Department of Infectology and Geographical Medicine

The Department of Infectology and Geographical Medicine, FM CU and University Hospital Bratislava originally emerged as the Department of Infectious Diseases, FM CU, in 1961, it was actually an infectology department under the 1st Department of Internal Medicine on Mickiewiczova Street. From the very beginnings of the department (Miloš Netoušek, Emanuel Filo and Ladislav Dérer, respectively) used to commission their disciplines to further advance the discipline of infectology. A group of such disciplines included later associate professors and professors as for instance Božena Kuklová-Štúrová, Ilja Paulíny-Tóth, Kazimír Kollár, Miloš Nosáľ and Mikuláš Ondrejička. After Professor Dérer had left, the 1st Department Internal Medicine was taken over by Prof. Ondrejička and Fellow Július Hrúzik, MD was appointed the head physician of the infectiology department who defended his habitation thesis in the Internal Medicine - Infectiology. In 1961, he was appointed the first head of the Department of Infectious Diseases, FM CU.

On a basis of the department, the Sub-department of Infectology under the Institute for Further Education of Doctors and Pharmacists was established inf 1967.Later, this unit was renamed to the Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Slovak Medical University in Bratislava. In 1979, the relocated to the newly-built building within the Dérer´s Hospital with Policlinic premises in Kramáre. It also assumed a temporary name of the Department of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases. After Prof. Hrúzik had retired in 1990, Assoc. prof. Ondrej Bálint was appointed the head of the department (professor since 1990). When professor Bálint retired in 2004, (later) Assoc. prof. Igor Stankovič became the head of the department and has remained on the position ever since. Department´s pedagogical activities include theoretical and practical education in the subject of Infectology for both General Medicine and Dentistry programmes in Slovak and English.