Prof. Jan Plzák, M.D., Ph.D.

Mailing adress
Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery
1^st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Faculty Hospital Motol
V Uvalu 84, 150 06 Prague 5
CZECH REPUBLIC
jan.plzak@fnmotol.cz

Born
April 30, 1974

Degrees
1992 – 1998 - 1^st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague (M.D.)
2001 - 1^st postgraduate diploma in otorhinolaryngology and head and neck surgery
1998 - 2001 Postgradual study of biomedicine, Field: Biology and pathology of cell, Thesis: Expression of endogenous lectins, especially galectins, in head and neck tumors and during physiological processes (Ph.D.)
2005 - 2^nd postgraduate diploma in otorhinolaryngology and head and neck surgery
2009 - Associate Professor of Otorhinolaryngology
2013 - Professor of Otorhinolaryngology

From 2019 General Secretary of Confederation of European Oto-Rhino-Laryngology and Head and Neck Surgery
From 2020 Chairman of the Czech Society of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery
From 2022 President of Confederation of European Oto-Rhino-Laryngology and Head and Neck Surgery   www.ceorlhns.org

Scholarships

2002 - Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital Mannheim, Faculty of Clinical Medicine, Karl-Ruprecht University Heidelberg, Germany
2007 - Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University Hospital La Paz, Madrid, Spain
2009 - Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
2011 - Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy

Selected publications

Books:

• Chrobok V., Komínek P., Plzák J., Čelakovský P., Zeleník K. a kolektiv: Otorinolaryngologie a chirurgie hlavy a krku. Tobiáš, Havlíčkův Brod, 2022
• Smilek P., Plzák J., Klozar J.: Karcinomy dutiny ústní a hltanu. Tobiáš, Havlíčkův Brod, 2015, ISBN 978-80-7311-153-3
• Čelakovský P., Plzák J., Betka J.: Krční metastázy. Tobiáš, Havlíčkův Brod, 2012, ISBN 978-80-7311-131-1
• Plzák J.: ORL pro všeobecné praktické lékaře. Raabe, Praha 2011, ISBN 978-80-86307-90-9

Articles:

All articles on PubMed

Main topics and interest

Head and neck oncology, Thyroid and parathyroid gland surgery, Skull base, Rhinology, Sleep medicine, Head and neck clinical anatomy, Cell and molecular biology, Glycobiology