Dr. Pál Simon has over 50 years of experience in public health, epidemiology, hygiene, and health informatics. He has held numerous leadership roles within the Hungarian healthcare system and military medical services. Currently, he works part-time as a teacher and adviser on health informatics. His career has focused on developing information systems, electronic health records, and smart card technologies to improve healthcare management and delivery.

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P R O F E S S I O N A L S C I E N T I F I C C U R R I C U L U M V I T A E
P E R S O N A L D A T A
Full name: Dr. Pál SIMON, MD Ph Sc
Data of birth: 23 03 1939.
Nationality Hungarian
Work status at present: Pensioner (28 12 1995)
Actual job Part-time teacher, adviser, expert
Beginning of the actual employment: February 1, 1993.
P R O F E S S I O N A L E D U C A T I O N A N D Q U A L I F I C A T I O N ( W I T H D A T E S )
1982 Philosophy of Informatics Sciences (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest)
1975 Public Health (Institute of the Post gradual Medical Education, Budapest)
1972 Epidemiology and Hygiene (Institute of the Post gradual Medical Education, Budapest)
1967-68 Military Health Organization (post gradual military health management education,
Academy of Military Medicine, Leningrad - Saint-Petersburg)
1963 Semmelweis Medical University, Faculty of General Medicine Budapest, medical
diploma
P A S T P L A C E S O F W O R K A N D P O S T S
From 10 09 2014 Part-time teacher of health informatics in the Applied Informatics Institute of John von
Neumann Faculty of the Obuda University.
From 01 02 2006 –
31 01 2014
Part-time teacher of health informatics in the Institute of Development and Higher
Education in the field of Health Informatics, Faculty of Public Health, Semmelweis
University (Budapest)
01 02 2003 – 30 06 2005 Senior expert of eHealth Programme in National Institute for Strategic Health Research
on theme: The exploitation of R&D results in health informatics
01 09 2002 – 30 11 2004 Senior adviser in the Information Strategy Deputy State Secretariat of the Ministry of
Informatics and Communications
01 04 2001 – 05 31 2002 Senior adviser in the e-Government Division of Information Commission of the Premier
Ministry's Office
01 03 2000 – 21 12 2000. Senior adviser in the Information Service of the Administration Office of National Health
Insurance
01 05 1996 – 31 12 1996 Deputy manager of Information Service of the Administration Office of National Health
Insurance
1993-1995 Head of Informatics and Methodology Department of the National Institute of Psychiatry
and Neurology
1988-1993. Head of Informatics and Methodology Department of the National Institute of Hygiene
1983-1987. Director of Information, Communication and Planning-Methodology Centre of the
Ministry of Health
1963-1983. Different posts of the Military Medicine Service in Hungarian Army (the medical service
chief of the missile brigade, of the army, the head of preventive-curative department of the
Ministry of Defence, the commander of the Military Hospital, No 1)

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M O R E I M P O R T A N T S P E C I A L R E F E R E N C E S
Professional specialty:
and field of outstanding
interest:
Epidemiologist, hygienist, specialist for public health, first of all specialists on
health informatics.
Theory and methodology of health informatics, ‘patient-oriented' and
'management-oriented' information systems, smart card systems in health care,
electronic health care records and problem-oriented health care records, divided
data bases and networks, data protection and problems of privacy, information
methodology of relations effects among the environmental health and health
insurance (meta data bases), education of health informatics.
Former international
experiences and/or work,
projects:
Participating in the international scientific work and events of health informatics:
European Federation for Medical Informatics-WG Cards, in research by topics
‘Data protection – privacy – in Medical Informatics’;
Portable Problem-oriented Platform-independent Records’ and ‘Health
Application of Smart Card Systems – professional cards, multifunctional cards’;
Arrangement and organisation of the continuation of Italian – Hungarian and
Bavarian – Hungarian bilateral projects on the common realising of eHealth
strategy.
The participation in the different EU – IST projects:
- Regional and International Integrated Telemedicine Network for Medical
assistance in End-stage diseases and Organ Transplant (RETRANSPLANT);
- Telemedicine and Health Informatics Thematic Network (THIN);
- An intelligent environment to access information and knowledge in
neuroscience (NEUROWEB);
- Developing a secure platform to promote eHealth services in Europe
(EuroHealthNet).
