Rabbi Yossi Sprung grew up in Yerushalayim and attended Yeshivas Brisk. He received smicha from HaGaon HaRav Asher Weiss shlit”a as part of the Beit Medrash for Leadership Training Minchas Asher, as well as from other gedolim in Eretz Yisrael. From 2001 to 2003, he served  as Rosh Kollel in the community Kollel in San Antonio Texas, lecturing extensively on topics in Medical Halacha and Medical Ethics. Upon returning to Israel, Rabbi Sprung was a faculty member in Yeshivat Ohr Yerushalayim – a yeshiva for post-high school American students. Since 2004, Rabbi Sprung has served as the senior halachic assistant and Rosh Kollel for his Rebbe Muvhak, HaRav Asher Weiss shlit”a. In this capacity, Rav Yossi has dealt with many complex halachic questions relating to medicine and medical ethics and has organized medical halacha conferences all over the world. Rabbi Sprung is also the founder and Dean of the Institute for Halachic Implications of Emerging Technologies.