Thomas John Pentelényi

Background

Pentelényi, Thomas John was born on February 25, 1939 in Budapest, Hungary. Son of László and Anna Maria (Bohuniczky) Pentelényi.

Education

Doctor of Medicine, Semmelweiss Medical School, Budapest, 1963. Specialist of surgery, Semmelweiss Medical School, Budapest, 1967. Specialist of neurosurgery, Haynal Imre University, Budapest, 1974.

Doctor of Philosophy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1978.

Career

Resident of surgery Szovetség Hospital, Budapest, 1964-1966, Bajcsy Hospital, Budapest, 1966-1968. Resident of neurosurgery National Institute of Traumatology, 1968-1973, scientific co-worker, 1974-1986, head of neurosurgery, 1986-1996. Professor, chairman of neurosurgery National Institute of Traumatology, Haynal Imre University, 1987-1996.

Head, chairman department neurosurgery National Institute of Traumatology, since 1986. Professor of neurotraumatology Semmelweis University, since 1986. President International Conference on Lumbar Fusion and Stabilization/ICLFS Movement, Budapest, since 1995.

International advisory board Paraplegia and Spinal Cord, since 1992, editorial board Clinical Neuroscience, since 1992. Visiting professor University Chicago Medical School, 1990, University Tennessee, 1989, Temple University, Philadelphia, 1990, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, 1990, University California, Davis, 1990, University California, Sacramento, 1990, University Xaveriana, Bogota, Columbia, 1990. Coordinator Control-European International Brain Injury Data-Base, since 1997.

Senior consultant board Memphis Neuroscis. Center, 1989-1996; head Hungarian-Japanese Intergovtl. Neurotrauma Science Research Project.

Achievements

• Thomas John Pentelényi has been listed as a noteworthy neurosurgeon by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Hungarian coordinator Central European International Brain Injury Data Base. Member World Health Organization (steering committee), World Federation Neurosurg. Societies (neurotraumatology committee, chairman subcommittee education), International Medical Society of Paraplegia, Scientific Program Committee (council member), European Federation Neurological Society (scientist panel since 1994), Euroacad.

Multidisciplinary Neurotramatology (executive committee), Hungarian Spine Society (president 1993-1995), University Padova (honorary), Purkinje Medical University (honorary), New York Academy of Sciences (diploma), Indian Neurology Society (honorary), International Biographical Center, Cambridge England (diploma achievement medicine and healthcare, 2005, deputy director general, 2006), American Biographical Institute, North Carolina.

Interests

• Avocations: music, philosophy, fine arts, history of family, ethical problems.

Connections

Married Mary P. Pálfalvy, December 19, 1947. Children: Marianne, Kinga.

Father:

László Pentelényi

Mother:

Anna Maria (Bohuniczky) Pentelényi

Spouse:

Mary P. Pálfalvy

child:

Kinga Pentelényi

child:

Marianne Pentelényi