Prof. Rachel Dankner

Prof. Dankner is a senior researcher at the Gertner Institute and the director of the Reuth R&D institute at the Reuth Rehabilitation and Geriatric hospital. She is a Public Health physician and serves as Head of the public health residency examinations committee. Prof. Dankner graduated in medicine at the Hebrew University and earned her M.P.H. degree at the John's Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. She holds a Diploma in Sports Medicine from the Tel Aviv Continuing Education program and is a certified sports physician and marine physician.

Prof. Dankner is the P.I. on the Israel Glucose Intolerance, Obesity and Hypertension study, a 50-year follow up study on a cohort of the Israeli population. She is a winner of the 2022 Healthy Longevity Research Center Research Grant on "Machine learning versus classic epidemiological investigation into determinants of unhealthy aging on the one hand and healthy aging on the other: a 50-year cohort study of community-dwelling men and women". Her research focus on risk factors and prevention of cardiovascular diseases, with an emphasis on lifestyle modifications. She established several cohorts of heart patients, stroke survivors, and diabetic patients, which serve in her longitudinal epidemiologic studies.