More important project
management activity
2003: Senior expert of the Health Ministry’s Conference and Exhibition on
eHealth in Europe (22-23 May 2003, Brussels);
2002-2004: Coordinator of eHealth Strategy in the framework of the
governmental program on Hungarian Information Society Strategy;
2000-2003: Developing and introducing of the health informatics and
telemedicine systems for transmission and integration of information systems
and health data between medical structures in Hungary and Italy;
1999-2000: Senior expert in the Y2K project on the Administration Office of
National Health Insurance;
1997-1999: Senior expert in the hospital management information system
modernization of the framework of World Bank programme;
1995-1996: Head of the project management board on the modernisation of the
information strategy on health insurance system;
1992-1993: Coordinator of the organization of common Hungarian-Canadian
health informatics school (University of Victoria BC Canada – Public Health
School, Budapest);
1992-1993: Coordinator of the Public Health Information Systems in the
framework of World Bank programme;
1983-1985: project manager of the first microcomputer tender on level of
inpatient clinics.

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T H E M E M B E R S H I P O F S C I E N T I F I C S O C I E T Y , S C I E N T I F I C B I B L I O G R A P H Y
The membership of society:
- The Hungarian Society of Hygiene
- The registered member of informatics corporation in Mathematics board of the Hungarian Scientific Academy
(serial number: 1948, number of registration: 03107),
- European Federation for Medical Informatics – Senior member of the Word Group on Personalised Portable
Devices (WG PPD) from 2004.
More important bibliography (Selection of scientific bibliography published in foreign literature):
Simon, Pál: Some Problems in the advanced Military Public Health and Epidemiological Service in Statistical
System illustrated by means of model applicable computer based approach of data processing. Revue
International des Services de Sante. 9-10. 1974. 686-687.
Simon, Pál; Naszlady, Attila: Memory card - Micro chip - in Primary Health Care. MEDINFO’86, Washington,
IFIP-IMIA, R.Salamon, B.Blum, M.Jorgensen (eds.), Elsevier Science Publisher B.V. (North Holland),
Proceedings pp. 1015-1019.
P. Simon and A. Naszlady: Primary Haelth Care in Hungary. Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics. P. L.
Reichertz and D. A. B. Lindberg (eds.), Springer-Verlag 1987 29,.pp. 170-180.
Pál Simon: The Modernization of Health Informatics in Hungary. International Symposium of Medical Informatics
and Education. Editors: R. Salamon, D. Protti, J.M. Moehr. University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., Canada,
Proceedings: 54-58 pp. 1989.
Dr. P. Simon, Dr. J. Simon (Ms.): Problems of the Privacy in the Medical Informatics. Medical Informatics
Europe’90, Glasgow, Scotland, August 20-23, 1990. Proceedings Springer-Verlag, pp. 620-622.
Simon, P.: About the "key-function" of the Patient Card. Symposium on Clinical Uses of Patient Card. Reading,
England, October 10-11, 1991, Proceedings (Workbook): pp:51-55.
Dr. Pál Simon M.D.,Ph.Sc.: Investigation of Systems of Prevention from Informatics point of view. Fifth
International Conference on System Science in Health Care. 1992, Prague. Eds: M-K. Chytil, G. Duru, W.van
Eimeren, Ch.D. Flagle. OMNIPRESS Publisher Prague. Proceedings: pp. 1204-1207.
Pál Simon M.D., Ph.Sc.: The Problems of Developing Telemedicine in Hungary. First International Conference
on Medical Aspects of Telemedicine. University Hospital of Tromsø - Norwegian Telecom Research, Tromsø,
20th-22nd May, 1993. Abstracts: p.47.
Economic measurements to assist the issues of the environment protection especially in the field of the
connection of health care and health insurance. Volum. I.-II. and Summary. This study was supported by the
Commision of the Europen Union in framework of Phare program. Editors: Fecske, Mihály; Gidai, Erzsébet (Ms);
Simon, Pál. 1994.
Z. Nagy, P. Simon, E. Sipos (Ms), Gy. Kozmann: The main elements of information system of the National
Stroke Program (Smart Card-Telecommunication-Knowledge bases) MEDINFO 95 Proceedings. R. A. Greenes
et al. (editors) © 1995 IMIA. pp. 1496-1499.
