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Dr. István Kopcsó PhD
specialist in public health and epidemiology, specialist in military, disaster and law enforcement medicine,
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Professional experience and career history
- 2025. 02.27.- retired Major General (Medical)
- from 2024Sabjanics Medical Center – chief physician, head of strategy
- 2024.03. – 2024.12.31.: Hungarian Defence Forces Medical Centre, Senior Mentor;
- 2021.03.-2023. 02.: Commander of the Hungarian Defence Forces Medical Centre and Surgeon General of the Hungarian Defence Forces;
- 2020.08. – 2021. 02.: Hungarian Defence Forces Command, Medical Division, Head of Division;
- 2016.08.– 2020.07.: Hungarian Defence Forces Medical Centre, Chief Medical Officer;
- 2013.09.-2016.07.: Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, NATO (Mons, Belgium), Chief Medical Officer, Medical Adviser to the Commander;
- 2008. 11.-2013.08:NATO Centre of Excellence for Military Medicine, Director;
- 2007.09.-2008.10.: Hungarian Defence Forces Dr. Radó György Military Medical Centre, Deputy Commander;
- 2004.08.-2007.08.: NATO Headquarters (Brussels, Belgium), Logistics and Resources Division, Medical Section, Head of Section;
- 2003.01.-2004.07.: Ministry of Defence – General Staff Medical Division, Deputy Head of Division;
- 2001.02.-2003.01.: NATO Joint Command South (Verona, Italy), Head of Medical Branch, Medical Adviser to the Commander;
- 2000.01.-2001.01.: Medical Division, General Staff of the Hungarian Defence Forces, senior organising chief physician;
- 1987.03.-1999.12.: senior physician, then head of department and chief physician (Department of Epidemiology and Microbiology), Hungarian Defence Forces Health Protection Institute;
- 1986.03.-1987.02: Unit medical officer (Feldebrő, Ammunition Depot No. 10);
- 1984.091986.02. Borsod County ANTSZ (Public Health Service), Department of Epidemiology, staff physician
- 1984.06.medical degree (Mechnikov State Medical University, St Petersburg)
- 1978:secondary school leaving examination (Kilián György Grammar School, mathematics and physics stream, Miskolc)
Specialist qualifications
- 1987, no:770/1987Public health and epidemiology (Preventive medicine and public health)
- 1995, no:1052/1995Military medicine and disaster medicine(Military, disaster and law enforcement medicine)
Second degree, academic degree, academic title
- Healthcare Manager (2001, SOTE, no:27/2001)
- Ph.D. (2010, Zrínyi Miklós National Defence University, thesis: “Challenges facing the military medical service in the 21st century, with particular regard to supporting NATO’s medical transformation process”)
- Honorary university professor (University of Pécs, Medical School, 2019)
- Major courses and training abroad
- US Army Medical Department Center and School (1997-98, San Antonio, USA):
- Advanced Medical Officers’ Course
NATO School (Oberammergau, Germany)
NATO Staff Officers’ Course
“NATO Peace Support Operations” course
NATO-PfP Joint Medical Planners’ Course
“Multinational Joint Logistics Centre” course
NATO Senior Officers’ Course
Senior Medical Officers’ Course
Bundeswehr Technical School (Aachen, Germany):
– NATO Logistics Course
Languages
Russian – “C” advanced (1984, no:456/1984)
English – “C” advanced (1997, no:875/1343/1997)
English STANAG 6001: 3,3,3,3 (1998, no:7/1998)
English TOEFL: 583 points (1998, no:3685573)
French – “C” basic (ARMA)
Operational experience
1999.04-09.: head of the Hungarian military medical team in NATO’s humanitarian operation “Allied Harbour” in Albania, and deputy to the operation’s Chief Medical Officer;
2000.04.-09.: Chief Epidemiology Officer of the Medical Coordination Centre, NATO KFOR Headquarters (Pristina, Kosovo);
2000.09.-2001.03.: in the same place, Director of the Medical Coordination Centre of KFOR Headquarters, and Deputy Chief Medical Officer of KFOR;
2003.02-03.: “Disciplined Warrior” (Verona, Italy NATO
exercise, Chief Medical Officer;
2003. 04-05: “Cooperative Best Effort” (Yerevan, Armenia) NATO/PfP
exercise, Chief Medical Officer;
Membership of professional bodies
President of the Hungarian Society of Military and Disaster Medicine since 2019, re-elected to serve until 2027. Member of the editorial board of the journal Honvédorvos since 2008, chair of the editorial board from 2016 to 2023, and currently one of its vice-chairs. Chair of the Medical Section of the NATO Operational Logistics Support Partnership (OLSP Med) from 2016 to 2021. Member of the Hungarian Society of Emergency Medicine (a public-benefit association), the Public Body of the Academy, and the professional section for oxyology – emergency medicine, toxicology, military and disaster medicine (2017-2020). Medical adviser to the National Association of Hungarian Reservists and chief strategic adviser to Semmelweis University. Member of a Norwegian-led international research group developing and studying the “Utstein-style” approach to managing medical disasters. Member of NATO’s highest medical decision-making body, the Committee of the Chiefs of Military Medical Services, from 2009 to 2023, and Hungary’s delegate to the International Committee of Military Medicine from 2016 to 2023.
Member of the Hungarian Atlantic Council since 2019. Founder of the medical section of the Hungarian Reservists’ Association, and since 2025 its Medical
Hungarian member of the International Association of Reservists.
Teaching
Lectures in English and Hungarian in undergraduate programmes at Semmelweis University and the University of Pécs, at the Doctoral School of Military Sciences of the National University of Public Service, and on medical courses and further training at the NATO School in Oberammergau.
Scientific work
To date, more than twenty-five articles published or in press in Hungarian and international scientific journals, co-author of a university textbook and book chapters, and numerous lectures in Hungarian and English at scientific conferences.
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