Personal data
- Name: Dr. Viktor Zsolt Kovari, MD
- Date of birth: 1979.10.09.
Work Experience
- General neurosurgery. Neurotrauma surgery. Spinal surgery.
- Specializes in adult spinal surgery involving trauma, tumor, degenerative, infective and
partially in deformity cases.
Field of Interest
- Secondary spinal deformity correction surgery.
- Minimally invasive spine surgical techniques.
Education
University
- 1998-2004 Semmelweis University Medical School, Budapest, Hungary, M.D. degree – ‘SUMMA
CUM LAUDE - 1999 First place of Annual Anatomy Competition (in 1st year)
- 2000 First place of Annual Anatomy Competition (in 2nd year)
- 2002 Second place, Annual Orthopedic Competition
Traning during university:
- 2002 Orthopädische Universitätsklinik, Heidelberg, Germany
- 2003 State University of New York at Buffalo, NY State, USA, School of Medicine and Biomedical
Sciences: Vascular surgery, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology - 2004 University of Oslo, Faculty of Medicine, Norway: Pediatrics and Obstetrics & Ginecology
Postgraduate Education:
- 2011 Specialist State Exam in Neurosurgery
- 2013 European Spine Course Diploma, Lucerne, Switzerland
- 2017 Observership in New York, USA, under K. Daniel Riew
Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Columbia University Medical Center’s College of Physicians and Surgeons in NYC. He is also the Co-Chief, Spine Division, Director of Cervical Spine Surgery and Co-Director of the Columbia Spine Fellowship, at the Columbia University Medical Center /Dept of Orthopaedic Surgery
Employment
- 2004-2006 Resident in Neurosurgery, National Institute of Neurosurgery, Budapest Hungary
- 2006-2011 Resident in Neurosurgery, Hungarian Defence Forces Medical Centre, Budapest,
Hungary - 2011- 2019 Board certified Neurosurgeon and later as Assistant professor, Hungarian Defence Forces Medical Centre,
Budapest, Hungary - 2014 – 2021 Board certified Neurosurgeon and later as Assistant professor, Szent Gyorgy University Teaching Hospital of Fejer
County, Szekesfehervar, Hungary - 2019 – present Assistant professor Neurosurgeon, functioning as a Consultant – Medicover Private Hospital
Part time job
- 2011 – present Neurosurgery private outpatient clinic
Postgraduate International Training Courses
- IMAST 2019
26th International Meeting on Advanced Spine Techniques
17-20 July 2019 – Amsterdam, Netherlands - AO Spine Advanced Course – Spinal trauma
17-18 May 2018, Ljubljana, Slovenia - AO Spine Advanded Level Specimen/Live Tissue Course – Minimally invasive anterior
approaches to the lumbar and thoracic spine and their complication menagement
19-20 April 2018, Norderstedt/Hamburg, Germany - AO Spine Advanced Level Specimen Course – Anterior Spine Surgery and Approaches
07-08 September, 2017 , Innsbruck, Austria - 2nd Global Foot and Ankle Congress – invited speaker
26-29 May, 2017 – Chongqing, China - AO Spine Advanced Symposium – Ageing Spine: Lumbar and Cervical Degeneration
30-31 March, 2017 – Prague, Czech Republic - Medtronic 13th Summer University – Being a spine surgeon in today’s healthcare environment
6-8 July, 2016 – Munich, Germany - AO Spine – Advanced Symposium—Challenges in Spine Surgery: Non-Standard Pathologies,
Infections and Osteoporosis
23-24 June, 2016 – St. Petersburg, Russia - AO Spine Masters
13-17 December, 2015 – Davos, Switzerland - IMAST 2015
22nd International Meeting on Advanced Spine Techniques
8-11 July, 2015 – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Spine Sciences Forum – Spinal Osteotomies – master course
20-21 March 2015 – Barcelona, Spain - Scoliosis Research Society – 2nd Spine Deformity Solutions:
a hands-on course from AANS and SRS
24-26 April 2014 – Houston, TX, USA - Budapest Spine Conference – combined Meeting of Hungarian Spine Society and Spine Experts
Group
29-30 November 2013 – Budapest, Hungary - 2nd Bologna-Budapest Spine Meeting
6-8 September 2012 – Budapest, Hungary - Medtronic Academy – Fundamentals of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery and Balloon
Kyphoplasty (hands on course)
13-14 August 2012 – Salzburg, Austria - 14th European Congress of Neurosurgery
9-14 October 2011 – Rome, Italy
Language
- English level B
- TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) 257 point, 2002.
- German basic
- Semmelweis University Medical School – 2004
- Norwegian on going learning