The participants attending a conference in Oradea, Romania, could watch a live broadcast of catheter procedures performed at the Cardiology and Heart Surgery Clinic of the Clinical Center of the University of Debrecen. It was the most recent solutions for a minimally invasive treatment of complete coronary artery occlusion that were presented at this Romanian-Hungarian professional forum as well as during the training course preceding it.
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Thoracic Surgery Department (TSD) of the Surgical Clinic of the University of Debrecen has once again received accreditation from the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS), confirming that this institution provides European-level care to patients. TSD first earned this prestigious international certification back in 2012, becoming the first such institution in Eastern Europe to do so. Since then, the certificate has had to be reearned every five years based on strict criteria.
Dr. Ildikó Horváth, Director of the Pulmonology Clinic and Professor of the University of Debrecen, will be serving for the next three years as Secretary General of the European Respiratory Society (ERS). The new leader was elected last year and she was formally inducted at the most recent conference of this European organization. She will be the first Hungarian professional to hold the high position of Secretary General.