Prof Jana Zvarova, PhD (1943–2017)

147 On July 5th passed away academician professor Jana Zvarova, one of pioneers and one of most influential Medical informatics scientist and expert in Europe and in the world. Professor Jana Zvarova was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. After graduating in mathematics in 1965 at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague she has been working with several faculties of Charles University in Prague. She completed external doctoral studies under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Albert Perez, member of IFIP. He brought her attention to the field of Medical informatics and opened the contacts with founders of IMIA. Jana Zvárová founded the Medical informatics section of the Czech Society of biomedical engineering and Medical informatics in the year 1978. The same year, she received Ph.D. scientific degree at Charles University in Prague. She passed the habilitation at Charles University in 1991 and she was nominated by the president of the Czech Republic Vaclav Havel as Full Professor at Charles University in Prague in 1999. She reached the highest Czech scientific degree, Doctor of Sciences in 1999 at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Professor Jana Zvárová has delivered presentations and published internationally on Medical informatics and statistics issues and systematically sought to apply new theoretical knowledge in biomedicine, particularly in relation to Epidemiology and Public health and their subsequent transfer to the educational process. Since 1994 she has chaired the European Center of Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology of Charles University and Academy of Sciences CR (EuroMISE Center), and between 2006-2011 professor Jana Zvárová was the director of the Center of Biomedical Informatics. She was the representative of the Czech Republic to the Councils of International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI). She had significant professional participation in national and international initiatives in biomedical informatics and statistics, especially in the field of research, higher education and continuing education using new information technology. She has been a member of the editorial boards of national and international journals. She has served as the expert in the field for the EC and Czech governmental institutions. The results of Professor Jana Zvárová’s research activities are presented in 10 monographs and more than 300 articles in peer-reviewed journals. The total number of citations of her work is more than 600 and she was the main author of three patents directed to biomedicine. She has initiated the deProf Jana Zvarova, PhD (1943–2017)