He is a professor at the Neurology Clinic of the University of Debrecen, a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 2016, and president of the Hungarian Neurological Society.
His clinic performs the highest number of intravenous thrombolysis treatments for stroke in the country.
His main area of interest is the prevention and treatment of cerebral circulatory disorders (stroke).
Between 1981 and 1983, he worked at the Max Planck Institute in Cologne.
In 1986-87, he was invited to Japan, where he mastered ultrasound methods. In 1991, he spent six months in Toulouse, France, studying cerebral circulatory disorders. He was appointed university professor at the age of 40 and led the Neurology Clinic in Debrecen for 25 years. His specialized fields are neurology and cerebral circulatory disorders (stroke). He organized the country’s first neurosonology laboratory (dealing with ultrasound examinations of the central nervous system) and founded the Hungarian Neurosonology Society.
His clinic is an internationally recognized clinical and teaching stroke center and a research site for doctors from Germany, the Netherlands, and Japan.
He is a board member of the European Master’s in Stroke and the World Stroke Academy, a corresponding member of the German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology and Functional Imaging, an honorary member of the Austrian Stroke Society, and a visiting professor at the Israel Association of Neurology, University of Belgrade, Novi Sad, Iuliu Hațieganu University of Cluj, and the University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Târgu Mureș. Between 2009 and 2013, he served as president of the European Society of Neurosonology and Cerebral Hemodynamics.
Thanks to the care model he introduced, Debrecen has performed the highest number of intravenous thrombolysis procedures for acute stroke in Hungary for years, and the stroke mortality in his region is among the lowest in the country.
His clinical, scientific, and teaching work has been recognized with the Markusovszky, Hatvany, Batthyány-Strattmann, Francis Crick, Szentgyörgyi, Tankó, and Genersich awards, as well as the Knight’s Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit and the Széchenyi Prize in 2020. He is an honorary citizen of Sajószentpéter and received the Pro Urbe award from the city of Debrecen. His students have named him Teacher of the Year eight times. He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 2015 and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2016.
His short story collection titled “Please Perform an Autopsy on Me” has been translated into English, German, Romanian, and Serbian. His new book, “Swept Away by the Great Flood,” was published in 2018. He is married and has three children.
He primarily welcomes patients seeking evaluation for risk factors predisposing to vascular diseases or those who have suffered a stroke and want advice on further treatment. He also welcomes patients with headaches.