Dr. Ralph Z. Kern, MD, MHSc has been Chief Operating Officer and Chief Medical Officer of Brainstorm Cell Therapeutics Inc. since March 6, 2017. Dr. Kern's previous industry appointments include Head of Neuroscience Medical Unit at Novartis and Global Medical Director of Personalized Genetic Health at Genzyme Corporation. Dr. Kern is an influential leader, consensus builder and strategic advisor with expertise translating science into global solutions for patient care. He served as Senior Vice President and Head of Worldwide Medical at Biogen, where he was a powerful contributor to Biogen's reputation as a world leader in biopharmaceutical innovation. He helped define the company's therapeutic area and medical/scientific strategies for Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, spinal muscular atrophy, Parkinson's, neuro-degeneration and hemophilia. From 2011 to 2014, Dr. Kern served as Vice President and Head of Neuroscience Medical Unit at Novartis, where he developed and directed strategy, budget and advanced medical-commercial governance model for neuroscience. His team executed the medical and strategic plan for Gilenya???, administered to more than 150,000 patients worldwide. From 2006 to 2011, Dr. Kern was Global Medical Director of Personalized Genetic Health at Genzyme Corporation (now Sanofi Genzyme) where he championed global medical affairs and medical and scientific activities for Fabry disease life cycle management. From 2003 to 2006, he was University Neurology Program Director at the University of Toronto, where he developed the curriculum for post-graduate education in neurology and neurology bioethics, defined and evaluated training requirements for students and faculty and directed all operations of neurology post-graduate academic programs. Previously, he was a Neurologist Consultant at Mount Sinai Hospital, where he played a central role in identifying and publishing the first scientific description of central nervous system complications from the West Nile Virus epidemic in 2003. From 1988 to 2001, he was Director, EMG, EEG and Evoked Potential Laboratory at The Credit Valley Hospital, where he served on the Medicine Executive Committee and facilitated principal-investigator clinical trials for headache, epilepsy and stroke. Dr. Kern studied in the undergraduate Neurophysiology program at McGill University, received a Doctor of Medicine from Queen's University, completed post-graduate studies in neurology and neurophysiology at McGill University and a Master of Health Sciences (MHSc in Health Administration) from the University of Toronto.