Ronnie Gabay Chen | Inclusive Industrial Design (B.Des) The DAN Department of Creative Human Design, 2018

From the classroom to the frontlines of medical innovation — JMC alumna Ronnie Gabay Chen is helping transform lives through medical industrial design.

After studying at the Jerusalem Multidisciplinary College (JMC), Ronnie entered a highly specialized field that combines medicine, engineering, and design. Today, she works at the 3D Lab at Ichilov Hospital, where she develops customized medical solutions for patients with complex needs.

Her work includes creating titanium bone replacements, customized jaw components, and protective helmets for children, as well as contributing to research that advances the future of personalized medicine.

Before joining Ichilov, Ronnie spent six years at Synergy 3DMed, building expertise in cutting-edge medical technologies. For the past four years, she has also returned to JMC as a lecturer, helping train the next generation of designers entering the field.

One of the areas in which Ronnie has become especially known is veterinary prosthetics. She is currently the only person in Israel creating internal prosthetics for animals, pioneering a highly specialized area of medical design. Among the achievements she is most proud of is developing a prosthetic solution for a vulture suffering from a severe leg injury.

She has also designed a custom leg extension for a woman undergoing treatment for cancer, using advanced design technology to improve both mobility and quality of life.

Ronnie says she would never have entered this field without JMC. The College’s program is unique in Israel for specifically training students in medical industrial design, and her final project at JMC directly opened the door to her career in the field.

We are proud to spotlight Ronnie — a member of the JMC alumni community whose work is advancing medicine, technology, and compassionate care in extraordinary ways.