Ambrus Fairy

* Rožňava, 22 July 1984 – / pharmacist, pharmaceutical historian ; ; He completed his primary and secondary education in his hometown, graduating from the Rožňava gymnasium in 2002. From 2002 to 2007, he was a student at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy in Brno, and obtained his pharmacist diploma in 2007. During his student years, between 2004 and 2006, he was the president of the Kazinczy Ferenc Student Club (KAFEDIK) in Brno. In 2007, he worked as a pharmacist at the Nona pharmacy in Rožňava for a year. Since 2008, he has been an assistant professor at the Institute of Applied Pharmacy of the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy in Brno. In 2007–2009, he pursued doctoral studies in the field of social pharmacy and in 2009, he was ordained a doctor of pharmacy and obtained the PhD degree. Since 2010, he has been a lecturer at the Department of Pharmacy Organization and Management, Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University in Bratislava (subjects: Introduction to Pharmacy, History of Pharmacy, Social Pharmacy). His research area is the history of old church-founded pharmacies and pharmacist training. He is a regular speaker at various scientific conferences. He is a member or board member of several professional and scientific societies – Czech Society of Pharmacy, Hungarian Society of Pharmacy, Hungarian Society of Pharmacy History, Czech Society of Science and Technology History, External Public Body of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Slovak Society of Pharmacy. President of the Department of Pharmacy History of the Hungarian Society of Pharmacy (since 2013). He also regularly gives educational lectures, in 2006–2008 he was the organizing secretary of the Brno branch of the Association of Hungarians in Bohemia and Moravia, and since 2008 he has been a member of the board. His studies have been published in Czech (Česká a slovenská farmacie, Praktické lékárenství, Časopis českých lékárníků), Slovak (Lekárnické listy, Farmaceutický obzor) and Hungarian (Gyógyszerézet) journals and conference proceedings. He is the co-author of several books: Vybrané aspekty lekárenskej szólótő, 2012, 60 rokov Farmaceutickej fakulty Univerzity Komenského v Bratislave, 2012, Provoz lékáren: Odborná a hospodářská informatika (university note), 2012.