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Shlomo Vinker

Leumit Health Services, Family Meidcine, Israel

Academic Background
MD or equivalent
Short Bio
Full Professor in Family Medicine, Vice Dean for community teaching, and Chair of the Department of Family Medicine (2006-2011, 2016-)Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv. Chief Medical Director of Leumit Health Services, a nationwide healthcare organization serving 730,000 patients since 2015. Established a research institute in Leumit in 2018 aiming to increase research in primary care. An active family physician, working in an urban clinic in the city of Ashdod, Israel. The Israeli Association of Family Physicians, Chairman 2009-2018, Treasurer 2018-. Executive board member of EGPRN (European General Practice Research Network) 2015-2021 President-Elect of WONCA (world organization of family physicians) EUROPE 2018-2021, and President 2021- Published about 200 research articles in peer review medical journals. My main research interest is in chronic disease management in primary care. Currently supervising: three Ph.D. thesis students, and five MA students at Leumit Health Services Research Institute.

Published Abstracts 13

The impact of remote and telemedicine visits on family physicians workload

Shlomo Vinker, Avivit Golan Cohen, Ilan Green, Eugene Merzon, Ariel Yehuda Israel

Presented on 21/10/2022 at the 95th EGPRN Meeting.

The long-term effect of COVID-19 – primary care survey

Shlomo Vinker, Avivit Golan Cohen, Ilan Green, Eugene Merzon, Ariel Yehuda Israel, Eva Abramovich, Hagit Itamary

Presented on 15/10/2021 at the 93rd EGPRN Meeting.

How the COVID-19 pandemic affected the total annual time spent by family physicians managing common diagnoses

Shlomo Vinker, Avivit Golan Cohen, Ilan Green, Eugene Merzon, Ariel Yehuda Israel

Presented on 12/05/2023 at the 96th EGPRN Meeting.

COVID-19 severity prediction based on patient risk factors and number of vaccines received

Shlomo Vinker, Ariel Israel, Alejandro A. Schäffer, Eugene Merzon, Ilan Green, Eli Magen, Avivit Golan-Cohen, Eytan Ruppin

Presented on 14/05/2022 at the 94th EGPRN Meeting.

Fostering HPV Vaccination Uptake in Youth: Insights from the Young Generation

Hüsna Sarıca Çevik, Gülsen Ceyhun Peker, Shlomo Vinker, Süleyman Görpelioğlu, Mehmet Ungan

Presented on 13/10/2023 at the 97th EGPRN Meeting.

How to Overcome Barriers to Information and Communication on HPV Vaccination? A Swot Analysis Based on the Opinions of Practicing Clinicians

Hüsna Sarıca Çevik, Ayşe Gülsen Ceyhun Peker, Süleyman Görpelioğlu, Shlomo Vinker, Mehmet Ungan

Presented on 12/05/2023 at the 96th EGPRN Meeting.

"A Day in the Life" – Distance medicine and its relation to Family Physicians' satisfaction from their work, and their perception of work quality

Galia Zacay, Limor Adler, Anthony Heymann, Shlomo Vinker, Yochai Schonmann, Robert Hoffman, Yossi Azuri, Ilan Green, Ilan Yehoshua, Avivit Golan Choen, Shani Afek, Michal Shani

Presented on 21/10/2022 at the 95th EGPRN Meeting.

Adherence to oral medications, complex and challenging interactions

Michal Shani, Alex Lustman, Doron Komaneshter, Shlomo Vinker

Presented on 11/05/2018 at the 86th EGPRN Meeting.

Intermediate care in caring for dementia: a key informant survey across Europe

Ferdinando Petrazzuoli, Hans Thulesius, Alessandro Pirani, Donata Kurpas, Shlomo Vinker, Patrik Midlov, Sebastian Palmqvist, Jan De Lepeleire

Presented on 21/10/2017 at the 85th EGPRN Meeting.

Too depressed to sleep: Long-term hypnotic treatment and mental illness. A 10 year retrospective cohort study of 250,000 patients.

Yochai Schonmann, Or Goren, Ronen Bareket, Doron Comaneshter, Arnon Cohen, Shlomo Vinker

Presented on 21/10/2017 at the 85th EGPRN Meeting.

