General Practitioner

Head of the Department of General Practice, 1^st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University

Scientific Secretary, Czech Society of General Practice

Certificated at the Charles University in Prague in 1981. Specialised in general practice in Prague, 1985. Currently  working part time in a teaching general practice in Prague.

      He completed his doctoral studies in preventive medicine in 2007 based on the work: Epidemiological studies in primary care and their impact on clinical gastroenterology. In 2009 he was appointed as an associated professor at Charles University in Prague.

Bohumil Seifert’ research interest has been in the epidemiology and management of gastrointestinal disorders in primary care and in secondary prevention of colorectal cancer. 
      He has been one of leading persons in colorectal cancer screening programme in the Czech Republic since the beginning in 2000. He has published several articles in impacted journals and presented data on the screening at local and international meetings (UEGW, DDW, WONCA). He is an author of a guidebook for general practitioners on colorectal cancer screeening. He served as a scientitific secretary of European Society for Primary Care Gastroenterology for 3 years.

He was a chair of the Organizing Committee of the WONCA World Conference in Prague, in June 2013. 

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Habilitation thesis