Director, Infectious Diseases unit
Maccabi Healthcare Services, Israel
Disclosure(s): GSK: Lecturer; Pfizer: Grant/Research Support, Lecturer
Shirley Shapiro Ben David, MD, Maccabi Healthcare Services, Tel Aviv, Israel
Shirley Shapiro Ben David graduated from Hadassah Medical School, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, in 2008. From 2009 to 2013, she specialized in family medicine at Maccabi Healthcare Services, Tel Aviv, Israel. She has been working as a family physician in a clinic in Tel Aviv since 2013.
She started working in the Infectious Diseases unit at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon, Israel, in 2016 and completed her Fellowship in Infectious Diseases in 2019. She continued working there as a senior ID physician until 2022.
Since 2021, she has been the Head of the Infectious disease unit and serves as the chief consultant in Maccabi Healthcare Services, the second-largest Health Maintenance Organization in Israel.
Her current research / scientific interests focus on vaccine-preventable infections, antimicrobial stewardship, gastrointestinal infections during pregnancy, and long COVID. Shirley has contributed peer-reviewed articles and publications and has presented her research work at National and International congresses.
Shirley is a member of the Israeli Academy of Family Medicine, the Israel Association of Public Health Physicians, the Israeli HIV Medical Society, the Israeli Infectious Diseases Society, and IDSA.
Shirley is a mother of four. She lives with her husband and kids in Israel and enjoys swimming and baking.