prof. MUDr. Pavel Kalvach, CSc. ****************************************************************************************** * ******************************************************************************************
Department of Neurology 3FM CU and UHKV https://www.lf3.cuni.cz/3LFEN-349.html [ URL "https://www.lf3.cuni.cz/3LFEN-349.html"] Topic title Capacity of language skills (naming and repetition) in motherlanguage vs foreign languages knowledge compared with disease deficits. *========================================================================================= * Description of scientific activity *========================================================================================= Board certified neurologist since 1975. PhD on „Cerebral perfusion“ in 1984. In 1988 appoi of Dept. of Neurology, Cz Institute for Postgraduate Medicine, with responsibility for neu certifications in Czechoslovakia. 1991-1994 he attended a collaborative research on „Cereb disease“ in the extent of 4 x 3 months at Yale, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. In 1996 -2006 chairman of Dept. of Neurology, 3rd Medical faculty, Charles University in Prague. In the Federation of Neurological Societies (EFNS) appointed General secretary in 1999 (4 years) Vicepresident in 2003 (4 years). Main author of „Cerebral ischaemia and haemorrhage“, 3 ed 1985, updated 1996 and 2010, awarded by 2 national prices in Czechoslovakia. The research activities were devoted to cerebral blood flow, investigations of dependence blood flow in ultrasonography and leukoaraiosis, haemodynamics in normal and stenotic caro capacity of cerebral vasodilatation and constriction influenced by breath holding and hype component was also a collaborative research using Positron Emission Tomography in brain in by a Swiss-Czech grant in Graubünden. After his engagement in topics of stroke and haemody studied factors of mental deterioration in senium and the interface between normal aging a disease. The last years were devoted to observations in the faculties of language, namely of repetition and naming in normal persons of various age as well as in the aphasic patien these activities he acted as organizer in educational projects of the European Federation Societies, with 19 courses for young neurologists in our country and some 12 courses abroa years he participated in editorial boards of some journals, like Remedia, Česká a slovensk Neurochir. or Journal of the Neurological Sciences. *========================================================================================= * Selected publications *========================================================================================= GRAHAM, Glenn and KALVACH, Pavel and BLAMIRE, AM et al. Clinical correlates of Proton Magn Spectroscopy findings after acute cerebral infarction. Stroke, 1995, vol. 26, p. 225-229. KALVACH, Pavel, GREGOVÁ, Daniela, ŠKODA, Ondřej, PEISKER, Tomáš, TERMEROVÁ, Jana, KORSA, J blood supply with aging: Normal, stenotic and recanalized. J Neurol Sci, 2007, vol. 257, n 143-148. (IF: 2.315) Connolly, SJ; Yusuf, S; Camm, J; Chrolavicius, P; KALVACH, Pavel; Pěnička, M; Widimský, P; Effect of Clopidogrel Added to Aspirin in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation. New England J Medicine, 2009, vol. 360, no. 20, s. 2066-2078. (IF: 47.05) KALVACH, Pavel, VOGNER, Martin. Parting with the Concept of Alzheimer’s Disease in Senium. 2019, volume 3, issue 3, doi:10.21926/obm.geriatr.1903060 *========================================================================================= * Selected or ongoing grants/clinical studies *========================================================================================= 2020-2026: TheraLymph –Gene Therapy to restore lymphatic flow lymphedema, H2020 SC1-BHC-07 874708 2021-2024: Novel approaches to enhance insulin-sensitizing effects of exercise: targeting ETAPA; Czech Health Research Council project NU21-01-00469 2019 - 2022: Pancreatic cancer: metabolic derangements assiocated with insulin resistence Health Research Council project NV19-01-00101, Co-PI: Lenka Rossmeislova *========================================================================================= * PhD Students *========================================================================================= Number of PhD students currently studying : 0 Number of defended students with year of defence: 6 (2007, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2021)