Efraim Lev is a full professor at the Department of Israel Studies at the University of Haifa. He was trained as field biologist, historian and archeologist. Therefore, his academic work has always had a strong interdisciplinary focus. His first research projects dealt with archeo-botany but his academic path subsequently took him to the history of medicine and pharmacology. The integration of biology and history uniquely allowed him to combine and study subjects seldom researched together before and thus to arrive at new historical insights.

Prof. Lev was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Haifa (October 2020), after serving eight years as the Head of the Department of Humanities and Arts at the Technion, Haifa (on secondment from the University of Haifa) and five years as Head of the University’s Department of Special B.A Programs (Eshkol). He spent his post-doctoral period at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London (2000-2001), and was later a Visiting Scholar at St. John’s College, Cambridge (2003-2004, 2011-2012). Professor Lev is the first and only Israeli scholar to be a recipient of the George Urdang Medal for pharmaco-historical writings, awarded by the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy in 2012. A few years later, he won a medal and membership of the International Academy of the History of Pharmacy (Warsaw 2017).

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