Wikipedia's first sentence called it “professor and previous chair of ben gurion university 's department of software and information systems enginee”. Today it says “israeli professor”. Sections present on October 6, 2023 no longer exist: “Academics”.
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The opening as it read in 2020
Yuval Shahar , M.D. , Ph.D. , is a professor and previous chair of Ben Gurion University 's Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering , the Josef Erteschik Chair in Information Systems Engineering, and head of the Ben Gurion University (BGU) Medical Informatics Research Center. He is an Israeli computer scientist and physician , and a researcher in the multidisciplinary field of artificial intelligence in medicine , focusing on medical decision-support systems for physicians and for patients, and on automated knowledge discovery from time-oriented clinical data.1 "המחלקה להנדסת מערכות תוכנה ומידע" . in.bgu.ac.il (in Hebrew) . "Medical Informatics Research Center - Home page" . medinfo.ise.bgu.ac.il .
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Yuval Shahar , M.D. , Ph.D. , (1958 -) is an Israel professor, physician, researcher and computer scientist Shahar served as the chair of the Ben Gurion University (BGU) Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering , the Josef Erteschik Chair in Information Systems Engineering, and head of the BGU Medical Informatics Research Center. Shahar's research is on artificial intelligence in medicine, focusing on medical decision-support systems for physicians and for patients, and on automated knowledge discovery from time-oriented clinical data. "המחלקה להנדסת מערכות תוכנה ומידע" . in.bgu.ac.il (in Hebrew) . "Medical Informatics Research Center - Home page" . medinfo.ise.bgu.ac.il .
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The opening as it stood in 2025
Israeli computer scientist Yuval Shahar ( Hebrew : יובל שחר; born 1958) is an Israeli professor, physician, researcher, and computer scientist. Shahar served as the chair of the Ben Gurion University (BGU) Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering , the Josef Erteschik Chair in Information Systems Engineering, and head of the BGU Medical Informatics Research Center. Shahar's research is on artificial intelligence in medicine, focusing on medical decision-support systems for physicians and for patients, and on automated knowledge discovery from time-oriented clinical data. "המחלקה להנדסת מערכות תוכנה ומידע" . in.bgu.ac.il (in Hebrew) . "Medical Informatics Research Center - Home page" . medinfo.ise.bgu.ac.il .
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professor and previous chair of ben gurion university 's department of software and information systems enginee
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israeli professor
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