LECTURE IN HONOUR OF BEDŘICH NEUMANN

IRENA ŠUBRTOVÁ

Dr. Irena Šubrtová was born on 28 June 1927 in a small village south of Pilsen, into the family of an elementary school teacher.

She went to school in Podbořany and completed higher secondary education at the Masaryk State Real Gymnasium (grammar school) in Pilsen in 1946. After receiving her higher secondary school-leaving certificate she started studying at the newly founded School of Medicine in Pilsen. She studied general medicine until 1950, after which she changed to a newly specialised field – dental medicine, in which she graduated on 9 July 1952.

She then received her mandatory assignment to work at the Regional Institute of National Health, in the orthodontic department of the Dental Clinic in Pilsen, working until 1956 as an intern under Dr. (later professor) František Dibelka and, after his departure, Assoc. Professor Zdeněk Janský. In 1959 she became a fully qualified doctor. In 1960 she started working in the same department with her later husband, Dr. Ivan Šubrt – this was the start of a period of busy practical collaboration and fruitful scientific work.

Dr. Šubrtová passed her 1st and 2nd attestation in 1956 and 1968 respectively, authored 36 original works, 2 university textbooks (1 in English), and co-authored 3 university textbooks. Together with her husband she worked on a number of research projects, defended two departmental studies and is the author of the Composite Orthodontic Brackets patent. She lectured on orthodontics to Czech and foreign dentistry students. The political changes in our country made it possible for her to start running, in 1993, a non-state owned medical facility providing orthodontic care.

All this is the result of enormous dedication to orthodontics, which has always been her beloved and lifelong hobby.