Name: Béla Fülesdi MD

Place and date of birth: Debrecen, 15.12.1961.

Place of work

Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, University of Debrecen, Hungary

Brief chronology of education

1988: graduated from Debrecen University Medical School
1992: board certification, neurology
1995: board certification, anesthesiology and intensive care

Chronology of employment

1988-1992: residency, Department of Neurology, University of Debrecen
1992-1995: recidency, anesthesiology and intensive care, University of Debrecen
1996-2003: Head of the Neurointensive Care Unit, University of Debrecen
2003- Professor and chairman, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, University of Debrecen

Work abroad

January-June 1994: Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam
November 1999-February 2000: Allgemeines Krankenhaus, Wien
March 2000: INSERM Institute, Toulouse, France, Department of Neurology
Grace University, Cambridge, UK: 2-times 1-1 month teaching on neurocritical care, 2000, 2001

Spoken languages

English
German

Research acitivities

Number of scientific publications: 257
Overall impact factor: 325,436
Number of citations: 4114
H-index: 34
Highest academic degree: DSci

Main fields of research interest

Neuroanesthesia
Neurointensive care
Neuromuscular monitoring
Cerebral hemodynamics
Home mechanical ventilation
Sepsis and related conditions
Thoracic anesthesia

Honors and awards

1994: European Stroke Conference: Award of the best research poster
1996: European conference on Cerebral Hemodynamics, Munich: Award of the best research poster
1997, 2000: The best clinical publication of the year in the Debrecen University
2007, 2008: Best teacher of the year in English programme at the University Medical School
2017: Visting professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Iuliu Hatieganu University, Cluj, Romania
2019: Tankó Béla award 2020: Member of the Saint Stephan’s Scientific Academy 2020: Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic (civilian)

International cooperations

Mayo Clinic Florida Department of Anesthesiology
Outcomes Research Consortium Lousville, US
Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care,Vienna General Hospital (AKH)
Department of Neuroanesthesia and Neurocritical Care, University of Linz, Klinikum Jauregg
Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Iuliu Hatieganu University, Cluj, Rumania
Department of Vascular Surgery, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Western Australia

Reviewership of journals

Stroke
Am. J Physiology
J. Hypertension
Eur. J. Anaesthesiology
BMC Anesthesiology (section editor)
Anesthesia and Analgesia
Anesthesiology
Journal of Clinical Medicine (Editor)

Memberships

Hungarian Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care
Hungarian Society of Neurology
European Society of Critical Care Medicine: Board member (2012-15)
European Society of Anesthesiology
Edömér Tassonyi Neuromuscular Research Group (Leader and founder)
International Society of Neuromuscular Management (Founder)