Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Haifa, Mt Carmel, Haifa, Israel.

Gerry Leisman, MD, PHD, is an Israeli neuroscientist educated in the United Kingdom and the United States in Medicine, Neuroscience, and Biomedical Engineering at Manchester University. He additionally received a PhD in Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering from Union University in 1979. He is currently Full Professor and Research Fellow at the University of Haifa in Israel. He is also concurrently Director of the National Institute for Brain and Rehabilitation Sciences, a global research institute with laboratories in Gilbert, Arizona, United States, Nazareth and Zevulun, Israel and in Havana, Cuba. He holds a Full Professorship in Rehabilitation Sciences from Israel's Council of Higher Education (Malag). He concurrently is Professor of Restorative Neurology at the University of Medical Sciences in Havana, Cuba. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Functional Neurology, Rehabilitation, and Ergonomics.