002 she earned her Doctor of Medicine (M.D) degree from Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary. She has specialist degrees in family medicine and emergency medicine, along with certification in palliative medicine, from Tel Aviv University. Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page).

In 2007, she earned a LL.B. from Ono Academic College and is licensed to practice law. She specialized in tort law and medical malpractice in the law firm Shahal & HaEzrachi. Patalon has an MBA in Healthcare Innovation from Reichman University, and is certified in legal mediation from Gome Gevim College.[18]

In 2022, she completed a certificate program focusing on sequencing technologies and genetic testing, as well as new treatments for inflammatory, autoimmune, and allergic diseases at Harvard Medical School. [19]

Professional career

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In 2005, she started working as a family doctor at Clalit Health Services, and then served as an emergency medicine doctor at the Wolfson Medical Center.[20] Later, she established the first unit for palliative care as part of the emergency medicine services at the Wolfson Medical Center. Under her leadership and with the help of donations, including from the Israeli Cancer Association, a dedicated supportive care room was established within the emergency medicine department to provide multidisciplinary care to patients in need. In 2017, she managed the Outpatient Department at the Wolfson Medical Center. [21]

In 2011, she founded Karov, Palliative Care Ltd, a public benefit corporation to promote palliative care initiatives, with emphasis on end-of-life compassionate care.[22]

In 2018, she was appointed Head of the Innovation Department at Assuta Ashdod University Hospital, where she also served as a senior physician in the emergency medicine department.

In 2023, she lectured at Reichman University on the relationship between health, big data and ethics.

KSM (Kahn-Sagol-Maccabi) Research and Innovation Center of Maccabi Healthcare Services.

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As of 2020, Patalon serves as the Head of Maccabi Health Services'  (Kahn Sagol Maccabi) Research and Innovation Center (KSM), where she leads initiatives in research, development, and international health policy. In this capacity, she manages the Tipa Biobank, Israel's largest-scale biobank for research.

Under her leadership, the Center has spearheaded groundbreaking research integrating AI, innovative epidemiological methodologies, biostatistical modeling, genetics and clinical studies that have propelled changes in health policies and medical treatment. [23]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Patalon played a pivotal role in shaping health policy [24] and fostering international collaboration to combat the crisis. She led KSM’s data-driven research that provided new insights into natural immunity, [25] childhood infections, [26] viral load indices, and more, thereby enabling data-driven management of the epidemic.

She coined the term Small-Big-Data,[27] a research approach based on a continuous loop of feedback supported by insights from big data and clinical experts who improve them. Under her direction, KSM's groundbreaking research helped shape global health policy, including White House policy,[28][29] and enriched knowledge in the field of medical innovation.

Patalon has led the development of the organization’s advanced and secure digital infrastructure that enables data-intensive multi-Omics research, thus making KSM one of the most advanced research institutes in the world in terms of cloud-based health research, equipped with advanced technological tools to support the development of artificial intelligence models. Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page).

Dr. Patalon has established many successful partnerships with world leaders and prominent health industry figures; for example, she has helped forge strategic medical research agreements with the United Arab Emirates [30][31] [32][33] and Bahrain. [34]


Among her main research areas:

  • COVID-19:[29][35][36] Patalon has conducted studies on reinfection in children, [37][26] reinfection in adults, [38] naturally acquired immunity, [25] [39] [40] benefits of the third vaccine, [41] waning effectiveness of the third vaccine, [42] waning effectiveness of a fourth vaccine compared to a third vaccine[43] and effects of the vaccine on household transmission. [44]
  • Research on Mpox: In 2023, Patalon co-authored studies on the monkeypox epidemic in Israel. Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page). [45]
  • Parvovirus B19: In 2023, Patalon led a study, later published in Viruses, [46] which revealed a renewed outbreak of the Parvovirus B19 virus, and that Israel was, as of 2023, in the midst of the largest and longest outbreak of the virus reported so far. [47]

