Ass. Prof. Radim Kočvara, MD, PhD

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Chief of the Department of Paediatric Urology, Institute for Postgraduate Medical Education, Prague, Chairman of Accreditation Board of Urology of Ministery of Health of the Czech Republic

Education and Training:
1975 Faculty of General Medecine Charles University, Prague
1980 Ist Degree of Urology training (certified)
1983 IInd Degree of Urology training (certified)
1987 Subspecialty training in Paediatric Urology (certified)
1989 PhD –dissertation (Thesis: Metabolic disorders associated with the stone disease in adult and children)
1993 Scholarship of the Austrian Urological Society in Innsbruck
1994 International Medical Scholar Program ECFMG, Seattle, Philadelphia-USA
1997 Associate Professor (Thesis: Fasciocutaneous flaps in hypospadias repair)
2006 F.E.A.P.U. Certificate
2009 Director of JCPU accredited educational paediatric urology centre in Prague Teaching Hospital

Employment:
since 1975 General University Hospital and 1st Medical School of Charles University, Department of Urology
since 1995 Chief of the Division of Paediatric Urology and Deputy Chief at the Department of Urology, General University Hospital and 1. Medical School of Charles University in Prague
since 1996 Chief of the Department of Paediatric Urology, Institute for Postgraduate Medical Education, Prague
since 2010 Chairman of Accreditation Board of Urology of Ministery of Health of the Czech Republic

Affiliation:
Member of revision committee of the Czech Urological Society and coordinator of the Paediatric section of the Czech Urological Society
Member of the Educational Committee of the European Society for Paediatric Urology (ESPU) and of the European Academy of Paediatric Urology
Member of the working Paediatric Urology Guideline Group of the European Association of Urology (EAU)
Member of the faculty of European School of Urology (ESU)
Membre of Joint Committee of Paediatric Urology UÉMS (JCPU)
Chairman of the ESPU Educational Committee Course, Prague 2005
Chairman of the scientific committee of the Annual Meeting of the Czech Urological Society (1999, 2005)
Chairman of the scientific committee of annual meetings of the paediatric section of the Czech Urological Society (1996–2009)

Main Supervisor of the written part of the EBU examination in 2003, 2004 and 2005; of the ESPU In Service examination in 2005, 2006 and of the JCPU Qualification exam in 2010.

Awards:
1st Prize – Clinical Poster in ESPU Congress Regensburg 2004
1st Prize (best video) in European VideoJournal of Urology in 2001
1st Prize of the Czech Urological Society– Clinical article in 1997, 2003, 2011
Prize of the Minister of Health of the Czech Republic in 1997, 2006
2nd Prize – Oral presentation in ESPU Congress Amsterdam 2009

Bibliography:
Papers in peer reviewed journals on urethral surgery, urolithiasis, varicocele and laparoscopy in paediatric urology.