Dr. Lihi Bar-Lev Schleider is a clinical researcher and medical director with 18 years of experience in randomized placebo-controlled trials and real-world evidence studies in medical cannabis. She earned her PhD in Epidemiology at Ben-Gurion University under the mentorship of Prof. Raphael Mechoulam and Prof. Victor Novack.

She has led clinical studies across multiple indications, including cancer, dementia, cerebral palsy, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, autism, fibromyalgia, and more. She established and directed Israel’s largest medical cannabis real-world data registry, evaluating both short- and long-term outcomes, and played a key role in shaping Israeli regulations by enabling new treatment indications. Her work has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals, with more than 2,200 citations (h-index 16).

She currently serves as Medical Director of Udica K Farm (Thailand) and as an Advisory Board Member at Tikun Olam USA.