Our faculty hosts important specialists who participate in international science projects or teaching, so-called visiting professors. These specialists cover a wide range of medical specialisations, from clinical and theoretical fields all the way to ethics and occupational therapy. Visiting professors include important scholars and scientists from prestigious institutions all over the world. At the moment, around twenty specialists from prestigious international institutions hold the title ‘visiting professor of the 1^st Faculty of Medicine of the Charles University’.

A list of visiting professors:

Doc. RNDr. Ján Bednár, Ph.D. Home institution: Institute for Advanced Biosciences Research center UGA Unit of the 1st Faculty of Medicine: Institute of Anatomy, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University	Prof. Anthony J. Bleyer, M.D. Home institution: Nephrology Section, Wake Forest School of Medicine Unit of the 1st Faculty of Medicine: Institute of Inherited Metabolic Disorders
Prof. Sergio Bernardini, MD, Ph.D. Home institution: Professor in Clinical Biochemistry and Clinical Molecular Biology; Head Physician of the Clinical Biochemistry and Laboratory Emergency Units, University of Tor Vergata, Rome Unit of the 1st Faculty of Medicine: Istitute of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Diagnostics	Prof. Markus Wolfgang Büchler, Dr. Med. Home institution: Department of Surgery, Heidelberg University Unit of the 1st Faculty of Medicine: First Department of Surgery – Department of Abdominal, Thoracic Surgery and Traumatology
Prof. Dr. Jonathan Duke-Cohan Home institution: Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA Unit of the 1st Faculty of Medicine: Institute of Biochemistry and Experimental Oncology	Prof. Dr. Med. Jiří Dvořák Home institution:Neurology, Spine Unit, Schulthess Klinik, Zurych Unit of the 1st Faculty of Medicine: The Orthopaedic Clinic of the First Faculty od Medicine and Bulovka Hospital
Prof. Perry Mark Elliot Home institution: Professor of Cardiology University College London Unit of the 1st Faculty of Medicine: 2nd Department of Internal Cardiovascular Medicine	Prof. George Grunberger, MD, FACP, FACE Home institution: Clinical Professor, Internal Medicine and Molecular Medicine & Genetics, Wayne State University School of Medicine Unit of the 1st Faculty of Medicine: Third Department of Medicine – Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism
Prof. Heiko Herwald, PhD. Home institution: Division of Infection Medicine, Biomedical Center, Lund University, Sweden Unit of the 1st Faculty of Medicine: Department of Infectious Diseases, First Faculty of Medicine and Military University Hospital Prague
Prof. Vladimír Krátký, BSc., MD, FRCSC, DABO Home institution:Department of Ophthalmology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario Unit of the 1st Faculty of Medicine: Department of Ophthalmology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and Military University	Prof. Dr. med. Hans-George Kräusslich Home institution: Director, Department for Infectious Diseases and Virology, Heidelberg University Unit of the 1st Faculty of Medicine: Institute of Biochemistry and Experimental Oncology
MUDr. habil. Ivan Matia, Ph.D. Home institution: Director, Department for Infectious Diseases and Virology, Heidelberg University Unit of the 1st Faculty of Medicine: First Department of Surgery – Department of Abdominal, Thoracic Surgery and Traumatology	C. S. Raman, Ph.D. Home institution:Associate Professor with tenure, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore Unit of the 1st Faculty of Medicine: Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine; BIOCEV
Prof. Stefan Rammelt, Dr. med., PhD Home institution: Foot & Ankle Section, University Centre of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden Unit of the 1st Faculty of Medicine: Department of Orthopedics, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and Military University Hospital, Prague Institute of Anatomy, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University	Prof. Abigail Saffron Tucker Home institution: King´s College London Unit of the 1st Faculty of Medicine: Institute of Anatomy, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University
Prof. Claudio Tiribelli, MD, PhD. Home institution: Professor of Gastroenterology, University of Trieste Director of the Liver Research Center of Trieste Unit of the 1st Faculty of Medicine: Institute of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Diagnostics	Prof. Marcela Votruba Home institution:School of Optometry & Vision Sciences, University of Cardiff Unit of the 1st Faculty of Medicine: Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine

A list of visiting scientists:

Dr. Elena Vianello, Ph.D. Home institution: Assistant Professor in Clinical Pathology – University Milano, Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health Unit of the 1st Faculty of Medicine: Institute of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Diagnostics