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Yehuda Shoenfeld is the founder and former head of the Zabludowicz Center for Autoimmune Diseases,and also Head of Department of Medicine,at the Sheba Medical Center, affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel. Professor Shoenfeld was also the Incumbent of the Laura Schwarz-Kipp Chair for Research of Autoimmune Diseases at the Tel-Aviv University.In the years 2021, 2022 he acted as thepresidentof Ariel University in Israel. Professor Shoenfeld is clinical and scientific works focus on autoimmune and rheumatic diseases, and he has published more than 2280 papers in journals such as New Eng J Med, Nature, Lancet, Proc Nat AcadScie, J Clin Invest, J Immunol, Blood, FASEB, J Exp Med, Circulation, Cancer and others. His articles have had over 83,000 citations. His Scopus h-index is 125. He has written more than 350 chapters in books, and has authored and edited 40 books, some of which became cornerstones in science and clinical practice, such as "The Mosaic of Autoimmunity", "Infections and Autoimmunity" and the textbook "Autoantibodies" and "Diagnostic criteria of autoimmune diseases", all of which were published by Elsevier and sold thousands of copies. Professor Shoenfeldis on the editorial boards of 43 journals in the field of rheumatology and autoimmunity and is the founder and the editor of the IMAJ (Israel Medical Association Journal) the representative journal of science and medicine in the English language in Israel, and also is the founder and Editor of Autoimmunity Reviews (Elsevier) (Impact factor 9.975) and co-Editor of the Journal of Autoimmunity (Impact factor 7.094). For the last twenty years Professor Shoenfeld has been the Editor of Harefuah The Israel journal in medicine (Hebrew). Professor Shoenfeld received the EULAR prize in 2005, in Vienna, Austria: "The infectious aetiology of anti-phospholipid syndrome", and received a gold medal from the Slovak Society of Physicians for his contribution to Israel � Slovakia collaboration (March 2006). He is also an honorary member of the Hungarian Association of Rheumatology and the Royal Society of Physicians (UK). In UC Davis, USA, Professor Shoenfeld received the Nelson's Prize for Humanity and Science for 2008. In 2009 he was honoured as Doctoris Honoris Causa, from Debrecen University (Hungary) and Hasselt University in Belgium (2018), and from 2009 he is honorary member of the Slovenian National Academy of Sciences. He was recently awarded a Life Contribution Prize in Internal Medicine in Israel, 2012 as well as the ACR Master Award in 2013.In 2018 he was elected to the Israeli Academy of Sciences. In 2020 he was elected as "Best immunology scientists in Israel" and as "Best medicine scientist in Israel" (No. of citations). In 2023 He received EFIM (European Federation of Internal Medicine) Life Achievement Award in research medicine was presented during the European Congress of Internal Medicine, ECIM 2023 in Athens, Greece: "For your dedication, achievement, and contribution in internal medicine throughout your professional career. Your experience and dedication proved you as a role model to many physicians around Europe". Currently he is Professor of Medicien in Reichman University. Professor Shoenfeld has educated a long list of students with >70 becoming heads of departments and institutes.