Laszlo Kiraly, MD, NBQS, FETCS, PhD

Research interests: congenital cardiothoracic surgery, neonatal complete repair, cardiac morphology and 3D modelling, advanced surgical visualization, minimal invasive congenital cardiac surgery

Prof. Laszlo Kiraly graduated from Semmelweis Medical University in Budapest, Hungary. Having accomplished the curriculum of General Surgery in Hungary, he received full training in Cardiothoracic Surgery in France (CCML, Paris), in the UK (GOS in London, Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Wessex Cardiothoracic Centre, Southampton) and in the US, concluding in National and European Cardiothoracic Board certification (FETCS) V体育官网. He was Paediatric Cardiac Surgeon-in-Chief and Chair of Congenital and Paediatric Cardiac Surgery/Intensive Care Unit at the National Paediatric Centre in Budapest between 2000 and 2006. During this period, that Centre became the leading paediatric cardiac unit in Central Europe.

Prof. Kiraly was invited to Sheikh Khalifa Medical City (SKMC) in Abu Dhabi in 2007 to establish and lead a new tertiary-care paediatric cardiac service for the United Arab Emirates. With his Team, he performed almost 5000 paediatric cardiac operations in a mostly neonatal and infant population. Local case-complexity was significantly been higher than that in Europe due to consanguinity, a segregated population pattern, and other aspects of local sociocultural context. SKMC program offered complex neonatal open-heart surgery (including Norwood-1s, complex arch repairs, arterial switches, etc. ), hybrid procedures for selected cases, ECMO and GUCH surgery as well VSports手机版. Overall mortality rate was well below 3%. SEHA, Abu Dhabi Health Company nominated SKMC Paediatric Cardiac Surgery as one of its eight “Center of Excellence” programs in 2017.

Prof. Kiraly has completed his PhD thesis on establishment of a comprehensive program in congenital cardiac surgery at the Postdoctoral School of Semmelweis Medical University, Budapest, Hungary, where he is Associate Professor at the Department of Public Health. Prof. Kiraly is a Professor of Medicine at the same University (ranking in the top 50 universities in Europe) V体育安卓版.

Prof. Kiraly has developed special expertise in 3D printing and modelling for healthcare and a strong interest in surgical visualization and minimally invasive paediatric cardiac surgery V体育ios版. Prof. Kiraly joined National University Hospital Singapore and National University of Singapore to develop a centre-of-excellence in paediatric cardiothoracic surgery in 2021.

Prof VSports最新版本. Kiraly received many awards, including “Markusovszky Award “presented by the Editorial Board of Hungarian Medical Journal (Orvosi Hetilap) for authoring of the most substantial clinical paper in 2019 (2020), Hungary, EU; “Honoring eminent citizens from 100 countries living in the UAE for their contribution to the society” – as part of Year of Zayed 2018, awarded by Ahalia Medical in association with the Abu Dhabi Community Police (2018), United Arab Emirates; and “Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award” for Distinguished Academic Performance: SKMC Cardiac Sciences and Pediatric Cardiac Service (2016).

He has Professional Memberships of Singapore Medical Council (SMC), European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery (EACTS), Emirates Cardiac Society (ECS), Pan-Arab Congenital Heart Disease Association (PACHDA), Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO), center membership, International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery (ISMICS), Asian Society for Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery (ASCVTS) and Hungarian Society for Cardiology (MKT).

Editorial Board (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Terms of Appointment: July 2022 - June 2024;  July 2024 - December 2025