{"id":19200,"date":"2019-10-28T10:19:45","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T09:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/?p=19200"},"modified":"2019-10-28T10:19:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T09:19:45","slug":"relief-sculpture-unveiled-and-memorial-meeting-held-in-honor-of-dr-zoltan-szabo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/2019\/10\/relief-sculpture-unveiled-and-memorial-meeting-held-in-honor-of-dr-zoltan-szabo\/","title":{"rendered":"Relief sculpture unveiled and memorial meeting held in honor of Dr. Zolt\u00e1n Szab\u00f3"},"content":{"rendered":"
A memorial conference was held in honor of Dr. Zolt\u00e1n Szab\u00f3 at the V\u00e1rosmajor Heart and Vascular Center, celebrating what would have been the noted heart surgeon\u2019s 90th birthday. In remembrance of his achievements, the former director of the heart center, who performed the first successful heart transplant in Hungary, was honored with a relief sculpture.<\/div>\n

Dr. Zolt\u00e1n Szab\u00f3 was an iconic figure whose personality defined the work of the entire heart clinic, said rector Dr. B\u00e9la Merkely, the current head of the V\u00e1rosmajor Heart and Vascular Center, at the unveiling of the relief sculpture at the clinic\u2019s cardiac surgery unit. He noted that professor Szab\u00f3 was a real \u201cbuilder\u201d who turned the institution into a world-class heart clinic. The relief was placed at the cardiac surgery department because Dr. Szab\u00f3, who died in 2015, started his work there every day, visiting his patients early in the morning, the rector recalled. The sculpture was unveiled in the presence of Dr. Szab\u00f3\u2019s widow and grandchild.<\/p>\n

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In his opening presentation at the memorial meeting held in honor of Dr. Szab\u00f3, rector Dr. B\u00e9la Merkely briefly summarized the career of the professor, who also served as dean and vice-rector, but the V\u00e1rosmajor clinic was closest to his heart. He talked about the history of the heart center, including the investments started by Dr. Szab\u00f3, thanks to which the center became the flagship unit of Semmelweis University. Among his professional accomplishments, he noted that Dr. Szab\u00f3 performed the first motor-assisted heart surgeries, created and implanted the first pacemaker in Hungary and the first two heart transplants in the country took place near the end of his career, in 1992. \u201cThose patients are still alive today, one of them with the same heart transplanted by the professor,\u201d noted Dr. Merkely, adding that today around 60 heart transplants are performed each year at the clinic. He also pointed out that the top-of-the-line hybrid operating room at the center is named after Dr. Szab\u00f3. The rector also talked about ongoing investments at the clinic, including the expansion of the research lab, energy saving developments, the building of a new wing, as well as new doctor\u2019s rooms and labs being built and the upgrading of the operating theaters.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

The former director of the V\u00e1rosmajor Heart and Vascular Center, who started the Hungarian heart transplant program, would be 90 today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101535,"featured_media":19192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-semmelweis-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101535"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19200"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19204,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19200\/revisions\/19204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}