Dr. Ygal Plakht (YP) was born in USSR in 1971 and since 1990 lives in Israel, Beer Sheva. In 1998 YP graduated as a Bachelor of Nursing (BN) and in 2009 received PhD in Department of Epidemiology, the Faculty of Health Sciences Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel. Today YP incorporates research (Senior lecturer), management (Director of Recanati School of Community Health Professions, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) and work in the clinical field (Nurse in the Emergency Department, Soroka University Medical Center). The primary research interest included an epidemiology of acute and chronic disorders with an emphasis on investigation of prognosis and utilization of healthcare services following acute myocardial infarction. During the work in this field YP gained a reach experience in management and analysis of big patients’ administrative and clinical data obtained from different computerized information systems. Author and co-author of about 70 scientific publications in collaboration with physicians and academic staff.