Dr. László Csiba PhD

About

Professor at the University of Debrecen, neurologist, psychiatrist, director of the Neurology Clinic for 25 years.

He spends three semesters at the Max Planck Institute in Cologne, one semester in Japan and one in France. He has used his experience abroad to develop his clinic into one of the country’s leading stroke centres, an internationally recognised teaching centre and a research centre for German, Dutch and Japanese doctors. He is a visiting professor at several universities abroad, former president of the European Society of Neurosonology and currently president of the Hungarian Society for Neurology. He has been voted lecturer of the year eight times by his students. He has been awarded numerous honours (Francis Crick, Albert Szentgyörgyi Award of the Order of the Hungarian Republic). Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 2016.

The city of Debrecen awarded him the Pro Urbe prize in 2018. His main field of interest is stroke but he also deals with other diseases in the field of neurology. He has written two volumes of short stories, mainly on medicine, entitled “Please dissect me” and “Who the Big Water Swept Away”. The former has been translated into English, German, Romanian and Serbian.

Professional curriculum vitae

Personal data

Name Dr. László Csiba PhD

• Date and place of birth: 10 May 1952 Sajószentpéter
• 1980 Specialist examination in neurology
• 1985 Specialist examination in psychiatry
• 1990 Scientific degree, Candidate of Medicine 13 033/1990
• 1992 Habilitation
• 1999 Doctorate in Sciences 3773/1999
• 2016 MTA corresponding member

POST-CLOSURE ACTIVITY, TRIPS ABROAD

• 1981 October – 1983 December Visiting Researcher, Max-Planck-Inst. for Neurol. Res., Cologne
• 1986 May – 1987 March Visiting Researcher, Neurosurgical Dept. of Chugoku Rousai Hospital, Kure City/Hiroshima, Japan
• 1991 February – August Toulouse, CHU Purpan, INSERM, France
• 1992 – 2019 Professor, Head of Department (Department of Neurology, Debrecen)

MEMBERSHIP OF SCIENTIFIC BODIES, RESEARCH ORGANISATION

• 1994 – Vice-President of the Hungarian Society of Neurologists and Mental Health Practitioners
• 1996 – 1999 founder and first president of the Hungarian Neurosonological Society
• 1997 – Neurosonology Research Group of World Fed. of Neurol. Executive Committee
• 2000 – Head of German-Hungarian, Japanese-Hungarian, Bavarian-Hungarian, French-Hungarian intergovernmental scientific cooperation
• 2001 – Honorary member of the Austrian Stroke Society
• 2001 – Board member of the European Society of Neurosonology and Cerebral Hemodynamics
• 2003 – Member of the MTA Doctoral and Rehabilitation Committee
• 2003 – Stroke journal Editorial Board member
• 2003 – American Heart Association Intern. Stroke Conf. Scientific Committee
• 2004 – President of the Hungarian Stroke Society
• 2004 – International Stroke Society Board of Directors
• 2012 – President of the European Cooperation Committee of the European Federation of Neurological Societies
• 2006 – Editorial Board, International Journal of Stroke
• 2010 – Corresponding Member of German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology and Functional Imaging
• 2011 – Advances in Venous Arterial Thrombosis – Editorial Advisory Board
• 2011 – Visiting Professor of University of Novi Sad, Serbia
• 2012 – Israel Neurological Association- visiting professor
• 2013 – Visiting professor of the “Iliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Cluj-Napoca
• 2013 – Scientific Board of Emergency Medicine Search and Rescue Journal (EMSAR) Romania
• 2014 – Targu Mures University of Medicine and Pharmacy Cluj-Napoca visiting professor
• 2015 – President of the Hungarian Society for Neurology
• 2015 – Member of Academia Europaea
• 2016 – Member of the Neurology Section of the College of Neurology
• 2016 – Corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• 2017 – Member of the Review Committee of the Hungarian Higher Education Accreditation Commission
• 2017 – Health Science Council Research Development Committee member

AWARDS AND PRIZES

• 1991 – Markusovszky Prize
• 1994 – European Stroke Conference Award, Stockholm, Sweden
• 1996 – 1st Prize of the European Conference on Hemodynamics, Munich
• 1997 – Széchenyi Scholarship (492/97)
• 1998 – TEVA scientific award
• 1999 – Hatvani Prize of the City of Debrecen
• 2003 – László Batthyány-Strattmann Prize
• 2003 – Kálmán Sántha Memorial Medal, for research and teaching
• 2003 – “Teacher of the year” award
• 2006 – “Outstanding Teacher” award from the Faculty of Medicine
• 2006 – DEOEC, Best Clinical Communication of the Year Award
• 2007 – Markhot Ferenc Memorial Medal
• 2007 – “Teacher of the year” award
• 2008 – “Teacher of the year” award
• 2009 – “Teacher of the year” award
• 2009 – Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary
• 2009 – 2013 European Society of Neurosonology and Cerebral Hemodynamics President
• 2010 – Markusovszky Prize for outstanding publication
• 2010 – “Teacher of the year” award
• 2011 – “Teacher of the year” award
• 2011 – Augusta Medallion
• 2011 – European Society of Neurosonology, 2nd prize at the Hemodynamic Conference Munich
• 2012 – “Teacher of the year” award
• 2012 – Francis Crick Prize
• 2013 – Astellas Prize
• 2014 – Albert Szent-Györgyi Prize
• 2014 – “OUAS Teacher of the Year” Award
• 2015 – Tankó Béla Memorial Award
• 2016 – “Teacher of the Year Award”
• 2018 – Dr. Antal Generisich Award
• 2018 – Pro Urbe ‘Debrecen’

PUBLICATIONS

• 295 journal articles, 1 book, 13 book chapters, 11 proceedings. IF: 381.8
• total citations: 4770, independent citations: 4010, Hirsch index: 31.