About me

Thirty years in obstetrics.

Professor and head of clinic. Advocate for women’s reproductive rights. Devotee of evidence-based medicine. Father of four.

Positions

The subjects I keep returning to

Not only medicine. What I write, lecture and publish about repeatedly — with the sources to back it.

Women's reproductive rights

I speak publicly about access to contraception and about conscientious objection, which denies patients even medically indicated procedures.

Sources

blog “We only prescribe hormonal contraception to nuns” · Ráno nahlas podcast

Respectful maternity care

I speak about the standing of midwives, conditions in Slovak maternity wards, and why both staff and mothers are leaving them.

Sources

podcasts Všeobecne o zdraví, V redakcii, Na rovinu (Aktuality.sk)

Women's quality of life after birth

Both my doctoral and habilitation theses examined what birth does to a woman long term — incontinence, sexuality and quality of life postpartum.

Sources

doctoral thesis 2007 · habilitation thesis 2011 · PAREZ study, Int Urogynecol J 2022

Evidence before conviction

I also study how worldview shapes clinical decisions — for instance future doctors’ attitudes to HPV vaccination — and how to reduce caesareans systematically.

Sources

J Cancer Educ 2021 · Cent Eur J Public Health 2020 · Int J Gynecol Obstet 2018—2020

Career

From graduation to professorship

Academic degrees, board exams and certificates in one sequence — from Bratislava via Prague and back.

  1. 1995

    Graduation

    Comenius University Faculty of Medicine, Bratislava — with honours

  2. 1998

    Board exam

    First degree — gynaecology and obstetrics

  3. 2002

    Board exam

    Second degree — gynaecology and obstetrics

  4. 2007

    Ph.D.

    First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague

  5. 2010

    Certificate

    Perinatology and fetal-maternal medicine, Prague

  6. 2011

    Habilitation

    Associate professor — First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague

  7. 2021

    Inauguration

    Professor — gynaecology and obstetrics

Research interests

What I work on

Labour ward practice and conducting births

Evidenced by

Chapters on conducting births in the 2022 obstetrics textbook · international multicentre study on labour induction — Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol 2018

Antenatal care for healthy and high-risk mothers

Evidenced by

Studies on nutrition and lifestyle in pregnancy — Nutrients 2024, Bratisl Lek listy 2024

Monitoring the quality of maternity care

Evidenced by

A series of studies on reducing caesarean rates — Int J Gynaecol Obstet 2018, 2019, 2020 · J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med 2025

Follow-up care after severe birth injury

Evidenced by

Charles University Prague grant project 2004—2006 · doctoral thesis 2007 · habilitation thesis 2010

Infectious disease in pregnancy

Evidenced by

Founder and chair of the ČGPS Section for Infectious Disease in Gynaecology and Obstetrics, 2009—2013

Infections of the female genital tract

Evidenced by

Author of the textbook Základy moderní venerologie, 2015 · papers on HPV vaccination — J Cancer Educ 2021 · Cent Eur J Public Health 2020

Roles and memberships

Guarantorships and learned societies

Programme guarantor, Comenius University

3 procedures
Habilitation and inauguration proceduresField of gynaecology and obstetrics
Doctoral programmeField of gynaecology and obstetrics
Subspecialty certificationMaternal-fetal medicine

Slovak Society of Gynaecology and Obstetrics (SGPS)

2021 — present
Viceprezident
Výbor spoločnosti (SGPS)
Predseda
Sekcia infekčných chorôb

Czech Society of Gynaecology and Obstetrics (ČGPS)

2009 — 2013

Association for the Support of Obstetrics and Fetal-Maternal Medicine

2025 — present
Zakladajúci člen
Štatutár združenia
Contact

Have a health problem and need a second opinion? Looking for a consultation or an expert report?

It is a patient’s basic right to know a specialist’s second opinion. As the author of a comprehensive textbook, a university teacher and a court expert, I am obliged to keep up daily with the latest information in my field and to stay current in modern evidence-based medicine. I will prepare a second opinion on your health problem, founded on the most recent findings of medical science, adapted to Slovak conditions and backed by my professional experience.

It is intended above all for pregnant women with a high-risk pregnancy, or with a chronic condition. I give particular care to women with lasting problems after birth, above all those tied to pelvic-floor dysfunction — problems with urination, with stool, or in the sexual sphere. Consultations are provided together with a gynaecological physiotherapist.

Expert reports are provided to private individuals, law firms, criminal-justice authorities and the courts.

Clinic

Každý utorok 9.00 – 13.00, poliklinika nemocnice Ružinov, dvere č. 55.
Objednávky telefonicky na +421 2 48234 761.

Address

II. gynekologicko-pôrodníckaklinika LF UK a UNBFakultná nemocnica RužinovRužinovská 6, 821 06 Bratislava

Phone

02 / 48 234 349