Pál Simon M.D. Ph. Sc., László D. Molnár M.D., Béla Juhász: Portable Electronic Patient Record with special
database functions (PATREC): preparation of the health card system application. Health Cards ’99 Congress,
Milan, 5-7 October 1999, Proceeding (edit: Francesco Sicurello): pp. 74-78
Simon, P.: Multifunctional Smart Doctor Card. NETLINK - CEE and Telematics in Healthcare of the Czech
Republic. 8-9 December 2000. Congress Hall of teh Central Military Hospital. Prague.
Simon, P.: Multifunctional Smart Doctor Card (Carta Intelligente Multifunzionale per Medici). Smart Card Italy -
2000. 12 December 2000. Universita degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca.
Pál Simon M.D.Ph.Sc., Dénes Kellner, László Békési M.D., István Loványi, István Schiszler M.D.: Portable
Patient Record Model (PPRM) for the introducing of smart card system and preparation of the interactive
database network. MEDINFO 2001 London, September 2-5 2001. Poster proceedings 252-8.
SMART CARDS AND THE BACKGROUND SYSTEMS conference on tasks defined by the eEurope and
eEurope + initiatives. June 28 – 29 2001 Budapest. Proceedings. Executive editor: Dr. Simon Pál

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Dr. Francesco SICURELLO, Dr. Pál SIMON, Dr. Patrizia MAGRETTI (Ms), Ágota MEDGYESI (Ms): The goals
and the perspectives of the common research and development work: the Italian – Hungarian bilateral
programme. Medical Informatics Europe 2002 G. Surján et al. (eds) IOS Pr3ess 2002. Proceedings: pp 143-147.
P. Simon, F. Sicurello, P. Magretti, Á. Medgyesi: The bilateral cooperation program between Italy and Hungary:
„Common Modell, objectives and perspectives”. @ITIM Conference, 27-30 October 2002, Azienda Ospedaliera
Careggi, Firenze.
Pál SIMON :Health informatics knowledge engineering tools for medical workflow support and its exploitation
(National Institute for Strategic Health Research) IST Event 2004, Hague 15-17 November; Session 434: ICT
Research Infrastructures for biomedical research and healthcare.
Sandor G. Vari, Tamas Gergely, Pal Simon: Development and Implementation of Information Society
Technologies and Activities in Hungary from 1996-2003. It was presented: E-HEALTH IN CENTRAL AND EAST
EUROPEAN COUNTRIES with focus on Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia. PETR NOVOTNY European
Commission, DG Information Society, eHealth Unit. Brussels 29.2.2004.
Dr. Pál Simon MD Ph SC: eCARDS – eRECORDS – DATABASES – HEALTH and PATEINTCARE
MANAGEMENT - Toward to Personalised Health and Informatics. e-GOVERNMENT & e-HEALTH 6th
International Conference and Exhibition. July, 9-11, 2009 Villa Tittoni-Traversi Via Lampugnani, 66 Desio (MB).
Dr. Pál Simon MD Ph. Sc.: ICT SOLUTIONS FOR THE MEDICAL WORK OF THE PERSONALIZED
TREATMENT (PHEALTH): OPPORTUNITIES AND EXPECTATIONS October, 2-3, 2013 TeleMediCare,
Hospital of DESIO (MB) – Italy.
Dr. Pál Simon MD Ph. Sc.: ICT SOLUTIONS FOR THE PERSONALIZED TREATMENT (PHEALTH):
POSSIBILITY, OPPORTUNITIES AND EXPECTATIONS MEDTEL 2013 November 27 – 28, 2013 (Wednesday
and Thursday) Clarion Congress Hotel Prague, Czech Republic.
K N O W L E D G E O F F O R E I G N L A N G U A G E S , A N D I T ’ S L E V E L :
English Knowledge for the individual scientific work, lecturing, readiness for discussions (ph. sc. level);
Russian Knowledge for free conversation and discussion (higher level).
O F F I C I A L A D D R E S S , P H O N E , F A X . E - M A I L
Mailing address: Szabolcska Mihály u. 5. 2/1. Budapest, Hungary, H-1114, Phone: +361-789-1534;
Cell: +3630-4740611; E-mail: pl.simon46@gmail.com simon.pal6@upcmail.hu.
January
1
2015
Budapest
Dr. Pál Simon MD Ph Sc
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