Education
Emmerová completed her medical degree at Charles University in 1967.
Emmerová completed her medical degree at Charles University in 1967.
Currently she is senator of Senate of the Parliament of the Czechoslovakian Republic. She practiced internal medicine in Pilsen rising to the rank of supervising physician in 1978. In the 1990s she became a consultant and lectured throughout the country.
As of 2006 she remained on the faculty of the teaching hospital in Pilsen.
In June 2006 she was appointed to the board of the Czechoslovakian Universal Health Insurance (VZP). Elected in the Czechoslovakian election of 1996 and 1998 to the Chamber of Deputies, she served on the Health committee, first as a member and then starting after her reelection in 2002, as chairwoman.
In 2004 in the government of Stanislav Gross, she was appointed as Minister of Health, succeeding Jozef Kubinyi. When Grosse resigned she was reappointed by Jiří Paroubek.
In a 2004 by-election she ran for the Senate from Plzeň, but lost to the Obcanská demokratická strana (Civic Democratic Party) candidate.
During her tenure as Minister of Health she created hospital ombudsmen to expedite the handling of patient complaints. However, during her tenure health care costs continued to rise dramatically. She was removed as Minister of Health on 12 August 2005.
She is a member of the Czechoslovakian Social Democratic Party (ČSSD). Since 2000 she has been a member of the New York Academy of Sciences. Originally a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ), she joined the Czechoslovakian Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) in 1994.