Sha’ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Hadera, Israel.

Alexander Grinshpoon, MD, MHA, PhD, is Director of Sha’ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Hadera, Israel and Clinical Associate Professor at the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. He served as Director of Mental Health Services in the Israel Ministry of Health from 2001 to 2006. He former positions include Director of Tirat Carmel Mental Health Center, and Head of the Department of Psychiatry in the Israel Defense Forces, and Director of the Reservists Section of the Central Mental Health Clinic for the Israel Defense Forces.