Rafael Beyar

Prof Beyar, former Director and CEO of Rambam Health Care Campus (2006-2019).
He is a Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering at the Technion.
He received an MD from Tel Aviv University, DSc in Biomedical Engineering from the Technion, and MPH from the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University.
He served as Dean of the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine (1999-2004), establishing the Johns Hopkins Technion-Collaboration Program.
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Beyar led the hospital through an unprecedented development of the Rambam Comprehensive West campus, combining education, research, and innovation.
This included the 2,000-bed Fortified Underground Emergency Hospital, the Children’s Hospital and the Oncology Center.
He also initiated the planning and construction of the Heart Hospital and Helmsley Health Discovery Tower, a hybrid for clinical, academic, and industrial collaborations.
Beyar also established the Tech-transfer company- Rambam MedTech, and spearheaded the hospital's role for establishment of the MindUp Incubator on Digital Health.
Among his national posts, Beyar was chair of the Israeli Basket committee (2010-2014) and serves as the Chair of the Steering committee for the Israeli Organ Transplant Center.
Beyar is a practicing interventional cardiologist, innovative researcher, inventor, and entrepreneur, co-authored more than 300 publications and 15 books, is the recipient of numerous awards such as the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars Award (2005) and an Honorary Doctorate from University of Haifa (2018).
Beyar co-founded InStent (1989) sold to Medtronic (1996) and founded NaviCath (Later Corindus), a Technion Incubator Company (2002) who developed the world’s first robotic coronary intervention, sold to Siemens Healthineers (2019).
He founded and co-chairs with Prof Chaim Lotan the world leading meeting on Innovation in Cardiovascular Interventions meeting (ICI) since 1996.