{"id":13031,"date":"2022-01-12T08:44:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T08:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pmed.hu\/pmedorvosok\/dr-vardi-katalin\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T08:55:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T08:55:47","slug":"dr-vardi-katalin","status":"publish","type":"pmedorvosok","link":"https:\/\/pmed.hu\/en\/pmedorvosok\/dr-vardi-katalin\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Katalin V\u00e1rdi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“I am a companion and interpreter on the path of illness \u2014 everything else happens within our patients.”<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I was born into a family of doctors. My mother is a pediatrician, and my father \u2014 who could not have imagined any other career for me \u2014 was an obstetrician-gynecologist. At the time, medicine didn’t particularly appeal to me; I wanted to be an actress. But I had to apply to medical school, and I got in. By my third year, when I was finally able to work with real patients, my entire relationship with medicine transformed. I discovered the meaning of studying, and I found my wings. There are two ways a person can have a positive impact on others: through art \u2014 someone goes to the theatre, sees a wonderful play, and their life is changed for a brief moment \u2014 or through the kind of opportunity I was given, where my vocation allows me to do something that genuinely changes and improves people’s lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I began working in the intensive care unit of a clinic in 1990, I chose somnology as my area of focus \u2014 despite strong resistance within the Hungarian medical community at the time. Only Professor Gy\u00f6rgy B\u00f6sz\u00f6rm\u00e9nyi Nagy saw potential in the field. Later, at the Osler Chest Unit of the Churchill Hospital at the University of Oxford, I had the privilege of working under the guidance of John Stradling, an outstanding pulmonologist, somnologist, and physiologist. It was a true centre of excellence: specialists from different fields, generations, and perspectives came together from across the world and worked as a team. It was there that I learned to think in an entirely different way than I had been used to in Hungary. Oxford was where I first encountered an oncology team, where I learned interdisciplinary thinking, and where the democratic, open, and non-hierarchical atmosphere of the entire team made a lasting impression on me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Together with Professor B\u00f6sz\u00f6rm\u00e9nyi, J\u00e1nos Juh\u00e1sz, our neurologist colleagues Professors K\u00f6ves and Hal\u00e1sz, and Chief Physician Zolt\u00e1n Szak\u00e1cs, we were pioneers \u2014 I was among the first in Hungary to introduce the diagnosis and treatment of sleep-disordered breathing, combining sleep medicine with non-invasive ventilation. I am also proud of the Sing-Lung method, developed together with conductor Gy\u00f6rgy Phillip, which incorporates singing into respiratory rehabilitation \u2014 providing patients not only with positive outcomes but with a genuine artistic experience, while also fostering a sense of community and reducing breathlessness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A significant part of my work involves patients with chronic illness \u2014 often those in the final stages of COPD or cancer. I frequently accompany them on that final journey. I believe that on every path of illness, I am a companion and an interpreter. Everything else happens within our patients. What comes from medical science must be translated \u2014 and I believe that is my greatest task,” says Dr. Katalin V\u00e1rdi Visy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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