Lipman (Ben Shlomo) Heilprin (Hebrew: ליפמן היילפרין) (1902 - 26 September 1968) was an Israeli physician and director of the Nerological Department of Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital.
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Heilprin was born in Bialystok, Poland (then part of the Russian Empire), in 1902 and studied in Germany, from where he emigrated in 1934 to the then British Mandate of Palestine.
In 1952, Heilprin composed the Hebrew Hippocratic Oath.
Heilprin was the first recipient of the Israel Prize for medicine, which was awarded to him in 1953, the inaugural year of the prize.[1]
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