Shmuel P ReisDr. Reis is a family physician in northern Israel, serving within an integrated health and social services centre he pioneered over 37 years ago. He is also an associate editor of the lead scientific journal in the domain of patient-doctor communicaton (Patient Education and Counselling). He served as the Israeli principal investigator in multinational European research projects (IMPROVE, EUROPEP), coordinated the Galil Center for Medical Informatics and Telemedicine at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and is currently the PI for a research study of primary care physicians' communication skills in the computerized environment, conducted at the Israeli National Simulation Center. He teaches an innovative course on the doctor in the digital age in his institution, and incorporates computer related skills in the clinical skills course he oversees. He supervises two PhD students who conduct research on tools to assess communication in the computerized setting, and interventions to enhance those skills. He is the co-editor of Patients and Doctors: Life-Changing Stories From Primary Care (1999) and has written and lectured widely on his topics of interest including assessment of students and physicians, Holocaust and Medicine, and patient-doctor-computer communication. Read More Read Less