Professor Charles Sprung, Director of Hadassah Medical Organization’s General Intensive Care Unit, serves as an intensivist and clinical-scientist. His principal research interests are devoted to understanding and treating sepsis and ethical issues related to the critically ill. Sprung’s scholarship is demonstrated by approximately 300 papers published in prominent medical journals and obtaining grants from various agencies.

As the chairman of multiple organizations he has respectively worked towards accomplishing multiple goals, including: having CCM recognized as a subspecialty; passing and implementing the Dying Patient Act; investigating, exposing and working to improve care Israeli patients receive in the ICU; altering world- wide practices in relation to sepsis, triage and end-of-life care. His internationally recognized contributions are not only his, but also Israel’s.

Professor Sprung made Aliyah in 1990 from the United States.