{"id":18015,"date":"2019-08-16T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T07:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/?p=18015"},"modified":"2019-08-16T09:34:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T07:34:32","slug":"dr-laszlo-kobori-we-can-build-on-the-work-of-our-predecessors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/2019\/08\/dr-laszlo-kobori-we-can-build-on-the-work-of-our-predecessors\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. L\u00e1szl\u00f3 K\u00f3bori: We can build on the work of our predecessors"},"content":{"rendered":"
University professor Dr. L\u00e1szl\u00f3 K\u00f3bori, who has taken over as director of the Department of Transplantation and Surgery as of July 1, has been working at the department for 25 years. His plans include further developing the liver transplantation program for children and interventional surgical-radiological hybrid operations. His main objective is educating a new generation of doctors, by expanding the teaching of organ and oncological surgery, including the potential international expansion of surgical resident training, which is also closely linked to developing scientific work.<\/div>\n

Dr. L\u00e1szl\u00f3 K\u00f3bori said that within the 250-year-old Semmelweis University, the Department of Transplantation and Surgery is 25 years old, and he has been working there since the beginning. \u201cDuring this time, a team has developed at the department from our former leaders and professors that operates a transplantation and surgery program that is of high-quality even on a European level, and our mission is to continue on this path,\u201d the director declared.<\/p>\n

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He considers training a new generation of doctors to be one of his most important tasks, in which he plans to follow the Dutch model that he became familiar with when he lived there in 1995-1997. This also fits well into the current ongoing curriculum reform at the university. The early introduction of young doctors to practice has been a tradition at the department, as the standard operation types should be passed on them as soon as possible, said Dr. L\u00e1szl\u00f3 K\u00f3bori. He added that the basics should be learned in practice in this line of work already in their 30s and the goal is to train operating residents.<\/p>\n

Preparations are also underway to join the US\u2019s Trialect program, under which they would be able to bring residents from renowned universities (Harvard, Yale, UCLA, Cambridge, Heidelberg) to the department. The department has been an accredited education center of the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS) since 2011, one of the first four in Europe, and plans include continuing this occupation-specific training.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The director plans to increase the number of statements put out by the department and that young people be more active in academic work. He believes transplantation is a \u201cfortunate\u201d area due to its multidisciplinary nature. They are working together with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences\u2019 Metabolic Drug Interactions Research Group, led by Dr. Katalin Monostory on building a methodology for the personalized drug treatment of liver transplant patients, which they were first in the world to put into clinical practice. The other main area of research is surgical anatomy, concentrating mainly on the anatomical variations of liver surgery, which forms the basis of living donations and the split program. In the course of more than 10 years of research around 600 so-called corrosive preparations have been developed, which have been used in education as well.<\/p>\n

Dr. L\u00e1szl\u00f3 K\u00f3bori emphasized that joining Eurotransplant in 2013 was a milestone for the department and the transplantation program in Hungary. The accession was prepared by the department\u2019s director at the time, Dr. R\u00f3bert Langer, as well as deputy state secretary Dr. Ildik\u00f3 Horv\u00e1th and Dr. Ferenc Perner, while K\u00f3bori himself assisted the work as the president of the Hungarian Transplant Society. Following the accession, the number of organ donations jumped, as did kidney live donation activity (to around 30 per year), emergency transplantations can be provided in time and patients with special needs are operated on as soon as possible. The department performs 120-150 kidney, 70-80 liver and 4-5 combined pancreas-kidney transplantations a year. Dr. K\u00f3bori plans to keep up this level of transplant numbers as well as expanding the profile in some areas (cross donations, ABO incompatibility transplants, machine perfusion, etc.), while further developing combined transplants (heart-liver, lung-liver and kidney) is also on the agenda.<\/p>\n

One of the most important goals is further developing child liver transplants, for which the director plans to use the expertise and contacts he gained in Hamburg. \u201cWe are talking about children that weigh less than 10 kilograms, a \u2018red line\u2019 in liver transplants where everything has to be done a little differently than normal, including the work of the hepatologist, the radiologist, doctors and intensive care nurses as well as surgery techniques,\u201d said Dr. L\u00e1szl\u00f3 K\u00f3bori. The planned collaboration project would involve the Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) university center and the 1st Department of Pediatrics. He noted that within child liver transplants he plans to introduce live donor and \u201csplit technique\u201d transplants; the latter means that by splitting the donated organ in two, a single organ can be used for liver transplantation into one adult and one child. \u201cWith this we can multiply our transplantation possibilities as well as attract organs from Eurotransplant, as there are only few split centers in Europe,\u201d said Dr. K\u00f3bori about the advantages of this approach. He also noted the need to strengthen the histology background, which helps in determining the suitability of donor organs, which would also increase the number of transplantations. The further development of interventional radiology hybrid operations, he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe department\u2019s performance and reputation has always trended upward over the past 25 years, this is something we can rely on and build on the work of our predecessors: Dr. Ferenc Perner, Dr. Jen\u0151 J\u00e1ray, Dr. R\u00f3bert Langer, Dr. Zolt\u00e1n M\u00e1th\u00e9,\u201d Dr. L\u00e1szl\u00f3 K\u00f3bori emphasized, noting that he is taking over a department with a good name and a good team, which is a leading regional institution within the 250-year-old Semmelweis University.<\/p>\n

Eszter Keresztes
\nTranslation: Tam\u00e1s Deme
\nPhoto: Attila Kov\u00e1cs \u2013 Semmelweis University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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