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Gastroenterologie
a hepatologie

Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Editorial board

Executive editorial board

Editor-in-Chief

Prof. Milan Lukáš, MD, PhD, AGAF
The Clinical and Research Centre for Inflammatory Diseases
ISCARE I.V.F. a.s.
Českomoravská 2510/19, 190 00 Prague 9
milan.lukas@email.cz



* 1959

  • graduated from the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, in 1984;
  • awarded his gastroenterology certificate in 1993;
  • current position: Head of the ISCARE Lighthouse Clinical Centre in Prague;
  • more than 200 papers published in domestic and international journals;
  • professional and research interest: idiopathic intestinal inflammation;
  • memberships: CGS, AGA, ECCO, IOIBD.

Editor for Slovak Republic

Assoc. Prof. Tomáš Koller, MD, PhD
5th Department of Internal Medicine, UH Bratislava
Slovak Republic
koller.tomas@gmail.com



* 1973
Assoc. Prof. Koller graduated in 1998 from the Faculty of Medicine of Comenius University in Bratislava. In 2010, he passed a specialisation exam and was awarded a diploma for Internal Medicine at the Slovak Medical University in Bratislava. In 2004, he obtained the Attestation de formation specialisée in gastroenterology and hepatology at Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris. In 2004, he passed a specialisation exam and was awarded a diploma in gastroenterology. In 2008, he was awarded a PhD at the Faculty of Medicine of Comenius University, specialising in internal medicine. In 2009, he passed a specialisation examination and was awarded a diploma in hepatology. In 2016, he became a docent of internal medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of Comenius University in Bratislava. In 2017, he passed a specialisation exam and obtained a diploma in internal medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of Comenius University in Bratislava. Since 2015, he has worked at the Department of Internal Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine of Comenius University in Bratislava as a gastroenterologist and hepatologist. He specialises in ultrasonography and endoscopic ultrasonography, hepatology, inflammatory bowel diseases, and the diagnosis of liver fibrosis.
He sits on the SHS, SGS, and AASLD committees and is co-editor of an issue on gastrointestinal oncology.

Editorial Board

Assoc. Prof. Peter Bánovčin, jr, MD, PhD
Jessenius Faculty of Medicine in Martin

Assoc. Prof. Martin Bortlík, MD, PhD
Gastroenterology Department, Hospital České Budějovice

Prof. Radan Brůha, MD, PhD
4th Department of Internal Medicine, Charles University in Prague, First Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital in Prague, Prague

Iveta Čierna, MD, PhD
Paediatric faculty hospital with polyclinic, Bratislava

Prof. Martin Fried, MD, PhD
OB Clinic, Prague

Assoc. Prof. Tibor Hlavatý, MD, PhD
Hospital Ružinov – UN Bratislava

Prof. Tomáš Hucl, MD, PhD
Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague

Katarína Mitrová, MD, PhD
Department of Paediatrics, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Charles university in Prague and Motol University Hospital, Prague

Ľubomír Skladaný, MD, PhD
HEGITO (Division of Hepatology, Gastroenterology and Liver Transplantation), Department of Internal Medicine II, Slovak Medical University, F. D. Roosevelt University Hospital, Banska Bystrica

Assoc. Prof. Štěpán Suchánek, MD, PhD
Department of Internal Medicine, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Military University Hospital, Prague

Prof. Julius Špičák, MD, PhD
Hepatogastroenterology Department, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague

Prof. Vladimír Teplan, MD, PhD
Department of Nephrology, Transplant Centre, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague

Assoc. Prof. Ondřej Urban, MD, PhD
Digestive Diseases Center, Vítkovice Hospital, Ostrava, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ostrava, Ostrava

Eduard Veseliny, MD, PhD
1st Department of Internal Medicine, P. J. Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Medicine and L. Pasteur University Hospital, Košice

Kristýna Zárubová, MD
Department of Paediatrics of the 2nd Faculty of Medicine of Charles University and the University Hospital Motol, Praha


Co-editors

Assoc. Prof. Martin Bortlík, MD, PhD

Co-editor of the IBD section
mbortlik@seznam.cz



* 1970
He graduated from the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, in 1994. In 2000, he was awarded his gastroenterology certificate. In 2009, he completed his postgraduate studies at the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University (Ph.D.).
Memberships: CGS and ECCO. Since 2008, he has been the Czech Republic’s national ECCO representative. Author or co-author of approximately 110 publications in Czech and foreign scientific literature. He was employed at the General University Hospital in Prague from 1994, from 2007 at the ISCARE Clinical and Research Centre for Intestinal Inflammation and the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague. His current place of work is Gastroenterology Department, Hospital České Budějovice. His main area of interest is idiopathic intestinal inflammation.

Prof.  Radan Brůha, MD, PhD
Co-editor of the Hepatology section
bruha@cesnet.cz



* 1964
He has long specialised in chronic liver diseases, portal hypertension, and other complications of liver cirrhosis, metabolic liver diseases and biliary diseases.
In 1988, he joined the 1st Department of Internal Medicine at the General University Hospital in Prague. In 2001, he was awarded his habilitation at the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague.
He currently works at the 4th Department of Internal Medicine at the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, and General University Hospital in Prague. He is a member of the Czech Society of Gastroenterology. In the last decade, he has also sat on the society’s committee and since 2010 he has been its vice-president. He contributes to postgraduate education in hepatogastroenterology.

