Prof. RNDr. Jana Zvárová, DrSc.

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Professional curicullum vitae

Prof. RNDr. Jana Zvárová, DrSc. has delivered presentations and published internationally since 1969 on medical informatics and statistics issues. She is a full professor of Charles University, a doctor of sciences of the Academy of Sciences CR and a representative of the Czech Republic in the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI). In both these international organizations she has been involved in activities of working groups on medical informatics and education and in scientific or world organization committees of MEDINFO and European MIE congresses and working conferences. She has significant professional participation in national and international initiatives in medical informatics and statistics, especially in the field of data analysis, decision support systems, information theory and higher education and continuing education using new information technology. She was one of three editors of "Diagnostic Strategies and Expert Systems" published by the North Holland (1986) and one of two editors of "Knowledge, Information and Medical Education" published by the North Holland (1991) . She has been actively involved in several European Commission projects and she has participated as a member of the editorial board of the International Journal for Medical Informatics and Methods of Information in Medicine and as the chief editor of the Czech journal "Physician and Technology". Since 2001 she has been a chairwoman of the subject board for biomedical fields (Charles University) and Stochastic genetics (Charles University 2001)

Education

• Mgr. (master's degree) (mathematics), Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University, Prague, 1965
• RNDr. (mathematics), Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University, Prague 1970
• CSc. (Ph.D.) degree in physical-mathematical sciences, specialization probability and mathematical statistics, 1978
• Doc. (Associate Professor) degree, Charles University, Prague 1991
• Prof. (Full Professor) degree, Charles University, Prague 1999
• DrSc. (Doctor of Science), Academy of Sciences CR, 1999

Experience record

• 1965-1970 Lecturer, Charles University, Faculty of Pediatrics
• 1970-1976 Research Specialist, Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Prague
• 1976-1977 Research Specialist, Institute of Social Medicine and Health Care Organization
• since 1977 First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Senior Lecturer , since 1987 the head of Medical Informatics Unit, since 1991 an associate professor, since 1999 a professor
• since 1994 the head of the European Centre for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology of Charles University and Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
• Since 1996 the head of the Department of Medical Informatics, Institute of Computer Science AS CR
• Since 2000 the director of the research centre EuroMISE - Cardio

Research interests

Study of association measurement, especially information measurements of statistical dependence and their statistical properties. Application of theoretical results into the medical/health problems, especially in connection with selection and extraction of features for decision support in medicine. Study of new approaches to data analyses and association of risk factors and study of population and family diseases. Research of decision support under uncertainty and testing of programme prototypes in selected medical fields. She has been a supervisor of many dissertation and diploma theses on this topic. She has participated in many Czech and international research projects. She has been a scientific coordinator of 2 European projects and she has worked on 3 European projects as a resolver.

Membership in professional societies and organizations

• 1977 - Czechoslovak Society for Biomedical Engineering and Medical Informatics, the head of the Medical Informatics section, a member of the board
• 1979 - a representative of the Czech Republic in the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), a member of IMIA WG1 Information Science and Medical Education
• 1986 - a member of the editorial board of the International Journal for Biomedical Computing
• 1987 - a member of the editorial board of the national journal Physician and Technology, since 1999 an editor-in-chief
• 1990-1993 Czechoslovak Association for Medical Informatics and System Science, president
• 1995 - a representative of the Czech Republic in European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI)
• 1997 - a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Medical Informatics
• 1996 - a member of the board of the Czech Society for Cybernetics and Informatics
• 1997 - a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Medical Informatics
• 1997 - honorary membership of the Romanian Medical Informatics Society
• 1999 - a member of the editorial board of the Methods of Information in Medicine

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