Senior physician
Soroka Medical Center, Israel
Dr. Yael Yagel is a senior physician at the Infectious Disease Institute at Soroka University Medical
Center (SUMC) a 1,100-bed referral hospital providing medical care for over 1,000,000 people in the
southern part of Israel. She specializes in infections in obstetrics and gynecology, focusing on maternal CMV infections, urinary tract infections of pregnancy, and pelvic inflammatory disease, and zoonotic infections, namely rickettsial infections, and brucellosis. Dr. Yagel is a faculty member of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.