Péter Gaszner (4 August 1939 – 25 July 2017) was a Hungarian psychiatrist, chief physician of the National Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology in Hungary, and professor of the Semmelweis University in Budapest.
Personal life
The parents of Gaszner are László Gaszner (Komádi, November 4, 1904 – 1983) and Marianne Barkóczy Klopsch (Budapest, March 15, 1908 – 2003), a highschool teacher. His paternal grandparents were Károly Gaszner and Mária Kugler and his maternal grandparents were Béla Barkóczy (1872–1957) and Róza Buday (1882–1974). He completed his schools in Békéscsaba and Diósgyőr, later in the Újdiósgyőr High School. He received his medical degree from the Medical University of Debrecen. His children are Andrea (born 1965), Balázs (born 1969), Gábor (born 1978), and Mariann (born 1984). Three of his children became doctors; Mariann chose a career in economics. Gaszner rests in the Barkóczy-Gaszner crypt in Eger, in the Hatvani Cemetery (next to Szépasszony Valley).
Career
After a short detour in Miskolc, he became a neurologist between 1963 and 1978 and then a psychiatrist at the Neurology and Mental Clinic of the Medical University of Pécs under the supervision of Professor Környey. For most of his career, from 1978 to 2007, he worked in the psychiatric department of the National Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology in Budapest. He spent twenty years of his more than 45-year teaching career as a professor at Semmelweis University, where he habilitated in 1995. He was the chief physician of the National Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology (OPNI, Lipótmező) between 1908 and 2007, until the closure of the institute. He led a class of one hundred and forty people. In 1997, he became a Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (DSc) He is a member of the advisory board of the medical department of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Foreign research and recognition
His most important professional study visits are to Gdańsk, one-year visits to Manchester, Umeå, Buenos Aires and several visits to Nashville, Tennessee (Vanderbilt University). Széchenyi professor scholarship Honorary member of the Swedish Psychiatric Association Honorary Doctor of the University of Buenos Aires
Society memberships
Secretary of the Neurological and Psychiatric Committee. Academic Almanac 1985 Part I. Members and scientific bodies of the Academy He has held senior positions in the World Association of Psychiatry (WPA) and Neuro-Psychopharmacology (CINP) President of the Hungarian Society of Psychopharmacology He is the founding editor-in-chief of the professional journal Neuropsychopharmacologia