Dr. Refael Barkan (Barak)

MD PhD

VP for Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Internationalization at HIT

refaelb@hit.ac.il 

Dr. Refael Barkan is VP for Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Internationalization at HIT, and founder of the first-of-its-kind academic program in Digital Medical Technologies. He holds an MD degree, a PhD in Brain Science, and an MSc in Computer Science. With vast knowledge in Digital Health, and extensive experience as R&D researcher, entrepreneur, and integrator, he leads HIT’s multidisciplinary team of excellent researchers, technologists, economists, entrepreneurs & visionaries, lecturers, mentors, and administrators. Dr. Barkan is a member of 8400 The Health Network – HealthTech leaders accelerating Israel’s global impact in Digital Health, and also of the 4th cohort of the program Leaders in Academia (‘Movilim Ba-Academia’).