Peter Torzsa

Semmelweis Egyetem, Department of Family Medicine, Hungary

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Academic Background

PhD or equivalent

Qualification

General Practitioner/Family Doctor

Short Bio

Since graduating, I have been working at the Family Medicine Department of the Faculty of Medicine at Semmelweis University. Currently, I am the Assistant Professor of the Department, Associate Professor and I am responsible for the graduate teaching of the English-language class. In postgraduate teaching, I am the secretary of residency training, the secretary of the General Practitioner’s Gremium, the professional in charge of the compulsory maintenance course and the president of the Occupational Medicine Gremium. I received my successful PhD qualification is 2009, the title of my thesis was: The epidemiology and clinical significance of obstructive sleep apnea and snoring in the family medicine practice. My current research interests include the screening of sleep apnea and depression in family medicine; the study of affective temperaments and vascular dilation in diabetics and sleep apnea patients; examining family doctors’ health conditions and sleep habits, burnout prevention; the study of family doctors’ dedication, attitudes towards gratuity, as well as the promotion of family medicine for medical students. So far, I have been an educator of 21 students as part of the Student Scientific Association, I supervised 41 students’ dissertations both in Hungarian and English, I have tutored 13 family medicine residents. One of my PhD students has already graduated, currently I am supervising 3 other PhD students, all of whom have successfully taken their complex exams. I am the national representative of the European General Practice Research Network (EGPRN. ), Vice-president of the Hungarian Research Organization of Family Practice (CSAKOSZ), head of the General Practice Section of the Hungarian Psychiatric Association and the Hungarian Society of Hypertension, board member of the General Practice Section of the Hungarian Society of Sleep Medicine. The number of my scientific articles published in Hungarian journals: 119, of these 93 were published as first or last author, the number of articles published in international journals: 32. The number of my national congress presentations is 207, I have given 30 presentations at international congresses.