Research/art/teacher profile of a person
Name and surname:
prof. MUDr. Štefan Sivák, PhD.
Document type:
Research/art/teacher profile of a person
The name of the university:
Comenius University Bratislava
The seat of the university:
Šafárikovo námestie 6, 818 06 Bratislava

I. - Basic information

I.1 - Surname
Sivák
I.2 - Name
Štefan
I.3 - Degrees
prof., MD, PhD.
I.4 - Year of birth
1978
I.5 - Name of the workplace
Clinic of Neurology, Jessenius Faculty of Medicine in Martin, Comenius University in Bratislava
I.6 - Address of the workplace
Kollárova 2, 03659 Martin, Slovakia
I.7 - Position
Professor
I.8 - E-mail address
sivak2@uniba.sk
I.9 - Hyperlink to the entry of a person in the Register of university staff
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/3628
I.10 - Name of the study field in which a person works at the university
Neurology, Anesthesiology and resuscitation
I.11 - ORCID iD
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0348-3082

II. - Higher education and further qualification growth

II.1 - First degree of higher education
II.2 - Second degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Jessenius Faculty of Medicine in Martin, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia
II.b - Year
2002
II.c - Study field and programme
General medicine and Neurology
II.3 - Third degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Jessenius Faculty of Medicine in Martin, Comenius University in Bratislava
II.b - Year
2006
II.c - Study field and programme
Neurology
II.4 - Associate professor
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Jessenius Faculty of Medicine in Martin, Comenius University in Bratislava
II.b - Year
2016
II.c - Study field and programme
Neurology
II.5 - Professor
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Jessenius Faculty of Medicine in Martin, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia
II.b - Year
2024
II.c - Study field and programme
Neurology
II.6 - Doctor of Science (DrSc.)

III. - Current and previous employment

III.a - Occupation-position III.b - Institution III.c - Duration
resident physician Clinic of Neurology, University hospital Martin, Jessenius Faculty of Medicine in Martin, Comenius University in Bratislava 2002-2009
licensed neurologist Clinic of Neurology, University hospital Martin, Jessenius Faculty of Medicine in Martin, Comenius University in Bratislava 2009-present
lecturer Jessenius Faculty of Medicine in Martin, Comenius University in Bratislava 2007-2016
Associate Professor Jessenius Faculty of Medicine in Martin, Comenius University in Bratislava 2016-2022
emergency medical service physician Falck záchranná a.s. 2010-2019
forensic expert in the field of Healthcare and Pharmacy, Neurology specialty Ministry of Justice, Slovak Republic 2018-present
Professor Jessenius Faculty of Medicine in Martin, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia 2022 - present

IV. - Development of pedagogical, professional, language, digital and other skills

IV.a - Activity description, course name, other IV.b - Name of the institution IV.c - Year
Specialty training in neurology Slovak Medical University in Bratislava, Slovakia 2009
fMRI Visiting Fellowship Program MGH/MIT/HMS Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2014
Connectivity Course: Structural and Functional Brain Connectivity via MRI and fMRI MGH/MIT/HMS Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2015

V. - Overview of activities within the teaching career at the university

V.1 - Overview of the profile courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes
V.1.a - Name of the profile course V.1.b - Study programme V.1.c - Degree V.1.d - Field of study
anesthesiology and resuscitation 1 anesthesiology and resuscitation III. General medicine
anesthesiology and resuscitation 2 anesthesiology and resuscitation III. Nursing
V.2 - Overview of the responsibility for the delivery, development and quality assurance of the study programme or its part at the university in the current academic year
V.2.a - Name of the study programme V.2.b - Degree V.2.c - Field of study
Anesthesiology and resuscitation III. General medicine
V.3 - Overview of the responsibility for the development and quality of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure in the current academic year
V.3.a - Name of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure V.3.b - Study field to which it is assigned
neurology General medicine
V.4 - Overview of supervised final theses
V.4.1 - Number of currently supervised theses
V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)
0
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
1
V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)
2
V.4.2 - Number of defended theses
V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)
0
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
27
V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)
1
V.5 - Overview of other courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes
V.5.a - Name of the course V.5.b - Study programme V.5.c - Degree V.5.d - Field of study
Diploma thesis seminar 1,2,3 General medicine I.+II. General medicine