Footnotes

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  1. ^ "About us". Medana. Retrieved 16 May 2024.
  2. ^ Coombs, A. and Ong, S. Four Change-Makers Seek Impact in Medical Research Nature. Nature Publishing Group. March 13 2024
  3. ^ a b "Dr. Tal Patalon, MD, LLB, MBA". Forbes. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
  4. ^ Dr. Tal Patalon, MD, LLB, MBA (5 March 2024). "Moral Injury Considered As New Diagnosis Amid Israel-Hamas War". Forbes.{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ Dr. Tal Patalon, As Google Retracts Gemini, Deepak Chopra Reflects On Morality In AI, Forbes, 24 February 2024
  6. ^ Dr. Tal Patalon, Moral Injury Considered As New Diagnosis Amid Israel-Hamas War, Forbes, 5 March 2024
  7. ^ Patalon, Tal (10 February 2024). "End-Of-Life: The One Decision AI Cannot Predict". Forbes. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
  8. ^ Patalon, Tal. "OpenAI's Sora Challenges The Art Of Medicine". Forbes. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
  9. ^ Patalon, Tal. "A Matter of Life and Death". Spotify. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
  10. ^ A Matter of Life and Death - podcast
  11. ^ Ghert-Zand, Renee (12 March 2023). "This unusual Israeli podcast covers everything from sentient AI to extending the human lifespan". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
  12. ^ "זנחנו את הנפש ואת הנשמה", ynet, 27 March 2022
  13. ^ אנחנו טכנולוגיים יותר ובודדים יותר, ynet, 22 February 2023
  14. ^ Rubinstein, Carrie (8 March 2023). "AI Is Taking Over Our Feelings: An Economist's Positive-Negative Prediction Of The Near Future". Forbes. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
  15. ^ "הבינה המלאכותית הולכת להוביל שינוי שכמותו לא ראינו שנים בעולם הרפואה", ynet, 1 August 2023
  16. ^ "בינה מלאכותית תסייע לנו לתקן את גוף האדם בדומה למכונית או לסלולרי", ynet, 30 January 2023
  17. ^ אסתי אהרונוביץ, ד"ר טל פטלון, ממקימות תרופה לכל: "הרווח שלי הוא לראות אדם קונה את התרופה שלו בחצי מחיר", TheMarker, 21 December 2006
  18. ^ a b Lev-Adler, Anat (17 November 2022). "Everything is personal". Ynet. Retrieved 16 May 2024.
  19. ^ Tal Patalon, המהפכה הגנטית כבר כאן, וכדאי לנהל אותה בחוכמה, Walla, 15 June 2023
  20. ^ "Palliative unit for supportive care". Wolfson Medical Center. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
  21. ^ Moscone Lerman, Billy. "What happens to a person in his last hours, and is there a right way to say goodbye to life?". Wolfson Medical Center. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
  22. ^ Karov, Palliative Care Ltd, guidestar
  23. ^ Berkofsky, Joe. "KSM Research And Innovation And Genetika+ Partner To Seek AI Solutions For Personalization Of Depression Treatment". US Healthcare Journal. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
  24. ^ "בלי הקורונה אולי לא היו מכניסים לעולם את הזום למערכת הבריאות", Calcalist, 31 May 2021
  25. ^ a b Patalon, Tal; Saciuk, Yaki; Perez, Galit; Peretz, Asaf; Ben-Tov, Amir; Gazit, Sivan (2023). "Dynamics of Naturally Acquired Immunity Against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 in Children and Adolescents". The Journal of Pediatrics. 257. doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2023.02.016. PMC 9981270. PMID 36870558.
  26. ^ a b Gazit, Sivan; Saciuk, Yaki; Perez, Galit; Peretz, Asaf; Ben-Tov, Amir; Stuart, Elizabeth A.; Patalon, Tal (2023). "Hybrid immunity against reinfection with SARS-CoV-2 following a previous SARS-CoV-2 infection and single dose of the BNT162b2 vaccine in children and adolescents: A target trial emulation". The Lancet Microbe. 4 (7): e495–e505. doi:10.1016/S2666-5247(23)00103-9. PMC 10101759. PMID 37062294.
  27. ^ Patalon, Tal (9 September 2022). "Small-Big Data: A Healthcare Revolution In The Making". Forbes. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
  28. ^ Joyce Frieden, Fauci: 'Dramatic Data' From Israel Support COVID-19 Boosters, MedPage Today September 2, 2021
  29. ^ a b Miltimore, Jon (22 August 2022). "The CDC (Finally) Admitted the Science on Natural Immunity. Why Did It Take So Long?". Stream. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
  30. ^ "New UAE-Israel agreement to promote cancer, diabetes research". Khaleej Times. 13 July 2022.
