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Zoltan Patay

Zoltan Patay MD, PhD

Neuroradiology
Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

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Professor Patay was born and raised in Hungary. From 1970-1975, he attended the renowned Fazekas Mihaly Gimnazium in Budapest, an elite high school with a reputation for excellence in mathematics and exact sciences. He decided to study medicine at Semmelweis University, Medical School, Budapest, Hungary, and graduated with a Doctor of Medicine (MD) in 1982. He received postgraduate training in Hungary, France (Colmar), and Belgium (Brussels), and became a board-certified neurologist and radiologist with subspecialty qualification in neuroradiology and special expertise in pediatric neuroradiology.

Zoltan almost exactly 30 years ago when he started work as a neuroradiologist with Professor Danielle Balériaux at Hôpital Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Brussels Belgium (1992-1996). During these years, he successfully prepared a Ph.D. dissertation on Applied MR-Neuroangiography, which he publicly defended on 3rd June 1996 at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary (1996). In 1997, he was appointed Chief of the Section of Neuroradiology at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (1997 – 2006). He continued his professional development in pediatric neuroradiology, with research interests focused on normal and abnormal myelination patterns, inborn errors of metabolism, multimodality tumor characterization, diffusion-weighted and diffusion tensor imaging, and epilepsy.

Professor Patay has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and wrote or contributed to 20 book chapters in major pediatric (neuro)radiology textbooks. His h-index is 23. Prof Patay was a true citizen of the world, having lived and worked in Hungary, France, Belgium, Saudi Arabia, and the USA. He was equally fluent in Hungarian, French, and English. In 2020, he became an Honorary Member of the European Society of Neuroradiology (ESNR). For many years, he served as a Board member of the Posterior Fossa Society. He was a much-appreciated lecturer in the European Course of Neuroradiology (ECNR) and in the Erasmus Course on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (EMRI).
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