Delphi Study on Primary Health Care Indicators for COVID-19 Pandemic across 30 European Countries: Eurodata study, preliminary results

Raquel Gomez Bravo, Sara Ares Blanco, Ileana Gefaell Larrondo, Lourdes Ramos Del Rio, Ferdinando Petrazzuoli, Alice Serafini, Davorina Petek, Snezana Knezevic, Radost Assenova, Thomas Frese, Heidrun Lingner, Limon Adler, Shlomo Vinker, Ana Luisa Neves, Bruno Heleno, Elena Brutskaya-Stempkovskaya, Bert Vaes, Bohumil Seifert, Maria Pencheri, Sabine Bayen, Theresa Sentker, Peter Torzsa, Louise Fitzgerald, Martin Sattler, Maryher Delphin Peña, Katarzyna Nessler, Carmen Busneag, Anna Kvitting, Erva Kırkoç, Büsra Çimen Korkmaz, Оксана Ільков, Nagu Penakacherla, Dragan Gjorgjievski, Aleksandar Kirkovski, Maria Bakola, Philip Domeyer, Sherihane Bensemmane, Ábel Perjés, Kathryn Hoffmann, Miroslav Hanževački, Milena Kostić, Goranka Petricek, Marijana Jandrić-Kočić, Achim Mortsiefer, Jako Burgers, Alejandro Gimenez Buitrago, Pedro Jose Saurin Moran, Marina Guisado Clavero, Maria Pilar Astier Peña, Eurodata Collaborative Group

Presented on 14/10/2023 at the 97th EGPRN Meeting.

An international case-vignette study to assess general practitioners’ willingness to deprescribe (LESS)

Katharina Tabea Jungo, Sophie Mantelli, Zsofia Rozsnyai, Aristea Missiou, Biljana Gerasimovska Kitanovska, Birgitta Weltermann, Canan Tuz, Christian Mallen, Claire Collins, Donata Kurpas, Fabio Gazelato De Mello Franco, Ferdinando Petrazzuoli, Hans Thulesius, Heidrun Lingner, Kasper Lorenz Johansen, Katharine Wallis, Kathryn Hoffmann, Lieve Peremans, Liina Pilv, Marija Petek Šter, Martin Sattler, Milly Van Der Ploeg, Péter Torzsa, Petra Kánská, Shlomo Vinker, Radost Assenova, Raquel Gomez Bravo, Rita Viegas, Rosy Tsopra, Sanda Kreitmayer Pestić, Sandra Gintere, Tuomas Koskela, Vanja Lazic, Victoria Tkachenko, Emily Reeve, Clare Luymes, Rosalinde Poortvliet, Arnaud Chiolero, Nicolas Rodondi, Jacobijn Gussekloo, Sven Streit

Presented on 06/10/2018 at the 87th EGPRN Meeting.

Influence of patient characteristics on GPs advice on stopping statins in oldest-old: survey study across GPs from 30 countries.

Milly Anna Altena-Van Der Ploeg, Sven Streit, Nettie Blankenstein, Erna Beers, Arthur Bohnen, Daiana Bonfim, Huib Burger, Robert Burman, Tuz Canan, Claire Collins, Fabio Gazelato De Mello Franco, Margot De Waal, Biljana Gerasimovska-Kitanovska, Sandra Gintere, Raquel Gomez Bravo, Kathryn Hoffmann, Claudia Iftode, Kasper Johansen, Tuomas Koskela, Donata Kurpas, Hubert Maisonneuve, Christan Mallen, Christoph Merlo, Yolanda Müller, Christiane Muth, Martin Sattler, Sanda K Peštić, Ferdinando Petrazzuoli, Nicolas Rodondi, Thomas Rosemann, Tjard Schermer, Marija Petek Šter, Zuzana Švadlenková, Athina Tatsioni, Hans Thulesius, Victoria Tkachenko, Péter Torzsa, Rosy Tsopra, Bert Vaes, Marjan Van Den Akker, Rita Viegas, Shlomo Vinker, Katharine Wallis, Andreas Zeller, Jacobijn Gussekloo, Rosalinde Poortvliet

Presented on 20/10/2017 at the 85th EGPRN Meeting.

Interests

Methodology
Quantitative Research