Dr. Rosenberg has been a member of ACPM for over 15 years. He
currently serves in a dual role in Israel's Ministry of Health: National
Coordinator of the Healthy Israel 2020 Initiative, a national health
promotion/disease prevention program, and Head, Department of Occupational
Health in the Israeli Ministry of Health.
Born in New York, Elliot immigrated as
a youth with his family to Israel.
He returned to the US to
earn a BA from Columbia
College. Medical training
was done at Tel-Aviv University School of Medicine. A General Preventive
Medicine residency was completed at the University
of Washington in Seattle, focusing on environmental and
occupational health. He trained as an NCI cancer prevention fellow in the
Cancer Research Prevention Program of the Fred Hutchinson
Cancer Research
Center. He is also a board-certified
in Public Health by the Israeli Medical Association.
For seventeen years, Elliot served as an operational flight surgeon in
the Israeli Air Force in the following billets: flight surgeon in an F-16
fighter squadron, Director of Base Medical Services at Ramat-David AFB, human
factor flight safety specialist in the Safety and Inspection Directorate, and
Chief of the Clinical Section at the IAF
Aeromedical Center.
After leaving the service, he worked as Director of Clinical Safety at Teva
Pharmaceuticals, and headed the Department of Community Geriatrics in the
Israeli Ministry of Health, focusing on prevention in seniors.
Dr. Rosenberg is a fellow of ACPM and was elected to the International Academy of Aviation & Space
Medicine. He has been part of the Israeli Preventive Services Task Force since
2004, and also serves on two of Israel's
National Health Councils: the Health Promotion Council and the Occupational
Health Council.
As International Regent for the College, he will work to form
partnerships with leading international organizations such as the WHO, as well
as interact with national preventive medicine organizations and societies
worldwide, thereby expanding the ACPM's international member base.