Gil Zalsman

Gil Zalsman (Hebrew: גיל זלסמן; born in 1964 in Givatayim, Israel) is an Israeli psychiatrist and child psychiatrist, the Director of the Geha Mental Health Center, Petah Tikva, Israel, where he also heads the Adolescent Day Unit.

Biography Zalsman was born in 1964 in the town of Givatayim in Israel as the elder among the three children of an Electronics practical engineer and an accountant. He studied medicine at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is a full professor in psychiatry at the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University and a former executive committee member of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP), serving as the chair of its educational committee.

Zalsman is the president of the Israel Society of Biological Psychiatry (ISBP) and an ongoing associate research scientist in the Neuroscience Department at Columbia University.