Pirk Jan

Jan Pirk, MD, DSc., FETCS
Date of birth: 20 April 1948

Education

• 1966 – 1972 Charles University School of Medicine, Prague

Professional practice

• 1972 – 1974 Dept of Surgery, Nymburk District Hospital, houseman
• 1974 – 1990 Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague - surgeon at the Dept of Surgery
• 1983 – 1984 Ochsner medical Foundation, New Orleans, USA (fellowship in cardiac surgery)
• 1990 – 1991 Odense Univ Hospital, Denmark (consultant, Dept of Cardiac Surgery)
• 1991 – present – Head, Dept of Cardiovascular and Transplant Surgery, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine
• 1995 – present – Chief, Cardiac Center, Inst.Clin.Exp.Medicine

Professional experience

• 1975 - board examination I – surgery
• 1981 - board examination II – surgery
• 1987 - board examination – cardiac surgery
• 1997 - board examination – vascular surgery
• 1978 - CSc (rouhgly equivalent to PhD) degree after defending thesis entitled „The effect of flow rate on the fate of venous grafts in the arterial bed“
• 1988 - DSc., thesis entitled „The long-term fate of coronary artery reconstruction and the potencial of modulating it“
• 1997 - Associate Professor of Surgery at the Charles University School of Medicine I in Prague
• 2000 - Professor of surgery 

Membership in professional societies

• Association of Czech Physicians in Prague
• member of Board of Czech Cardiovascular Surgical Society
• Czech Society of Cardiology – member of the Editorial Board of Cor et Vasa
• The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
• International Society of Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons
• European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery – councillor
• The New York Academy of Sciences