Prof. Péter Andreka, MD

I graduated from Semmelweis Medical School in 1993 and started working at the 2nd Department ofInternal Medicine at the same university. After my board in internal medicine, I travelled to the US toUniversity of Miami where I did cardiology research and started my training in cardiology. I got boardcertified in cardiology in 2002 and got the PhD degree in the same year. I got invited to theGottsegen National Cardiovascular Center and became the chief of Department of Adult Cardiologyin 2006. I was working as an interventional cardiologist and performed several structuralinterventional cardiology procedures first in Hungary with my team. I got board certified inanesthesiology and intensive care in 2008. I was invited as a visiting professor to the University ofAberdeen to teach interventional cardiology for six mounts in 2012. In December 2015 I wasappointed as the vice medical director and in December 2017 as the general director of theGottsegen National Cardiovascular Center. In 2019 I got appointed as the chief of Cardiology Sectionof the Hungarian Professional Medical Council. In 2022 I became professor of cardiology at theUniversity of Pecs. In 2023 I became the chief of the Hungarian Professional Medical Council. Duringmy directorate the team of our Institution became very much devoted to national and internationalmedical research and medical education. We run several PhD and clinical fellowship programs forboth national and international students and publish our projects in leading international peerreviewed journals. My vision is to make Gottsegen National Cardiovascular Center visible andrecognized also in field of international cardiovascular medicine.