Dr. Balázs Járay

I completed my university studies at the Faculty of General Medicine of Semmelweis University of Medicine, and received my general medical degree with cum laude in 1987.

After graduation, I was employed at the pathology department of the National Institute of Rheumatology and Physiotherapy, where, under the supervision of Prof. Dezső Tanka, I mainly dealt with the pathology of autoimmune diseases and the study of bone diseases. In addition to the above, I also performed gynecological cytological screening tests.

Before my specialist exam, I started working with aspiration cytology, mainly examining thyroid, breast and bone lesions.

In 1991, I passed the pathology examination with excellent results, and in 2001, I passed the cytopathology examination with excellent results.

I have been working at the II. Institute of Pathology of the Semmelweis University of Medicine since October 1992, I was appointed assistant professor in 1997, and since 2010 I have been working as a clinical chief physician and head of the cytology unit.

In addition to education and routine diagnostic work, my colleagues and I evaluate the institute's more than four thousand aspiration cytology samples per year.

At the end of 1993, I organized the aspiration cytology outpatient clinic at the First Surgical Clinic, where we perform the sampling ourselves under ultrasound guidance. This clinic was supplemented by two more at the Radiology Clinic and the First Internal Medicine Clinic.

In 2000, I was elected secretary of the Cytodiagnostics Section of the Hungarian Society of Pathologists, and in 2009 my mandate was extended for another 4 years.

In 2004, I was elected to the Pathologist Professional College and to the board of the Hungarian Society of Pathologists.

I am a permanent expert of the National Medical Officer's Office in the breast cancer screening program.

I participated in domestic congresses with posters and presentations, as well as in further training courses. In April 2001, we organized the first Hungarian cytology congress, and I am the secretary of the scientific committee of the subsequent annual congresses.

I have also published numerous papers in Hungarian and foreign journals, and my impact factor is 26.

PROFESSIONAL EXPRIENCES:

• In January 1992, I spent a month at the cytodiagnostics department of the National Institute of Oncology with Professor Miklós Bodó, and then in September of the same year, I studied cytology for three weeks with Dr. László Vass, chief physician, at the cytology and pathology department of the Flór Ferenc Hospital.
• In 1990 I participated in the 3rd International Osteoporosis Symposium in Copenhagen, in 1993 in the international gynecological cytology training course in Balatonaliga, and in the 21st European Cytology Congress in Vienna.
• In 1994, I participated in the XXII European Cytology Congress in Amsterdam, and then in October of that year I spent a month in Malmö at the cytology department of the Lund University Teaching Hospital with Professor Karin Lindholm.
• In May 1995, I attended a further training course in histopathology in Vienna, organized by the American Mayo Clinic. I gave presentations at the XXI. IAP Congress in Budapest in 1996, at the 24th European Congress of Cytology in Ljubljana in 1997, at the XIII. International Congress of Cytology in Tokyo in 1998, and at the 25th European Congress of Cytology in Oxford in 1998.
• I was the scientific secretary of the 26th European Congress of Cytology in Budapest in 1999, and I gave the invited opening lecture.
• In March 2000 I spent 3 weeks with Prof. Euphemia McGoogen in Edinburgh.
• In September 2000, I was an invited speaker at the 3rd Congress of Hungarian-Italian Pancreatologists in Capri.
• I was a session chair and invited speaker at the 29th European Congress of Cytology in 2003.
• I participated with a poster at the XV. International Congress of Cytology in Santiago de Chile in 2004.
• In 2009 I participated in the 35th European Congress of Cytology in Lisbon.
• In 2010, I was a participant in the 17th International Congress of Cytology in Edinburgh.