Experts connected with the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry of Palacký University have once again made it into Forbes magazine’s list of the fifty best doctors in the Czech Republic, professionals who studied there, work there, or are otherwise affiliated with the Faculty.
One of them is František Kopřiva from the Department of Pediatrics of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry of Palacký University and University Hospital Olomouc. He is one of the founders of pediatric pulmonology in the Czech Republic and recently received the Medal for Merit in Science and Healthcare from the President of the Czech Republic, Petr Pavel.
“Our work is not the work of an individual, but of the whole team. That’s also how I view these awards, although they are presented under my name, they belong to our entire staff. And far more important than the awards and honours themselves are the results of caring for the health of our pediatric patients,” he said.
Also selected among the fifty best Czech doctors was Karel Pacák, a specialist in endocrine tumours, especially adrenal tumours, who has been working closely with the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry of Palacký University since returning from the United States.
As in previous years, the selection also included psychiatrist and psychotherapist Ján Praško Pavlov from the Department of Psychiatry of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry of Palacký University and University Hospital Olomouc, as well as Olomouc graduates, plastic surgeon Bohdan Pomahač and ophthalmologist Pavel Stodůlka.
Another selected graduate of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry of Palacký University is neurologist Daniel Václavík, who is head of the Neurology Department at AGEL Hospital in Ostrava-Vítkovice. Another doctor included in the selection who works in Ostrava is Ondřej Šimetka, head of the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Ostrava and University Hospital Ostrava, who completed his doctoral studies at the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry of Palacký University.
You can find the complete list of the fifty best doctors in the Czech Republic, selected by Forbes magazine on the basis of consultations and expert review, here.