Dr. Gergely Holnapy PhD

About

I try to approach patients with maximum knowledge and maximum courtesy.

Dr. Gergely Holnapy was already oriented towards the manual professions during his university studies, and as a fourth-year student he wrote a rector's proposal on a treatment method used in paediatric orthopaedics. From there it was a straight road to the present day, full of conferences and fellowships in this country, in Europe and abroad.

„I was at Semmelweis University when the gates were opened to make it easier to travel, not just for tourism, but also for professional reasons. If you want to go in a certain direction, to get more information, you need to experience other treatment approaches, other therapies, so that you can develop your own method. That's why the experience gained abroad and at home was extremely important.”

Outside of work, he loves cycling for sport and skiing in winter.

„Exercise is part of my life, although in this hectic world it's not easy to find time to relax. However, in the rush of everyday life, taking care of patients becomes even more precious.” - says Dr Gergely Holnapy.

In his view, professional knowledge is only one of the factors that can improve the lives of patients. However, the circumstances in which we approach patients, the level of explanation, care and empathy, also play at least as important a role.

„This is particularly true in the case of paediatric patients, where we often have to talk to children and their parents about the problem in a different light, but at the same time. These two communications can be very different, yet they are equally important.”

As an orthopaedic specialist, he specialises in adult orthopaedics and also treats a number of paediatric patients here at the practice. He says that many children are brought in for examination when parents are unsure about a developmental change. They want to confirm from an orthopaedic professional's perspective whether this is normal or abnormal growth or change. Fortunately, these changes are more often in their normal direction than abnormal.

Professional curriculum vitae

Personal data

Name Dr. Gergely Holnapy

Name of workplace Semmelweis University Budapest, Orthopaedic Clinic

Jobs

• Since 1999 clinical physician Semmelweis University Orthopaedic Clinic
• From 2006 assistant professor, orthopaedic traumatologist
• Healing activity Semmelweis University Orthopaedic Clinic
• Teaching activities Hungarian and English tutor, English classroom lectures, English study supervisor, TDK tutor, English thesis supervisor
• Research activity gait and movement assessment of patients with degenerative lower limb disorders, Biomechanical assessment of children with idiopathic scoliosis
• PhD thesis title (in progress) Effect of different types of hip joint dissections on dynamic balancing ability and gait regularity at six months after hip replacement

Studies

• 1987 - 1991. ELTE Radnóti Miklós Practical High School
• 1992 - 1999. Semmelweis University of Medicine, Faculty of General Medicine (thesis topic:
• „Treatment of limb malformations”, the In 1997 complementing the first prize Rector's competition with research at the University of Leuven, led by Prof. Dr Tibor Vízkelety)
• 2006 Specialist examination in orthopaedic traumatology (Semmelweis University Budapest)
• 2010 Semmelweis University Doctoral School, 2/8 Physiology of the support and locomotor system (Clinical Medicine)

Language skills

• English: intermediate state language examination, 1992.
• French: intermediate state language examination, 1990.
• Russian: intermediate state language examination, 1990.

Study abroad

• 1997 3 months in orthopaedics: Universitaire Ziekenhuisen Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Orthopedie Pellenberg (prof. Fabry Guy) (Belgium) TEMPUS scholarship (Limb lengthening and axial correction with Ilizarov device)
• 1998 1 month in Surgery: Hospital Universitário Evangélico de Curitiba (Brazil) HuMSIRC scholarship
• 1998 1 month of surgery: Aix en Provence Centre Hospitalier du Pays d'Aix, Chirurgie générale, viscérale, thoracique et vasculaire (Dr Jean-Marc Jarry) (France)
• 1999 1 month paediatrics: Aix en Provence Centre Hospitalier du Pays d'Aix, Pédiatrie Unité moyens-grands (Dr Dominique Thevenieau) (France)
• 2003 EFORT Travelling Fellowship Munich-Heidelberg-Mannheim-Baden-Baden (Germany) 1 week
• 2004 EFORT Visiting Fellowship: Technische Universitat München (Klinikum rechts der Isar) Klinik und Poliklinik für Orthopadie und Sportortopadie (Germany) 2 weeks
• 2005 Salzburg Weill Cornell Seminar “Bone and Joint Surgery” - Salzburg, Austria, 1 week
• 2009 Palacademy: “Primary Knee Replacements and Modern Cementing Techniques” -Wehrheim (Germany) 3 days
• 2010 XAMOS Regional Investigator Meeting Europe -Barcelona (Spain) 2 days

