dr. Árpád Tótth, MD

Married and the father of three, his wife is a writer. He graduated from Budapest’s Fazekas Mihály Secondary School in 1990 and from Semmelweis University of Medicine in 1996 as a physician.

Alongside research and pathology residency training at the university, he worked for 13 years as a doctor with the National Ambulance Service. From 2001 to 2006, under Hungary’s managed care system (IBR), he worked at the Misszió Health Center in Veresegyház and the Csolnoky Ferenc Hospital and Polyclinic in Veszprém County, first as a patient pathway analyst and then as deputy director of the model program. At the latter hospital, he served as development director from 2006 to 2011, followed by medical and strategic director. From 2008 to 2013, he was director general of the Erzsébet Hospital and Polyclinic in Zirc.

In 2013, at the invitation of a Norwegian organization, he moved to Norway with his family. For nine years, he worked as an analyst and professional adviser at Helse Nord RHF, the Northern Norway Regional Health Authority. From 2022, he spent four years as operational medical director at Helgeland Hospital (Helgelandssykehuset HF).

He earned a healthcare management qualification in 2000 and an MBA in healthcare leadership in Norway in 2024. At the invitation of Dr. Zsolt Hegedűs, Minister of Health, he returned to Hungary on July 1, 2026, to take over as head of the National Hospital Directorate General.