Emil Bognar

* Rózsahegy, March 26, 1907 – † Budapest, September 30, 1980 / physician, pulmonologist ; ; He obtained his medical degree in Budapest at the Faculty of Medicine of the Pázmány Péter University in 1934. He qualified as a radiologist in 1940 and as a pulmonologist in 1943. As a physician, he worked in the medical laboratory of the National Institute of Social Policy, and then for a year after graduating, in the Pathology Institute of the University of Budapest. From 1935, he was an assistant physician in the X-ray laboratory and the pulmonary department at the Újpest Hospital. In 1944, he took over the management of the TB Care Medical School on Baross Street in the 4th district until its reorganization (until 1946). From the Pediatric Pulmonary Care Center established by Jenő Gárdi (which had a doctor by then), when Greater Budapest was established, in 1949, he established the Northern School Specialist Clinic, the country's first school children's clinic, of which he was director until 1968 and chief radiologist until 1977. He dealt with pulmonary medicine and school health, and achieved particularly significant results in the early detection of childhood tuberculosis. He was among the first in Hungary to conduct kindergarten and school TB screening on a large sample of children, and initiated the first so-called BCG campaigns among kindergarten and school children in Budapest. Together with József Melly and József Pfeiffer, he played a leading role in the establishment of the Hungarian school medical network (in the 1960s). He was president of the József Fodor School Health Association and the Medical Health Workers' Professional Group. He has published 60 scientific publications and several health education articles. ; ; His main works: ; The infectiousness of chronic forms of pulmonary tuberculosis (Rudolffal Dévényi, In: The fight against tuberculosis), 1943, ; School specialist clinics. The care of tuberculosis and other patients (In: The school doctor's pocket book), 1959.