Professor František Pór, MD--an outstanding internist in the former Czechoslovakia

Professor František Pór, MD, (1899-1980) graduated at the German Medical Faculty of Charles University (GMF-CHU) in Prague in 1926. In January 26, 1945 he was captured, together with his wife, by the Gestapo and they were deported to the concentration camp to Sered' and later to Terezín (Czechoslovakia) from where they were liberated by the Soviet Army on May 8, 1945. He was a founder and the head of the Internal Clinic of the new Medical Faculty in Košice, from October 1, 1948 until 1971. Professor Pór, MD created a school of internal medicine specialists in Eastern Slovakia and many of his co-workers achieved considerable success in internal medicine in Slovakia. He was the founder of Eastern Slovakian Medical Meetings in Nový Smokovec, in the High Tatras, in 1961, the 50th Meeting was held in 2011. Since 1994 the Medical Society in Košice has organized an annual Meeting in his memory.