TOP 50 doctors in the Czech Republic according to Forbes 2025

prof. MUDr. Jiří Horáček, PH. D.

Member of the CZECRIN BOARD, a top decision-making body that decides on strategic infrastructure issues, and Head of the Research Centre at the National Institute of Mental Health.

Professor Jiří Horáček graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of Charles University in Pilsen and has been a professor of psychiatry for 15 years. He is interested in the use of brain imaging methods (PET, fMRI and qEEG) not only in the field of schizophrenia, OCD and depression. He has published or co-authored more than 200 scientific articles, holds several psychiatric awards and is actively involved in educating the professional and lay public.

You can find the full CV here on the website NUDZ.cz.

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prof. MUDr. Martina Koziar Vašáková, Ph. D.

Vice-Chair of the field-oriented network (DONet) CZECRIN PNEUMO and Head of the Pneumology Clinic of the 1st Faculty of Medicine of Charles University and Faculty of Medicine of the Czech Republic.

Professor Martina Koziar Vašáková graduated from the 1st Faculty of Medicine of Charles University in Prague, she was the head of the Institute for the Treatment of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases, then of the Pneumology Clinic of the 1st Faculty of Medicine of Charles University and now she is the head of the same clinic. She is interested in immunology and pneumology and, in addition to being a member of a number of national and supranational professional societies, in 2015 she was awarded the Innovation Prize of the Senate of the Czech Republic for the industrial design of a biodegradable tracheal stent. She has also authored or co-authored numerous articles, teaching texts, publications and scientific outputs.

You can find the full CV here on the website Medvik.cz.

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doc. MUDr. Tomáš Kazda, Ph.D.

Member of the CZECRIN BOARD, a top decision-making body that decides on strategic infrastructure issues, and Deputy for Science and Research specialising in neuro-oncology, and also head of the RECAMO Research Group of Tomáš Kazda at the MoD.

He began to study central nervous system tumours as a student at the Faculty of Medicine of Masaryk University and further developed his interest in 2010 as a radiation oncologist under the guidance of Professor Pavel Šlampa, the father of Czech neurooncology and the head of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the MOU.

His interest in the field was further deepened by long-term international fellowships focused on neuro-oncology, which he completed at the prestigious Mayo Clinic in Rochester, USA and at the Radiotherapy Clinic in Columbus, Ohio, USA.

You can find the full CV here on the website MOÚ.

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prof. MUDr. Zuzana Mot’ovská, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator of the field-oriented network (DONet) CZECRIN CARDIO and Deputy Head of Research and Head of the Division of Acute Cardiology at the Cardiology Clinic of the Královské Vinohrady University Hospital and the 3rd Faculty of Medicine of Charles University.

The path to medicine was not easy for her, she only got to study it thanks to a presidential appeal, about which she once wrote to Gustáv Husák. “Since then, I have known that every meaningful goal deserves courage and effort, the conviction that nothing is impossible,” says the woman who now heads the acute cardiology division at the Královské Vinohrady Hospital.

In addition to her medical practice, she excels in science and is the first and so far the only woman to receive the highest scientific award in our country, the Czech Head.

You can find the full CV here on the website Czech head.

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prof. MUDr. Michal Bar, Ph.D.

Prof. Michal Bar, M.D., Ph.D. Head of the Neurological Clinic of the University Hospital Ostrava, member of the Scientific Board of the National Research Ict Network STROCZECH, St. Anne’s University Hospital in Brno – International Clinical Research Center and principal investigator of two major projects.

AI speaks into strokes too. And Professor Bar is there. In addition to his work as the head of the Neurology Clinic at the Ostrava University Hospital, which he has led for nearly twenty years, he is also very active at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ostrava, where he is now working on how to use AI to image strokes. This is a topic that he is also successfully researching in the scientific sphere.

You can find the full CV here on the website FNO(Text and image from Forbes.cz)