Attila Naszlady

One of the "grand old men" of the Hungarian medical community, an outstanding personality not only in healing and medicine, but also in healthcare and hospital management. One of the pioneers and frontrunners of domestic IT. He had an outstanding scientific career. His work was recognized with several domestic and foreign awards.

Between 1958-59 he was a physician at the Esztergom City Hospital, from 1972 he was the chief physician of the National Korányi Pulmonary Medicine Institute, from 1992 to 1996 he was the chief physician of the director general. Between 1996 and 2007 he was the volunteer national head of the health service of the Hungarian Maltese Charity Service, from 1996 to 2006 he was the chief physician of the director general of the Buda Order of Mercy Hospital (BIK).

He lived for the community, but in the meantime he had an outstanding scientific career. In 1980 he received the title of Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

From 1992 to 1993, he was a Ministerial Commissioner for Health, and an alternate member of the Ethics Committee of the Batthyány Circle of Professors. Since 2002, he has been a member of the Presidency of the Health Science Council and a member of the Council of Hundreds.
He was the Vice President and then President of the European Federation Medical Informatics (EFMI), and the Vice President of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA).

His areas of expertise include cardiology, internal medicine and informatics.

His awards: Excellent Teacher (1986); Hungarian Academy of Sciences scientific awards (1974 and 1978); Kalmár Award (NJSZT, 1985); Zoltán Bay Award; Excellent Doctor (1991); knighted in Bouillon Castle (Belgium, 1993); Dénes Gábor Award (Novofer Foundation, 1998); Gold Cross of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (1999); European Cardiologist (2000); Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (2006).