Rastislav Maďar, a Doctor With His Heart in the Right Place

STYL ROZHOVOR Rastislav Maďar graduated from Jessenius Faculty of Medicine UK in Martin, earned his Ph.D. at the Faculty of Medicine of Comenius University in Bratislava in 2001, and he completed his residency, becoming a docent (associate professor) in 2007. Since 1997, Doc. MUDr. Rastislav Maďar, Ph.D., MBA, FRCPS. has specialized in epidemiology, prevention, and control of infectious diseases. Since 2008, he has been the Medical Director at the Vaccination and Travel Medicine Centre (Centrum očkování a cestovní medicíny) at the outpatients› clinic in Ostrava-Hrabůvka. From 2009, he has worked as the Medical Director and scientific guarantor of the greatest network of Vaccination and Travel Medicine Centres in the Czech Republic. In 2015, he became a Member of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (with the post-nominal title Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons). Since 2017, he has led the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Medical Faculty of the University of Ostrava (Ústav epidemiologie a ochrany veřejného zdraví Lékařské fakulty OU). In 2020, he was appointed the Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University of Ostrava. 74 ǀ POSITIV 1/2021