Honorary membership for Mr and Mrs Havel
14 January 2011 – The premises of the Auditorium of the Central Military Hospital (CMH) Prague hosted the constitutive meeting of the Society for Gastrointestinal Oncology (SGO) of the Czech Medical Association of Jan Evangelista Purkyně (CzMA). The main initiator of the founding of the SGO is Col. Prof. MUDr. Miroslav Zavoral, Ph.D., the director of the CMH. The SGO should encourage interdisciplinary cooperation within the diagnosis and treatment of sick people and knowledge sharing of physicians of various specialties who are involved in the treatment of tumors of the gastrointestinal tract.
The uniqueness of the event was supported by the participation of Mrs Dagmar Havel and Mr President Václav Havel, who support, through the Dagmar and Václav Havel Foundation VIZE 97, the colorectal cancer screening in the Czech Republic on a long-term basis. Their contribution in this area has been awarded the honorary membership in the SGO.