Anat Jaffe, MD PhD., MD Endocrinologist and a PhD in physiology from Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv. In 1998 Dr. Jaffe founded an Endocrine Unit at Hillel Yaffe Medical Center. Dr. Jaffe developed and implemented a new approach, Community-Hospital Integrative Model, for the treatment of chronically ill patients living in culturally diverse population, who encounter financial, cultural, linguistic, and service oriented barriers when seeking medical care. As a part of this approach, Dr. Jaffe founded in 1999 a community-based outreach project (Tene Briut) to raise awareness and treat diabetes that was unknown and becoming rapidly prevalent amongst Ethiopian Immigrants. 2008-2012 Dr. Jaffe served as the secretary of the Israeli Endocrine Society (IES) and was the leading force in intra-organizational changes and the joining of IES to the Israeli Medical Association. In 2014 Dr. Jaffe took a major role in writing and editing the document “Endocrinology 2020”; which provides updated insights to the role of Endocrinology in dealing with the increasing burden of chronic metabolic diseases in Israel. Dr. Jaffe is a clinician and socio-medical activist whose main research areas are health disparities in Israel. Jaffe@hy.health.gov.il