  31. ^ Oommen, Anup (2 March 2022). "G42 Healthcare, KSM enter first UAE-Israel genetic research collaboration". Arabian Business. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
  32. ^ בין ישראל לאמירויות: נחתם הסכם ראשון על מחקר משותף על חוסר בוויטמין D, ynet, 30 June 2022
  33. ^ "SEHA, Israel's Kahn-Sagol-Maccabi to promote joint medical research and technological innovation". Zawya. 13 July 2022. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
  34. ^ "Bahrain, Israeli health bodies to collaborate on research". Jerusalem Post. 9 May 2022. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
  35. ^ Wadman, Meredith (26 August 2021). "Having SARS-CoV-2 once confers much greater immunity than a vaccine—but vaccination remains vital". Science. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
  36. ^ Anthes, Emily (18 June 2021). "Widespread vaccination of adults helps protect unvaccinated children, according to a new Israeli study". New York Times. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
  37. ^ Hoffman, Maayan (24 August 2022). "Children Have Strong Immunity Against COVID-19 Up to 18 Months After Being Infected". Health Policy Watch. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
  38. ^ Gazit, S; Shlezinger, R; Perez, G; Lotan, R; Peretz, A; Ben-Tov, A; Herzel, E; Alapi, H; Cohen, D; Muhsen, K; Chodick, G; Patalon, T (May 2022). "The Incidence of SARS-CoV-2 Reinfection in Persons With Naturally Acquired Immunity With and Without Subsequent Receipt of a Single Dose of BNT162b2 Vaccine : A Retrospective Cohort Study". Annals of internal medicine. 175 (5): 674–681. doi:10.7326/M21-4130. PMID 35157493.
  39. ^ Patalon, Tal; Saciuk, Yaki; Perez, Galit; Peretz, Asaf; Ben-Tov, Amir; Gazit, Sivan (2023). "Dynamics of Naturally Acquired Immunity Against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 in Children and Adolescents". The Journal of Pediatrics. 257. doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2023.02.016. PMC 9981270. PMID 36870558.
  40. ^ Patalon, Tal; Saciuk, Yaki; Perez, Galit; Peretz, Asaf; Ben-Tov, Amir; Gazit, Sivan (2023). "Dynamics of Naturally Acquired Immunity Against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 in Children and Adolescents". The Journal of Pediatrics. 257. doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2023.02.016. PMC 9981270. PMID 36870558.
  41. ^ Tal Patalon, MD; Sivan Gazit, MD, MA; Virginia E. Pitzer, ScD; et al Odds of Testing Positive for SARS-CoV-2 Following Receipt of 3 vs 2 Doses of the BNT162b2 mRNA Vaccine, JAMA Intern Med. 2022;182(2):179-184. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.7382
  42. ^ Patalon, Tal; Saciuk, Yaki; Peretz, Asaf; Perez, Galit; Lurie, Yoav; Maor, Yasmin; Gazit, Sivan (2022). "Waning effectiveness of the third dose of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine". Nature Communications. 13 (1): 3203. Bibcode:2022NatCo..13.3203P. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-30884-6. PMC 9184525. PMID 35680872.
  43. ^ Gazit, Sivan; Saciuk, Yaki; Perez, Galit; Peretz, Asaf; Pitzer, Virginia E.; Patalon, Tal (24 May 2022). "Short term, relative effectiveness of four doses versus three doses of BNT162b2 vaccine in people aged 60 years and older in Israel: retrospective, test negative, case-control study". BMJ. 377: e071113. doi:10.1136/bmj-2022-071113.
  44. ^ Ben-Tov, Amir; Lebwohl, Benjamin; Banon, Tamar; Chodick, Gabriel; Kariv, Revital; Assa, Amit; Gazit, Sivan; Patalon, Tal (2023). "BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness in Patients with Coeliac Disease Autoimmunity: Real-World Data from Mass Vaccination Campaign". Viruses. 15 (9): 1968. doi:10.3390/v15091968. PMID 37766374.
  45. ^ Tal Patalon, Galit Perez, Mpox Patient Journey in Israel
  46. ^ Patalon, Tal; Saciuk, Yaki; Trotzky, Daniel; Pachys, Gal; Ben-Tov, Amir; Segal, Yaakov; Gazit, Sivan (16 November 2023). "An Outbreak of Parvovirus B19 in Israel". Viruses. 15 (11): 2261. doi:10.3390/v15112261. ISSN 1999-4915.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  47. ^ Mor, Orna; Wax, Marina; Arami, Shoshana-Shani; Yitzhaki, Maya; Kriger, Or; Erster, Oran; Zuckerman, Neta S. (20 March 2024). "Parvovirus B19 Outbreak in Israel: Retrospective Molecular Analysis from 2010 to 2023". Viruses. 16 (3): 480. doi:10.3390/v16030480.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
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