Prof. Dr. Zoltán Szabó
He graduated summa cum laude in 1997 with a degree in General Medicine from the University of Debrecen. He is a board-certified specialist in internal medicine (2002), cardiology (2005), oxyology and emergency medicine (2012), clinical pharmacology (2013), and pediatric emergency medicine (2024). He also holds specialist qualifications in hypertension and echocardiography. In 2021, he obtained a certified degree in healthcare management. He earned his PhD in 2005, completed his habilitation in 2014, and has been a Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 2021. He was appointed as a university professor in 2020.
He is the founding director of Hungary’s first Department of Emergency Medicine. Since 2015, he has served as the regional president of the national emergency medicine professional board. Since 2017, he has been Head of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine and the Department of Emergency and Oxyology at the Faculty of Health Sciences, both at the University of Debrecen. Since 2019, he has been a member of the Executive Board of the Hungarian Association for Emergency Medicine and Chair of its Education Committee.
Since 2021, he has been the President of the Clinical Centre of the University of Debrecen, and since 2023, as deputy rector of the University. He is a member of numerous scientific societies and holds leading editorial roles in several international medical journals.