Sidney Klajner is a General and Colorectal Surgeon and President of the Sociedade Beneficente Israelita Brasileira Albert Einstein – one of the TOP 50 Best Hospitals in the Newsweek Ranking since 2019. In 2023, he joined the Board of Directors of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) after 10 years of a strategic alliance maintained by Einstein and IHI.
Since 2018, he has been a member of the Advisory Board of the University of São Paulo Medical School Foundation. Additionally, Dr Klajner is a visiting professor at the Executive MBA in Health Management at the Einstein Institute of Teaching and Research.
Since 2016, he has been leading the digital health transformation at Hospital Albert Einstein: fostering a culture of incorporating cutting-edge software, digitalization of processes, and extensive use of data, technologies, and technological tools among others in private and public sectors. With his leadership in emerging healthcare technologies, he was invited last year to speak at South by South West (SXSW) – the largest festival of innovation and technology in the world – being the first speaker of a Brazilian health organization.
In the editorial area, he published the book “The Digital Revolution in Health” (Editora dos Editores). He is also among the 10 Brazilian leaders with the most relevant presence on LinkedIn, according to the ranking of the GV Executivo magazine from the Getulio Vargas Foundation; and has been Top Voice in Health on the social network since 2020.