Assoc. Prof. Ondřej Urban, MD, PhD
Co-editor of the Digestive Endoscopy section
ondrej.urban@fnol.cz



* 1965
He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of Palacký University Olomouc in 1989. He passed his first- and second-degree certification examinations in internal medicine and gastroenterology. In 2006, he was awarded his Ph.D. He was the head of the Gastroenterology Centre at Vítkovice Hospital in Ostrava and assistant professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ostrava; now works as head of II. internal clinics – gastroenterological and geriatric LF UP and FN Olomouc, his main professional interest is therapeutic digestive endoscopy. He has published 46 papers in Czech and foreign journals. Chairman of the Czech Society of Gastroenterology of the Czech Medical Association J. E. Purkyne.

Prof. Tomáš Hucl, MD, PhD
Co-editor of the Clinical and Experimental Gastroenterology section
tohu@ikem.cz



*1975
He graduated from the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, in 2000 and subsequently joined the Hepatogastroenterology Department, Transplantation Centre, IKEM, Prague, where he works to this day. He has held research fellowships at the University of Heidelberg and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. The main topic of his research activities is the molecular biology of pancreatic cancer. In 2008, he defended his Ph.D. thesis on this subject and in 2015 he was awarded his habilitation. In 2012, he was elected to the European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy committee, and since 2014 he has chaired its educational committee. In 2015, he was elected a member of the Endoscopy section of the Czech Society of Gastroenterology and a new member of the Editorial Board of Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

Assoc. Prof. Štěpán Suchánek, MD, PhD
Co-editor of the Gastrointestinal Oncology section
stepan.suchanek@uvn.cz



*1976
He earned his MUDr. degree at the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, in 2002. In 2009, he passed his certification in gastroenterology. Postgraduate studies (4th year): Faculty of Military Health Sciences, University of Defence. 2002–present: Department of Internal Medicine, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, and Military University Hospital Prague. Since 2009, he has been the head of the Endoscopy Unit and the Centre for Experimental Endoscopy. Memberships: Czech Society of Gastroenterology, Society for Gastrointestinal Oncology (Science Secretary), Council for Colorectal Cancer Screening of the Czech Society of Gastroenterology (Science Secretary), Commission for CRC Screening of the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic, European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE), American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE). He was awarded the ASNEMGE National Scholar Award at the United European Gastroenterology Week (UEGW) in Barcelona in 2010.

Prof. Martin Fried, MD, PhD
Co-editor of the Bariatrics section
martin.fried@obklinika.cz



*1956
Prof. Fried specialises in minimally invasive abdominal surgery. He graduated from the Faculty of General Medicine, Charles University in Prague. In 1982, he began working at the 1st Department of Surgery, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, and General University Hospital in Prague. From 1994 to 2001, he headed the department. Since the early 1990s, he has specialised in bariatric and metabolic surgery in the treatment of obesity and type 2 diabetes. In 1993, he became the first surgeon in the world to perform laparoscopic surgery – non-adjustable gastric banding in obese patients. In 2005, he was appointed professor of surgery at the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague. Since 2009, he has been the head of the OB Clinic in Prague, the largest centre for the bariatric-metabolic treatment of obesity and associated metabolic disorders in the Czech Republic. In 1989 and 1990, he worked as a senior secondary-care physician in Glasgow, Scotland, and from 2001 to 2002 he was head surgeon at the hospital in Livingston, UK. Prof. Fried performs surgery and delivers lectures in his home country and abroad. He has trained surgeons from the US, the UK, Spain, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, and other countries. He is a member of a number of Czech and international professional societies. He currently sits, for example, on the committee at IFSO (International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders) and is the executive director of its European section (IFSO-EC). Prof. Fried is a member of several editorial boards, including Perspectives in Surgery and Obesity Surgery and Obesity Facts. He joined the editorial board of Gastroenterology and Hepatology in August 2016.

Kateřina Zárubová, MD
Co-editor of the Paediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology section
zarubova.kristyna@gmail.com



*1985
Doctor Zárubová graduated from the First Faculty of Medicine of Charles University in 2011. Immediately afterwards, she spent several months at the Department of Paediatrics at the hospital in Rakovník. In November of the same year, she moved on to the Department of Paediatrics at the Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and Motol University Hospital, where she worked in the Department of Paediatric Gastroenterology. It was here that she decided to specialise in this field. In 2017, MUDr. Zárubová went on maternity leave. However, she has remained a student under the Ph.D. programme in Biochemistry and Pathobiochemistry, focusing on paediatric IBD, where she enrolled in 2016. During her current parental leave, she has served at the Department of Neonatology and the emergency room at the hospital in Nymburk, and occasionally stands in for a paediatric GP in Prague-Vinoř. Since 2018, she has also lectured on the Czech Medical Chamber’s paediatric courses. Dr Zárubová has co-authored dozens of articles on paediatric IBD.


Editor

Kateřina Michnová, MSc.
katerina.michnova@carecomm.cz



* 1982
Graduate of the Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University, Brno
Currently working as the editor-in-chief of medical titles at the publishing house Care Comm s.r.o.

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