Congress attendance

• 2001
  44th Congress of the Hungarian Orthopaedic Society -Zalakaros
  Hungarian Traumatology Society's Annual Meeting
  Forum of Young Orthopaedic Doctors - Szolnok
• 2002
  Osteoporosis Rehabilitation National Working Group VI Congress -Dobogókő
  4th Central European Orthopaedic Congress -Cavtat-Dubrovnik
  45th Congress of the Hungarian Orthopaedic Society -Pécs
  Forum of Young Orthopaedic Doctors -Kecskemét
  IX Instructional Course Lectures of EFORT, Krakow
• 2003
  EMSOS Congress -Budapest
  Congress of the South West German Orthopaedic Society -Baden-Baden
  Congress of the Hungarian Osteoporosis and Osteoarthrology Society -Balatonfüred
  46th Congress of the Hungarian Orthopaedic Society -Budapest
  Forum of Young Orthopaedic Doctors - Székesfehérvár
  Alps-Adriatic-Pannonia-Tatra Meating, Ankaran
• 2004
  Congress of the Hungarian Osteoporosis and Osteoarthrology Society -Balatonfüred
  46th Congress of the Hungarian Orthopaedic Society - Szeged
  Forum of Young Orthopaedic Doctors -Kaposvár
• 2005
  7th EFORT Congress -Lisbon
• 2006
  48th Congress of the Hungarian Orthopaedic Society -Budapest
• 2007
  8th EFORT Congress -Florence
• 2008
  27th EPOS Congress -Varsó
  50th Congress of the Hungarian Orthopaedic Society - Székesfehérvár
• 2009
  28th EPOS Congress -Lisbon
  51st Congress of the Hungarian Orthopaedic Society
  Scientific meeting in honour of Professor Thorngren, Budapest.
  Orthopaedics compulsory-levels course
  Hungarian Podiatric Society XIII. annual meeting -Lajosmizse
• 2010
  Course in surgical techniques for specialists
  29th EPOS Congress - Zagreb
  52nd Congress of the Hungarian Orthopaedic Society -Pécs
  11th EFORT Congress - Madrid
• 2011
  12th EFORT Congress -Copenhagen
  53rd Congress of the Hungarian Orthopaedic Society -Pécs
• 2012
  54th Congress of the Hungarian Orthopaedic Society -Győr
• 2013
  55th Congress of the Hungarian Orthopaedic Society -Budapest

