Varda Shalev

Prof. Varda Shalev is a Managing Partner in Team8 Health.
She serves as a professor of epidemiology at the Tel-Aviv University School of Public Health (TAU SPH) where she teaches areas of big-data and medical informatics.
Prof. Shalev is an active primary care physician in Maccabi Healthcare Services (MHS) sick fund.
She joined Team8 in 2022 to launch Team8 Health.

Prior to that she was a Co-Founder and CMO of a startup called Alike – a social network of patients.
She was the founder and CEO of KSM - Maccabi Research & Innovation Institute
With an MD degree from Ben-Gurion University Medical School, she completed her residency in family medicine and earned an MPA in Health Public Administration at Clark University. After a two-years |Post Doc fellowship in medical informatics at the Johns Hopkins University Hospital, Prof. Shalev established the Medical Informatics Department at Maccabi and was responsible for planning and developing its computerized systems encompassing data from two million members and 9000 care providers. Prof. Shalev has served as the director of Primary Care Division at MHS.
She has authored or co-authored over 250 publications in peer-reviewed journals.