Founded:

1977

President:

Prof. Dr. Béla Lombay, PhD
Mail address: Miskolc, B.A.Z. Megyei Kórház, Röntgenintézet, Gyermekradiológiai Osztály, Szentpéteri kapu 72-76
E-mail: dr.lombaysr1@t-email.hu

Members: (1993)

dr. Éva Borbás e-mail:zelei.rtgint@bazmkorhaz.hu
dr. Zoltán Karádi e-mail:karesz@gyer2.sote.hu
dr. Éva Kis PhD (secretary) e-mail:kiseva2009@gmail.com
dr. Gabriella Mohay e-mail:gabi.mohay@gmail.com
dr. Gábor Rudas PhD e-mail: rudas.gabor@semmelweis-univ.hu
dr. Ildikó Várkonyi Ildikó (treasurer) e-mail: varildiko@yahoo.com


By expecting the suggestion of Professor Zoltán Zsebők, President of Hungarian Society of Radiologists The Pediatric Radiology Section of the Hungarian Society of Radiologists was founded by dr. Erzsébet Sclaffer in 1977. The society is working as an independent organisation by the formal leading of the Hungarian Society of Radiologists.

Aims of the Section

The board has been organizing different kind of trainings, courses, conferences for pediatric radiologists, general radiologist, pediatritians with the same enthusiasm ever since.

Pediatric radiologist subspecialist exam

The year of 2004 was a big change in the life of our organization as after the efforts of decades the ministry of health accepted our request and the pediatric radiology became a subspeciality exam. There are two ways of approaching the subspeciality: pediatrician and radiologist can apply for the exam after completion of the training program. Radiologist need 2 years of further training and pediatricians 2.5 years. Currently, there are more than 20 specialists around and many others are in the training program.

Courses

Symposiums are organized every other year to secure the continous high quality education. At the same time these events provide opportunity for our community for talks, for showing new results and introduce interesting cases. At the meetings we always have internationally well known experts to give lectures.

Our division is always present at the yearly organised ultrasound days in Sopron and at the meetings for the rememberence of Imre Lélek held every second year in Héviz. In Sopron, there is always a special section for the Pediatric Radiology in order to give an update on the novelties.

Twice every year, in spring and in the fall the 1st Department of Pediatrics organizes the meeting called „Cases in Pediatric Radiology” to give an opportunity for the young doctors for presentations. The increase of the number of participants shows the popularity of the event: there were around 40-60 participants at the beginnings and it has been growning continously. Nowadays, this number exceeds 100 in some cases.

Every year we held a two-day-long course, which used to be in Miskolc but lately has moved to Budapest to the 1st Department of Pediatrics, and this course is a prerequisite for the subspeciality exam.

Publications

Pediatric radiologists publish every year more articles in the Journal of Hungarian Radiology. The book „Cases in Pediatric Radiology” edited by Dr Éva Kis was published in 2004 by the Semmelweis Kiadó (authors: Katalin Bitvai, Béla, Lombay, Éva Kis, Ildikó Várkonyi, Tibor Verebély). In 2010, the textbook „The Basics of Pediatric Radiology” was published by the same publisher and editor ( authors: Péter Barsi, Katalin Bártfai, György Balázs, Tamás Györke, Erzsébet Horváth, Éva Kis, Gábor Rudas, Ildikó Várkonyi). In 2013 a textbook "Radiopathology" was published by the Miskolc University for radiographers (edited:Béla Lombay, authors: Zoltán Harkányi, Béla Lombay, János Martos). "Pediatric traumatology" (Béla Lombay, Medicina Könyvkiadó, 1987) also helps the canditates to prepare for the subspeciality exam.

International presence of the subdivision

The board of the subdivision is constinous participant of the meetings of the European Society of the Pediatric Radiology (ESPR) held in different location every year. The board members give presentations, chairs at these meetings.

Bela Lombay was the president of ESPR and organized in Budapest the annual meeting of the Society of European Pediatric Radiology in 1992. Béla Lombay is the Honorary Member of ESPR (1997).

In 2002 Béla Lombay organized the international muscoloskeletal course (ECPR) of the ESPR in Budapest.

In 2013 50th Annual Meeting of the ESPR took place in Budapest again, organized by Éva Kis with a great success with nearly 600 participants.

Our board members not only participate at the annual meetings of the Eurpopean Radiology Society held in Vienna but are also members of the organisation commetee, act as chear and give presentations.

Gefferth’s prize

The pediatric radiology section founded this prize for the most prominent pediatric radiologist who is announced every other year on the occasion of the international meeting of the section. To date, the following physicians have been awarded for their service to Hungarian Pediatric Radiology.
Dr. György Köteles -1995, Dr. Erzsébet Schlaffer -1997, Dr. Béla Lombay -1999,
Dr. Katalin Bitvai -2001, Dr. József Bevíz -2003, Dr. Éva Kis -2005, Dr. Éva Borbás -2007,
Dr. Emma Gersei -2009, Prof. Dr. Zoltán Harkányi -2011

Further informations

The subdivision honors all the big forefathers of the Hungarian pediatric radiology: Károly Gefferth, the 1st honorary member of the ESPR, Ákos Görgenyi, János Weisenbach, György Köteles, Sándor Szy, Erzsébet Schlaffer and those leading consultants who did a lot for the national and international recognition of pediatric radiology. Those foreign friends and collegues have to be remembered as well, who helped our little subspeciality to integrate in the international world of pediatric radiology.

The division is open for everyone. Application can be submitted at any time at the secretary. The only condition for the application is the payment of membership to the Hungarian Society of Radiologists, there is no special fee for the membership in the division.

(Edited by Éva Kis and Béla Lombay)