Brig. Gen. Elon Glassberg, MD, MHA, MBA

Dr. Glassberg graduated (with honors) from Ben-Gurion University Medical School in Beersheba, Israel, in 1996 and joined the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Medical Corps in 1997. Over his career, he has served in diverse roles, including Special Forces medical officer, flight surgeon, and division surgeon during the Second Lebanon War. He played a key role as head of the Trauma & Combat Medicine Branch, spearheading the IDF’s “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative, reducing preventable deaths and achieving the lowest case fatality rates in IDF history.

Board-certified as a surgeon and in healthcare management, Dr. Glassberg has held leadership roles in national and international trauma organizations, including NATO's COMEDS and THOR (an international network advancing damage control resuscitation in pre-hospital settings).

He is a professor of surgery at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel, and an adjunct professor at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, with more than 125 publications in leading journals.

Dr. Glassberg’s expertise spans pre-hospital trauma care, military medicine, and leadership in crisis management. Between 2020 and 2024, he served as the IDF Surgeon General, advancing digitization and modernizing routine medical care while driving organizational learning and improvement processes. During his tenure, he led the Medical Corps through the COVID-19 pandemic, humanitarian missions in Equatorial Guinea and Turkey, and multiple military operations, including the ongoing "Swords of Iron" war. Dr. Glassberg holds advanced degrees in health administration and business administration and is a graduate of the Maoz leadership program. He continues to serve operationally as a combat flight surgeon in Unit 669, IDF's elite Combat Search & Rescue unit.