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Martin Prazny

Martin Prazny MD, PhD, CSc

Internal Medicine and General Medicine
Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

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Martin Prazny is Professor of Internal Medicine at the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. He currently serves as a Senior Consultant in diabetes, Head of the Diabetes Unit of the Third Department of Internal Medicine, and Head of Diabetes Centre of the General Faculty Hospital in Prague. Dr. Prazny graduated from the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, in 1997. He continued to study at Charles University, completing a CSc scientific degree in internal medicine and a Ph.D. in biochemistry. While obtaining his Ph.D., he published several original papers on the microvasculature, endothelial function, and oxidative stress in diabetes and other endocrine disorders. He undertook a research placement at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, where he investigated the genetic causes of vascular complications in diabetes.

Prof Prazny is a member of the Czech Diabetes Society, the European Society for Microcirculation, and the European Association for Study of Diabetes. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh. He published more than 80 articles in scientific journals, has more than 840 citations and an H-index of 18.
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