Richard ČEŠKA MD, PhD, FACP, FEFIM
Richard Ceska, Professor of Internal Medicine (Faculty of Medicine, Charles University), Head of the Center of Preventive Cardiology at the University General Hospital in Prague, Vice-director of department of Internal Medicine – Endocrinology and Metabolism. He holds the position of the President of the Czech Society of Internal Medicine, and as a founder of the Czech Society for Atherosclerosis he is a honorary president of this society. Prof. Ceska is a Member of Executive Committee of the International Society of Internal Medicine (ISIM) and a President Elect of ISIM. He established a ScreenPro FH Project in 2014. The ScreenPro FH project is an international project for improvement of the screening, diagnosis and treatment of familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe (CESE). From 2016 to 2021 he was a Secretary of the International Atherosclerosis Society (IAS).
Main scientific interests: Internal medicine, Preventive cardiology, Clinical lipidology and Metabolism. First author of 9 monograph, over 200 scientific publications. H-index 29.
He regularly participates as a speaker at scientific congresses and conferences, in addition he was a president of the EAS Congress 2005, Prague (3 000 participants), president of the European Congress of Internal Medicine (EFIM) 2013, Prague (1 500 participants), president of the Prague European Days of Internal Medicine (PEDIM) 2014, 2016, 2018, Prague and president of the 37th World Congress of Internal Medicine (WCIM) 2024, Prague (3 000 participants).