Presentations

• 2001
  Rotational failure after pertrochanteric fractures -Hungarian Traumatology Society's Annual Meeting
  Treatment of an osteochondral fracture of unusual size -Hungarian Traumatology Society's Annual Meeting
• 2002
  Bone densitometry studies following treatment of distal radius end fractures. -Osteoporosis Rehabilitation National Working Group VI Congress
  Function and radiomorphomorphometric correlations following treatment of distal radius end fractures -Osteoporosis Rehabilitation National Working Group VI Congress
  Osteodensitometry for evaluation of osteoporosis related to Colles’ fractures. -4th Central European Orthopaedic Congress
  Effectiveness of epidural cannula treatment -45th Congress of the Hungarian Orthopaedic Society
  Bone densitometry of wrist fractures (award-winning presentation) -Young Orthopaedic Doctors Forum
  Experiences with osteodensitometry after distal radius fractures caused by minor trauma -IX. Instructional Course Lectures of EFORT
• 2003
  Experiences with osteodensitometry after distal radius fractures caused by minor trauma -Congress of the South-West German Orthopaedic Society
  Densitometric assessment of wrist fracture patients and functional outcomes of their conservative treatment -Congress of the Hungarian Osteoporosis and Osteoarthrology Society
  From unicondylar resurfacing to tumour knee replacement, or lessons learned from a knee replacement implantation (award-winning presentation)-Young Orthopaedic Doctors Forum
  Pitfalls and lessons of a knee replacement -Alps-Adriatic-Pannonia-Tatra Meating
  From unicondylar resurfacing to tumour knee replacement -Congress of the Hungarian Osteoporosis and Osteoarthrology Society
• 2004
  Follow-up of hip replacement patients under 50 years of age for at least ten years -46th Congress of the Hungarian Orthopaedic Society
  Prospective study of periarticular ossification following hip replacement -46th Congress of the Hungarian Orthopaedic Society
  Results of total hip replacement under the age of fifty. A minimum follow up of ten years -SICOT Congress
  Periarticular ossification after total hip arthroplasty. A prospective study -SICOT Congress
  Baker's cyst or not? Case report of a large plexiform neurofibroma -Young Orthopaedic Doctors Forum
• 2005
  Minimum ten-year follow up of total hip replacement in patients younger than 50 years (díjnyertes poster) -7th EFORT Congress
  Proprioception studies with joint capsule excision or joint capsule preservation in hip replacement patients -47th Congress of the Hungarian Orthopaedic Society
• 2006
  Significance of lower limb proprioception after hip joint endoprosthesis implantation -48th Congress of the Hungarian Orthopaedic Society
  Importance of proprioception after total hip replacement -BioMed Congress
• 2007
  Proprioception after total hip replacement in case of different operative methods -8th EFORT Congress
  From medial resurfacing to tumour knee replacement -Clinicopathology
• 2008
  Case of epiphyseal hemimelic dysplasia with hip localization -50th Congress of the Hungarian Orthopaedic Society
  Case of epiphyseal hemimelic dysplasia with hip localization -Clinicopathology
  Generalised Mycombacterium Bovis BCG infection -The 44th Scientific Meeting of the Hungarian Society of Paediatricians and the Paediatric Pulmonary Section of the Hungarian Society of Respiratory Medicine
• 2009
  Evaluation of calcaneus stop method in the treatment of flexible flatfoot in children -28th EPOS Congress
  Biomechanical assessment in children with juvenile scoliosis -51st Congress of the Hungarian Orthopaedic Society
  Case of epiphyseal hemimelic dysplasia with hip localization -Clinicopathology
  Possible growth plate injury during Pemberton innominate osteotomy -Scientific meeting in honour of Professor Thorngren
  Orthopaedic gait tests -Orthopaedics compulsory-levels course
  Our results and experience with the Ponseti boomfoot treatment method -Hungarian Podiatric Society XIII.
  Calcaneus stop method for the treatment of flexible flat feet in children -Hungarian Podiatric Society XIII.
• 2010
  Dysplasia epiphysealis hemimelica -Surgical technology course for medical specialists
  Deviation of plantar pressure distribution in idiopathic scoliosis -52nd Congress of the Hungarian Orthopaedic Society
  Correction of forearm deformity caused by exostosis cartilaginea multiplex by ulna lengthening - 52nd Congress of the Hungarian Orthopaedic Society
  Correction of forearm deformity with ulnar elongation in patients with multiple exostoses -11th EFORT Congress
• 2011
  Association between the degree of femoral head slippage and the development of hip joint arthrosis in patients with epiphyseolysis -53rd Congress of the Hungarian Orthopaedic Society
• 2012
  Tribological aspects of hip arthroplastyi -Orthopaedics compulsory-levels course
  Effect of hip joint endoprosthesis on balancing ability. -54th Congress of the Hungarian Orthopaedic Society
• 2013
  Effect of the method of hip joint replacement implantation on dynamic balancing ability during the first six months of the postoperative period -PhD Science Days 2013.
  Effect of the method of hip joint replacement implantation on dynamic balancing ability during the first six months of the postoperative period -Biomechanics conference 2013.
• 2014
  New treatment options in paediatric orthopaedics -accredited lecture series Quintess Knowledge Centre Budapest

