ITAPA Open Talk: Slovakia has the most efficient healthcare in Europe - how to make it a reality?;
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Richard Raši
Richard Raši is a trained physician. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in Košice. He worked as a trauma surgeon, doctor of several sports teams, later as deputy director of the L. Pasteur Hospital in Košice, Director of the University Hospital in Bratislava and then in 2008 became the Minister of Health of the Slovak Republic. Since 2010, he has served as a Member of the National Assembly of the Slovak Republic. In 2010, he also became the Mayor of Košice, which he headed until 2018. He was then appointed Deputy Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic for Investment and Informatisation. From 2020 to 2023, as a member of the National Assembly, he served as chairman of the Committee on Incompatibility of Functions and later as a memb…
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Vladimír Lengvarský
He graduated from the Military Medical Academy in Hradec Králové, department of general medicine (1988-1993). In 1996, at the Institute for Further Education of Healthcare Workers in Bratislava, he obtained a 1st degree specialization - general medicine. He completed a three-year study in the field of "public health management expert" at the Slovak Medical University in Bratislava (2005-2008). In 2000, he obtained a 2nd degree specialization - general medicine at the Slovak Postgraduate Academy of Medicine in Bratislava. He was accepted into the service of a professional soldier while studying at a military college on January 1, 1988. In the years 2020 to 2021, he worked as the director of the Central Military Hospital SNP Ružomberok.
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Jana Bittó Cigániková
Chairwoman of the National Council of the Slovak Republic Committee for Health Care, Member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic, SaS team leader for health care. She graduated from the Faculty of Public Administration of the University of Economics and Public Administration in Bratislava, Department of Public Administration Management and Central European Management Institute (Prague), Department of Healthcare Management. She has experience in communal politics and has completed a number of internships in medical facilities. Together with a team of experts, she has prepared the historically best-rated program in the field of healthcare.
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Michal Kovačič
He completed high school studies at the Jura Hronac Gymnasium (1997 – 2001) and then a master's degree in law at the Faculty of Law of the Comenius University in Bratislava (2002 – 2009). Under the guidance of Ingrid Frohlichová, he devoted his diploma thesis to the issue of pension reform in Slovakia, and completed his defense on February 12, 2009. He started working in the field of media during his university studies, first as a production assistant (April 2002 – January 2004) and later as a moderator and morning news reporter (February 2004 – May 2007) at Slovak Television (STV). From March 2006 to December 2007, he worked as a radio news presenter at Fun radio, and from May 2007 to January 2008, he was a news reporter at STV. Since F…
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Vladimír Baláž
Since 2012, member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic and member of the Health Care Committee. Head of the Urological Clinic of the SZU FNsP FD Roosevelt Banská Bystrica, the main expert of the Ministry of Health of the SR for urology. For many years he worked in the management of FNsP FD Roosevelt Banská Bystrica (deputy for LPS, director). The main center of interest is innovation, robotic surgery (head of the Center for Robotic Surgery in Banská Bystrica) and transplant medicine (head of the Transplantation Center at FNsP FDR Banská Bystrica).
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