Mor Saban PhD

Dr. Mor Saban, PhD, is a senior faculty member and Head of the Accelerated Program for Academic Graduates in the Department of Nursing, at the School of Health Professions, Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University. In addition, Dr. Saban directs the DataMED Lab, a research laboratory dedicated to evaluating the effectiveness of health technologies, developing optimization models for patient prioritization, and examining clinical decision-making processes through the integration of GenAI (LLMs/LMMs), NLP, and ML methods.

Dr. Saban holds a Bachelor's degree in Nursing and has two additional Master's degrees in Nursing, Public Health, and Emergency Medicine. She obtained her Doctorate directly from the University of Haifa, specializing in decision-making processes and their impact on the quality of care in the Emergency Medicine department. Between 2020 and 2021, she completed post-doctoral training in the field of healthcare systems policy and management, focusing on the use of decision support systems in medicine at Ben-Gurion University. Furthermore, from 2022 to 2023, Dr. Saban furthered her academic education in the field of Data Science with a specialization in Machine Learning at Bar Ilan University.

Dr. Saban also serves as a senior researcher at the Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research at the Center for Health Policy and Medical Innovation. Her academic as well as practical work at the Institute includes aspects of improving health policy, implementing and evaluating decision support systems, and developing optimization models for the optimal allocation of resources in the healthcare system. During her work at the Institute, she served as head of the Department of Waiting Time Measurement in Israeli Hospitals and led a national process to implement a decision support system for ordering imaging tests (projects of the Ministry of Health).

Dr. Saban's research focuses on decision-making processes in the clinical field and the impact of decision support systems on medical decision-making. In recent years, Dr. Saban has been involved in pioneering projects on diagnosing remote life-threatening conditions, such as stroke, using AI-based systems. She has also played a key role in integrating LLMs and LMMs tools into the clinical field (such as ED).