Courses

• 2001 Hungarian Arthroscopic Society basic course -Budapest
• 2003 Adult orthopaedics basic course -Szeged
• 2004 Adult orthopaedics basic course -Pécs
• 2004 Pediatric orthopaedics basic course -Debrecen
• 2005 Salzburg Weill Cornell Seminar “Bone and Joint Surgery” - Salzburg, Austria, 1 week
• 2006 Orthopaedic surgical technique course -Budapest
• 2006 AO base course - Szeged
• 2006 Orthopaedic Movement Analysis Course -Budapest
• 2008 “Dega's osteotomy of the iliac bone” pre-Meeting Course of 27th EPOS congress -Warsó, Poland
• 2009 “The non idiopathic adolescent scoliosis: congenital, neuromuscular, neurofibromatosis and early onset” pre-Meeting Course of 28thEPOS congress -Lisbon, Portugal
• 2010 „Legg-Calvé-Perthes Disease -One Century after” pre-Meeting Course of 27th EPOS congress - Zagreb, Croatia

Competitions, awards

• 2002 Young Orthopaedic Doctors Forum -Kecskemét- best performer of the section
• 2003 Forum of Young Orthopaedic Doctors -Székesfehérvár- best performer of the section
• 2004 SICOT Congress -Havana (Cuba)- „Best poster price”
• 2004 Nándor Zinner competition: Second place
• 2005 SOTE Friends of SOTE: Dr. Dezső Balázs and Julianna Walter application: shared first place
• 2005 7th EFORT Congress -Lisbon (Portugal) - „Best poster price”
• 2005 Nándor Zinner competition: 1st place
• 2007 Friends of SOTE: Dr. Dezső Balázs and Julianna Walter application: second place
• 2010 Rector's Commendation -for voluntary blood donation

