E-mail: farkas.gyula@med.u-szeged.hu

University studies

• University of Szeged – Faculty of Medicine,
  M.D. “summa cum laude” 1967

Qualifications

• General surgery,
  University of Szeged – Faculty of Medicine 1971
• gastroenterology

Posts

• 1996 – Professor
• 1995 – Ph.D.
• 1987 – Associate professor
• 1982 – Authorising Head of Unit
• 1980 – Senior lecturer
• 1972 – Graduate teaching assistant
• 1969 – Clinician

Specialized areas

• general surgery
• gastroenterologic surgery
• pancreas surgery

Scientific works: MTMT (Hungarian Scientific Bibliography)

Awards

• University of Szeged Faculty of Medicine Dean’s Laudation and Prize for the teaching in foreign language
• Medicina Award for Excellence (Surgery textbook co-author), 2003
• The Best Lecture, 6th Congress of Asian Society of Hepato BiliaryPancreatic Surgery , 2001
• Széchenyi Professor Grant, 2000
• The Best Lecture, Annual Meeting of CIRSE Prague, 1999
• Knoll Prize, 1998
• The Best Lecture, IHPBA Congress Athens, 1995
• Petri Gábor Medical Science Prize I., 1992
• Hungarian Society of Gastroenterology Award, 1980
• Markusovszky Award,1979

Researches

• pancreatitis and its complications (experimental and clinical trials)
• pancreas surgery
• immunological aspects of sepsis
• clinical and experimental Langerhans islets transplantation
• immunomodulation of Langerhans islets

Society membership

• Hungarian Surgical Society (board member)
• Hungarian Society of Gastroenterology (board member)
• Board member of Hungarian Surgical Society South Hungary Section
• Hungarian Diabetes Association
• Hungarian Society for Immunology
• Hungarian Transplantation Society
• World Association of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery
• International Gastro-Surgical Club
• European Pancreatic Club
• European Society of Organ Transplantation
• Cell Transplantation (founding member)
• International Pancreas and Islet Transplant Association (founding member)
• European Society of Chemotherapy
• Surgical Infection Society (Europe)
• Internacional Society of Surgery
• International Society of Interferon and Cytokine Research
• American Diabetes Association
• American Association of Pancreatology