Péntek Márta (1965) a Hungarian Academy of Sciences doctor,[1] Professor, Health Economics Research Center (HECON), University Research and Innovation Center (EKIK), Obuda University (OE), Budapest,[2] Board Member, OU Doctoral School of Innovation Management.[3]
Márta Péntek medical doctor (Semmelweis University), specialist (rheumatology, physiotherapy).
PhD: Semmelweis University Faculty of Medicine in 2008.
Habilitation: habilitated at the University of Pécs in 2013.
Doctorate of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2022.[4]
Between 2009 and 2020, she was first an adjunct professor, then associate professor, and from 2015 professor at the Department of Health Economics at Corvinus University of Budapest.
Between 2015 - 2016 and 2018 - 2020 she was board member of the Doctoral School of Business and Management at Corvinus University of Budapest (BCE). From 2016 to 2017, she was board member of the Corvinus University of Budapest, Doctoral School of Economics and Business Informatics.
Between 2014 and 2024, under her supervision and co-supervision, 6 of her PhD students successfully defended their theses at the Doctoral School of Business and Management (BCE), in the specialisation of Health Care Management, 2 students at the Doctoral School of Semmelweis University and 1 student at the University of Amsterdam.[5] [6]
Her research interests include the measurement and valuation of health-related quality of life, disease burden studies:
- Measurement, individual and social evaluation of health gains
- Health-related quality of life in chronic diseases
- Quality of life aspects of the development, clinical trials and application of medical devices, health and social robots
- Validation of quality of life questionnaires
- Disease-burden studies in chronic diseases, quality of life of patient's family members in relation to care (informal care)
- Health-related decision-making, individual and social preferences
- Quality of life aspects of development, clinical trials and application of medical devices, health and social robots.
Under her leadership, the Hungarian version of quality of life questionnaires was developed and validated, and population norm values were established (ICECAP-A, ICECAP-O, CarerQol, EHEALS, PAM, MSK-HQ, PREM); [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] Hungarian utility value sets for Hungary were developed that can also be used for health-economic analyses (EQ-5D-5L, EQ-5D-3L, ICECAP-A, CarerQol).[18] [19] [20]
So far, she has been the leader and national coordinator of 7 international and 5 national successful research proposals.
Between 2018 and 2019, she was the head of the Higher Education Institution Excellence Program (FIKP): "Health care, social burden: need and evaluation of current and future innovations" research program.
She is currently the national leader of the ERA-NET (Horizon 2020) funded BUR-EB international research programme (http://www.burqol-rd.com/), but has previously been involved in the EU-funded BURQOL-RD research programme (http://www.burqol-rd.com/), which conducted quality of life and burden of disease research in the field of rare diseases. She is a sub-project leader of the research project "Development and evaluation of innovative and digital health technologies", awarded under the NRDI Thematic Excellence Programme.
2024 Elek Fényes Prize [21]
2023 Researcher of the Year, Obuda University
2021 Most Cited Researcher of the Year, Obuda University
2012 Lecturer of the Year (BCE, Health Economics Student Circle)
2016 Research Excellence Award (BCE)
Full elected member of the EuroQol Group international research group.[22]
President of the Health and Health Economics Section of the Hungarian Economic Association (HEA) since 2014 .[23]
Member of the IEEE.[24]
Member of the Hungarian Association of Rheumatologists.[25]
To date (July 2024), she has published more than 400 scientific publications with more than 2500 independent citations. She was a guest editor of The European Journal of Health Economics in 2019.[26] [27]
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