National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Jerusalem, Israel; Clalit Health Services; Department of Family Medicine, Division of Community Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.

Mohammed Morad, MD, FRCP was born in Israel and educated in the Czech Republic, Israel and the United Kingdom. Professor of Pediatrics at Kentucky Children’s Hospital, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States and Senior Lecturer at the Family Medicine Department, Community Health Division, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel. Director of Yaski Teaching Medical Center, affiliated with Ben Gurion University in the Negev. Head of the Patient Safety Circle, Israel Federation of Family Physicians and Member of the Chamber of Ethics in Israel. Member of the Society of Patient Safety and Risk Management, Life Style Medicine, Pain Management and Rural Health Circle under the Israel Federation of Family Physicians. Lecturer on patient safety at Ben Gurion and Tel Aviv University. Researcher and publications in disability studies, Bedouin health research and patient safety. Received the Medical Director Award 2006 from the medical director of the Ministry of Social Affairs, Jerusalem. FRCP of the Royal College of Phyisicians in Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow, United Kingdom.