Dr. Czebe Krisztina PhD

Current positions

• Since 2023: Tagore Medical Center, Balatonfüred, pulmonology clinic
• Since 2023: Consultant, Department of Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Tapolca Hospital
• Since September 2021: private adult pulmonology practice in Tapolca
• 17/05/2021 to 30/12/2022: locum general practitioner, GP practice no. VIII, Ajka
• 17/07/2017 to 01/03/2021: acting head of department, Department of Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Deák Jenő Hospital, Tapolca
• 2015 to 2017: consultant to the lung transplant team, Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Institute of Oncology
• 01/11/2008 to 31/03/2017: head of department, Department I, Pest County Institute of Pulmonology, Törökbálint
• 01/12/2008 to 2015: consultant to the lung transplant team at the Department of Pulmonology, Semmelweis University, Budapest; assistant professor
• 16/09/2002 to 31/10/2008: Korányi National Institute of Tuberculosis and Pulmonology, Budapest, ward physician
• 01/10/1998 to 15/09/2002: Pest County Institute of Pulmonology, Department II, Törökbálint, ward physician

Education

• 2023: Board certification in medical rehabilitation (pulmonology). Grade: excellent.
• 2009: PhD awarded summa cum laude, Doctoral School of Clinical Medicine, Semmelweis University, in pulmonology. Thesis title: Assessment of lung transplant recipients using invasive and non-invasive examination methods.
• 2004: Board certification in pulmonology, grade: excellent.
• 1998: Medical degree, Faculty of General Medicine, University Medical School of Debrecen.
• 1990: Secondary school leaving examination, Péter András Grammar School, Szeghalom

Awards and honours

• 1996: one-month summer cardiology placement in Mainz (with a scholarship from the Hungarian Medical Students’ Association)
• 2001: three-month clinical placement in a pulmonology department and sleep laboratory in Löwenstein (based on the partnership between the Törökbálint and Löwenstein hospitals)
• 1 October 2002 to 1 May 2004: 18 months of clinical and scientific collaboration on lung transplantation, with scholarships from the Hungarian Respiratory Society and the Austria-Hungary Action Foundation
• Vienna, AKH, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery.
• Partner: Prof. Dr. W. Klepetko (AKH Vienna)
• The aim of the scholarship was to learn the criteria for selecting patients for lung transplantation, their pre-operative assessment and preparation, and early and late post-operative care (performing bronchoscopies and routine check-ups, and managing complications), in order to acquire the pulmonology expertise needed to introduce lung transplantation in Hungary.

Other memberships and positions

• Since 1998: member of the Hungarian Respiratory Society (MTT); member of its board from 2009 to 2022
• Since 2003: European Respiratory Society (ERS)
• 2004-2017member and later chair of the Hungarian Lung Transplant Waiting List Committee