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Biography
Miklós Bély qualified as a doctor of medicine (MD) at Semmelweis Medical University (SOTE), Budapest in 1972. He passed the Board Examination in Anatomic Pathology at the Postgraduate Medical School (HIETE), Budapest in 1976 and obtained a PhD from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1981. In 1994 the Semmelweis Medical University acknowledged him as Dr.med.habil. and in 2000 promoted him to Professor of Pathology. He obtained the degree of DSc from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1999.
Dr. Bély spent one year (1975-76) as a General Pathologist in the Pathology Laboratory of the Majella Ziekenhuis in Bussum, the Netherlands.
Since 1972 he has been working in the Department of Pathology of the National Institute of Rheumatology (since 1993 as Chairman). In 2001 the hospital of this institute has regained its former name, Hospital of the Order of the Brothers of Saint John of God.
Dr. Bély has been interested in autoimmune disorders (organ involvement by autoimmune diseases, complications and disease modifying effects of associated conditions, etc.). He has regularly attended scientific congresses and meetings since 1973, occasionally as a guest lecturer, throughout Europe as well as in Japan, China and the United States. He gave close to 700 lectures in three languages and has been a visiting professor of the German and English courses at Semmelweis Medical University. He has been an author of more than 400 publications and of 39 chapters in Hungarian and international journals and monographs, resp. He is a member or board member of numerous scientific societies (Society of Hungarian Pathologists, Hungarian Association of Rheumatologists, Committee of Pathology of European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR), International Society for Fluoride Research, etc).