CURRICULUM VITAE
Ales BOUREK, M.D
born 28 June, 1957, Brno, Czech
Republic
Bulharská 33
612 00 Brno
Czech Republic
http://www.med.muni.cz/~bourek/
http://www.ivf.cz
phone: +420-603477645
fax: +420-549493323
RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT:
* Head of University
Center for Healthcare Quality
(Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
http://www.med.muni.cz/cekz). Advisor for Ministry of Health on standards
and quality assurance in health care. Project
manager, Quality implementation
for health and healthcare.
* Deputy leader DG SANCO Health
Systems Working Party until 2009. Active Member EFQM Health CoP (European Foundation for Quality Management Health Community of Practise),
WHO and ESQH collaborator
in the field of healthcare quality
management and HC quality improvement education
* Devised and evaluated the methodology
for creating Standards of Effective Medical
Care. Introduced HTA in Czech
Rep. Co-founder of the Server of
Quality (Internet virtual workspace for healthcare quality collaboration). Active in healthcare performance measurement in Czech Rep.
* Collaborates with the Faculty of
Informatics of the Brno University on efficient
use of information technologies applied to medical data mining, warehousing and filtering, classification and summarization, medical information management and machine learning
for medical text analysis
(http://www.fi.muni.cz/kd/). Senior lecturer in health informatics, Brno Faculty of Medicine,
MU.
* Heads a private facility offering complete range of infertility diagnostics and treatment as well as full range outpatient
based gynecology and obstetrics. For over 20 years performs
all embryological procedures necessary in assisted reproduction. Designes hardware used in IVF. Is vice-president
of the Czech
Society for Quality in Healthcare
(http://www.cskz.cz)
* Served for 6 years as member of the
Board of Governors, Czech Medical Council. Actively involved in the transformation of Czech health
care. Coordinated for four years the gynecological
section of the Scientific Committee of the
Czech Medical Council and for five years headed
the Center for Healthcare Quality of the
National Institute of
Public Health.
CLINICAL WORK AND TEACHING:
* Designed the curriculum and teaches Health Informatics at the Medical School
of T.G. Masaryk University (http://www.med.muni.cz).
* For 16 years lectured gynecology and obstetrics as assistant professor of Department of gynecology and
obstetrics.
* Has sound experience in gynecological surgery, minimal invasive surgery, general gynecology and obstetrics.
* Performed all standard clinical methods used in assisted reproduction, participated in the first successful
in vitro fertilization and
embryo transfer program in Czechoslovakia.
* Served 8 years as a member of the
Ethics Committee of the Masaryk University Medical Faculty.
* Assured operative and general gynecology
and obstetrics for three years at
the Regional Hospital of Kasserine,
Tunisia. Counseled on family planning, obstetrics and gynecology in rural regions.
EDUCATION:
1982 MUDr. (medicinae universae
doctor - with Honors), University of J.E. Purkyne, Brno.
1985 "1st graduation" (specialization
exam) in gynecology and obstetrics - with Honors
1990 "2nd graduation" (superspecialization
exam) in gynecology and obstetrics - with Honors
1993 Visiting clinician Mayo Foundation, Rochester, USA
1997 Cornell Seminars in obstetrics and gynecology, Salzburg, Austria
1999 Training in Health
Technology Assessment and
EFQM implementation in healthcare
2003 PhD. in informatics support for infertility treatment and assisted reproductive
technologies
LANGUAGES:
Fluent in English and Russian, proficient in German and French
PUBLICATION ACTIVITIES:
Author of monographs and articles dealing with healthcare quality management, health informatics, machine learning and textual information analysis for healthcare use and for support of assisted reproductive technologies.