Highlights From the 2026 Rambam Summit
From the communities of Northern Israel to the laboratories where tomorrow’s treatments are taking shape, the 2026 Rambam Summit offered Rambam Health Care Campus’ global friends and partners a close look at medicine in motion, and at the people who carry it forward.  Since its inception in 2010, the annual Rambam Summit has celebrated the meeting of medicine, technology, and humanity. This year, international leaders in healthcare, VIP guests, and delegates from Rambam Friends Associations in the USA, Canada, Mexico, and the UK spent three days exploring current medical challenges, witnessing new discoveries, and following the path innovation takes from the bench to the bedside. From the communities of Northern Israel to the laboratories where tomorrow’s treatments are taking shape, the 2026 Rambam Summit offered Rambam Health Care Campus’ global friends and partners a close look at medicine in motion, and at the people who carry it forward. Since its inception in 2010, the annual Rambam Summit has celebrated the meeting of medicine, technology, and humanity. This year, international leaders in healthcare, VIP guests, and delegates from Rambam Friends Associations in the USA, Canada, Mexico, and the UK spent three days exploring current medical challenges, witnessing new discoveries, and following the path innovation takes from the bench to the bedside. Members of the delegation toured communities affected by the war, including a Druze village, seeing firsthand the reality in which Rambam operates. The next day, the focus turned to the future. The Rambam Tomorrow conference brought together leading figures from medicine, technology, academia, and industry to explore the future of health care in the age of artificial intelligence. Organized in collaboration with ynet and Calcalist, the conference featured prominent speakers, including NVIDIA CTO Michael Kagan and Base44 founder Maor Shlomo, alongside medical experts from Rambam, researchers, and entrepreneurs. Through panel discussions, interviews, and TED-style presentations, participants explored AI integration in clinical practice, next-generation drug discovery, medical entrepreneurship, health care data ownership, and breakthrough technologies. The event highlighted Rambam’s commitment to bridging clinical expertise, scientific research, and technological innovation to advance personalized medicine, improve patient care, and turn the medicine of tomorrow into reality today. The conversation continued at a Morning of Science, where presentations on advances in craniomaxillofacial surgery, neuroscience, medical imaging, and the use of artificial intelligence in medicine. One of the Summit’s most personal moments came at the Eyal Ofer Heart Hospital, where Lennart Perlhagen and his son Richard, joined members of the Palti family to open the Palti & Perlhagen Center for Research and Innovation in Cardiovascular Medicine. Lennart established the Center in honor of his friend and business partner, Professor Yoram Palti z"l. The Summit culminated in a gala evening, where hundreds of guests celebrated the hospital’s achievements and popular Israeli artists took the stage. The highlight was the Rambam Award ceremony, the hospital’s highest recognition for exceptional contributions to science, medicine, and society. This year, the award was presented to Professor Bruce Beutler, 2011 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, whose research has made lasting contributions to medicine and science; to Zohar and Yankale Yakobson, Israeli philanthropists, for advancing integrative medicine and the treatment of young adult oncology patients in Israel; and to Rabbi Yitzchak David Grossman, founder and president of Migdal Ohr, one of Israel’s largest welfare networks for at-risk children and youth of Migdal Ohr, one of Israel’s largest welfare networks for at-risk children and youth. |
