Laszlo Fonyad PhD

Dr. László Fónyad graduated from Semmelweis University (SU), Faculty of Medicine (Budapest, Hungary) in 2004. After completing their pathology residency, he became a faculty member at the 1st. Department of Pathology and Experimental Cancer Research, SU.

Dr. Fónyad received his Ph.D. degree in the field of digital pathology in 2015 at Semmelweis University. His interest in digital pathology started as a student and still continues. He was the first to introduce digital slides into graduate education in Hungary, he headed numerous pilot projects to adopt digital slides in routine surgical pathology and also coordinated an international validation study of a digital slide-based telepathology system for routine sign-out between Sundsvall Hospital, Sweden, and Semmelweis University, Hungary. As a part of his Ph.D. program, he received a grant from the Hungarian-American Enterprise Scholarship Fund (HAESF) and held a visiting research fellow position at the Pathology Imaging and Communication Technology (PICT) Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, (Boston, US) where he worked with Yukako Yagi, John Gilbertson, and Robert B. Colvin.

He is a former advisor to 3DHISTECH Ltd., (Budapest, Hungary) one of the pioneers and market leaders in whole slide imaging (WSI), developing high-performance hardware and software solutions for digital pathology.

Dr. Fónyad has organized international pathology courses in the field of dermatopathology in conjunction with the American Austrian Foundation and Semmelweis University, hosting acknowledged pathologists, such as Dr. Calonje and Dr. Steven Billings. Dr. Fónyad is also actively involved in the pathology training of medical students and residents at his institute.

Dr. Fonyad organizes and manages the digital slide course collection.