Publications

• Gergely Holnapy, Illyés Árpád, Kiss Rita M: Impact of the method of exposure in total hip arthroplasty on the variability of gait in the first 6 months of the postoperative period JOURNAL OF ELECTROMYOGRAPHY AND KINESIOLOGY 23:(4) pp. 966-976. (2013) IF: 1.644
• Gergely Holnapy, Kiss Rita M: Impact of the method of exposure in total hip arthroplasty on balancing ability in response to sudden unidirectional perturbation in the first six months of the postoperative period JOURNAL OF ELECTROMYOGRAPHY AND KINESIOLOGY 23: pp. 727-733. (2013) IF: 1.644
• Gergely Holnapy, Rita M. Kiss: The effect of hip joint prosthesis implantation exploration on dynamic balancing ability in the first six months of the postoperative period BIOMECHANICA HUNGARICA 5:(1) pp. 11-24. (2012)
• Gergely Holnapy, Kiss Rita M: 12.1. The effect of the hip joint prosthesis implantation exploration method on dynamic balancing ability in the first six months of the postoperative period
• In: Kiss R M (ed.) Biomechanical modelling: a monograph. 242 p. Budapest: Terc Kiadó, 2012. pp. 205-216. (ISBN:978 963 9968 40 0)
• Illyés Á, Holnapy G, Szendrői, Kiss R M: Effect of hip joint endoprosthesis implantation on lower limb proprioception HUNGARIAN TRAUMATOLOGY ORTHOPEDICS SURGICAL PLASTICS PLASTICS 50:(3) pp. 216-230. (2007)
• Illyes A, Holnapy G, Szendroi M, Kiss R M: Importance of proprioception after total hip replacement
• In: Ruggiero C (ed.) Proceedings of the Fourth IASTED International Conference on Biomedical Engineering. 412p. Conference date and place: Innsbruck, Austria, 15.02.2006-2006.02.17. (2006) Calgary: IASTED ACTA Press, 2006. pp. 379-383. (ISBN: 0889865787 (ISBN 9780889865785 )
• Holnapy G, K Szalay, Szendrői M: Tribological aspects of hip arthroplastyMAGYAR TRAUMATOLOGY ORTHOPEDICS PHYSICAL PLASTICS 55:(3) pp. 185-194. (2012)
• Holnapy G, Terebessy T, Domos Gy, Horváth N, Kiss S, Szőke Gy: The relationship between the degree of femoral head slippage and the development of hip joint arthrosis in patients with epiphyseolysis.
• Holnapy G, Kiss S, Terebessy T, Szőke Gy: Correction of forearm deformity caused by exostosis cartilaginea multiplex by ulna lengthening HUNGARIAN TRAUMATOLOGY ORTHOPEDICS ENTOPEDICS PLASTIC SURGERY 54:(1) pp. 45-51. (2011)
• Tamás Terebessy, Sándor Kiss, Gergely Holnapy, Gyula Domos, György Szőke: Evaluation of the efficacy of calcaneal stop arthrorisis in the treatment of flexible foot in children HUNGARIAN TRAUMATOLOGY ORTHOPEDICS MEDICAL PLASTICS PLASTICS 52:(3) pp. 245-251. (2009)
• Terebessy T, Kiss S, Holnapy G, Szoke G: Evaluation of calcaneus stop method in the treatment of flexible flatfoot in children JOURNAL OF CHILDREN'S ORTHOPAEDICS 3:(Suppl. 1) p. S75. (2009)
• Károly Pap, Sándor Kiss, Tamás Shisha, Gyula Domos, Sándor Berki, Gergely Holnapy, György Szőke: Histopathological lesions in muscle tissue after limb lengthening HUNGARIAN TRAUMATOLOGY ORTHOPEDICS MACHINE OPERATING PLASTICS PLASTIC SURGERY 52:(3) pp. 217-222. (2009)
• Szőke G, Kiss S, Terebessy T, Holnapy G: Pediatric Orthopedics
• In Szendrői M, Sim FH (eds.): Color Atlas of Clinical Orthopedics. 480 p. Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2009. pp. 241-284. (ISBN:978-3-540-85560-6)
• Lakatos J, Köllő K, Skaliczki G, Holnapy G: Neck, Chest, Spine and Pelvis
• In Szendrői M, Sim FH (eds.): Color Atlas of Clinical Orthopedics. 480 p. Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2009. pp. 285-314. (ISBN:978-3-540-85560-6)
• Kiss S, Vízkelety T, Köllő K, Terebessy T, Holnapy G, Szőke G: Common Bone Dysplasias and Malformations
• In Szendrői M, Sim FH (eds.): Color Atlas of Clinical Orthopedics. 480 p. Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2009. pp. 1-51. (ISBN:978-3-540-85560-6)
• Mády F, Holnapy G, Szendrői M.: Ankle and foot.
• n: Szendrői M, Sim FH (eds.): Color Atlas of Clinical Orthopedics. 480 p. Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2009 (ISBN:978-3-540-85560-6)
• Holnapy G, Szendrői M: Connective Tissue Disorders
• In Szendrői M, Sim FH (eds.): Color Atlas of Clinical Orthopedics. 480 p. Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2009. pp. 231-241. (ISBN:978-3-540-85560-6)
• Gergely Holnapy, Sándor Kiss, Tamás Terebessy, Károly Pap, Tamás Shisha, György Szőke: Successful treatment of osteomyelitis with significant bone loss and shortening of the limb as a complication of varicella infection HUNGARIAN TRAUMATOLOGY ORTHOPEDICS SURGERY PLASTIC SURGERY 52:(3) pp. 269-275. (2009)
• Gergely Holnapy, Ákos Zahár, Attila Tóth, József Lakatos: At least 10-year follow-up of hip replacements implanted under the age of 50 HUNGARIAN TRAUMATOLOGY ORTHOPEDICS ORTHODONTICS SURGICAL PLASTICS PLASTICS 50:(1) pp. 15-23. (2007)
• Gergely Holnapy, Árpád Illyés, István Böröcz: Lessons learned from a knee prosthesis implantation HUNGARIAN TRAUMATOLOGY ORTHOPEDICS ORTHOPEDICS PLASTICS PLASTICS 48:(3) pp. 269-277. (2005)
• Gergely Holnapy: EFORT Travelling Fellowship HUNGARIAN TRAUMATOLOGY ORTHOPEDICS ORTHOPEDICS PLASTICS 47:(2) pp. 167-168. (2004)