Peter Tenke, MD, PhD

Tenke Péter
Hungarian urologist, professor emeritus
Jahn Ferenc Hospital

He completed his medical studies at the Semmelweis University with 'Summa cum laude'
certification, in 1989 he became a board certified Urologist.
He obtained his PhD degree in 2005 on the topic of "Foreign body related urinary tract infections",
since 2009 he has been a professor emeritus and since 2017 he has been a doctor of the Hungarian
Academy of Sciences.
Since 2005, he has been Head of the Department of Urology at the Jahn Ferenc Hospital in Budapest,
and in 2023 he became head the Department of Urology at the National Institute of Oncology as
well.
He has played a key role in the development of minimally invasive surgery and robotic surgery in
Hungary. He is the first and to date the only Hungarian robotic surgeon with proctor license and the
surgeon who has performed the most robotic procedures in Hungary.
He is a member of the board of the Hungarian Urological Society and was its president between 2012
and 2015. Since 2022, he is the president of Hungarian Oncologist Society of Hungarian Oncologists,
Multidisciplinary Robotic Surgery Section, since 2021 president of the Urology Section of the College
of Medical Specialists, and since 2023 member of the Scientific Committee for Clinical Surgery of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences.


Keynote 2023