Nir is a trauma specialist at Schneider Children’s Medical Center working to establish the pediatric trauma service. Outside Schneider’s, Nir provides care in complex pre-hospital settings and teaches trauma and emergency medicine with the Israeli and European Societies for Emergency Medicine and with the Australian National Trauma Research Institute.

He also chairs the Israeli Society of Pediatric Emergency Medicine trauma working group and serves on the National Council for Trauma and Emergency Medicine. A graduate of the Hebrew University School of Medicine, Nir trained in pediatric emergency medicine at Rambam Medical Center and in trauma at The Alfred, Australia’s largest trauma service. Following a PhD in neuroscience at the Weizmann Institute, his research at Tel Aviv University focuses on trauma and leverages multidisciplinary teams and large datasets. projects have been published in leading trauma, anesthesia and emergency medicine journals. When he’s not at the hospital, you’ll likely find him running, cycling, or exploring nature with his kids and Canaan shepherd.