VI. - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1 - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs and the corresponding citations
VI.1.1 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
171
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
58
VI.1.2 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
39
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
23
VI.1.3 - Number of citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
567
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
300
VI.1.4 - Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
478
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
291
VI.1.5 - Number of invited lectures at the international, national level
VI.1.a - Overall
10
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
4
VI.2 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs
1

Kurča, Egon - Sivák, Štefan - Kučera, Pavol. Impaired cognitive functions in mild traumatic brain injury patients with normal and pathologic magnetic resonance imaging In: Neuroradiology. - Vol. 48, No. 9 (2006), s. 661-669. - ISSN 0028-3940 IF 2006=1,625; Quartil Q (2006, sjr ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging) = Q1; Citácie/Citations (Scopus, 2025) = 98

2

Sivák, Štefan - Bittšanský, Michal - Kurča, Egon - Turčanová Koprušáková, Monika - Grofik, Milan - Nosáľ, Vladimír - Poláček, Hubert - Dobrota, Dušan: Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy in patients with early stages of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, In: Neuroradiology. - Roč. 52, č. 12 (2010), s. 1079-1085. IF 2010 = 2,870; Quartil Q (2010, sjr, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging; Neurology) = Q1; Citácie/ Citations (Scopus, 2025) = 36

3

Sivák, Štefan - Bittšanský, Michal - Grossmann, Ján - Nosáľ, Vladimír - Kantorová, Ema - Siváková, Jana - Demková, A. - Hnilicová, Petra -Dobrota, Dušan - Kurča, Egon: Clinical correlations of proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy findings in acute phase after mild traumatic brain injury, In: Brain Injury. - Roč. 28, č. 3 (2014), s. 341-346. IF 2014 = 1,808; Quartil Q (2014, sjr, Neurology (Clinical)) = Q2; Citácie/ Citations (Scopus, 2025) = 29

4

Sivák, Štefan - Kurča, Egon - Hladká, Mária - Zeleňák, Kamil - Turčanová Koprušáková, Monika - Michalík, Jozef: Early and delayed auditory oddball ERPs and brain MRI in patients with MTBI, In: Brain Injury. - Roč. 22, č. 2 (2008), s. 193-197. - ISSN 0269-9052; IF 2008 = 1,116; Quartil Q (2008, sjr, Neurology (Clinical)) = Q2; Citácie/ Citations (Scopus, 2025) = 21

5

Čierny, Daniel - Michalík, Jozef - Škereňová, Mária - Kantorová, Ema - Sivák, Štefan - Javor, Juraj - Kurča, Egon - Dobrota, Dušan - Lehotský, Ján: ApaI, BsmI and TaqI VDR gene polymorphisms in association with multiple sclerosis in Slovaks In: Neurological Research. - Roč. 38, č. 8 (2016), s. 678-684. IF (JCR) 2016=1,376; Quartil Q (2016, sjr, Neurology (Clinical)) = Q2; Citácie/ Citations (Scopus, 2025) = 27

VI.3 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs over the last six years
1

Babálová, Lucia, Grendár, Marián, Kurča, Egon, Sivák, Štefan, Kantorová, Ema, Mikulová, Katarína, Šťastný, Pavel, Faško, Pavel, Szabóová, Kristína, Kubatka, Peter, Nosáľ, Slavomír, Mikulík, Robert, Nosáľ, Vladimír. Forecasting extremely high ischemic stroke incidence using meteorological time serie [elektronický dokument]. DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0310018. SIGN-UKO LJ466/24 In: PLoS One. San Francisco: Public Library of Science, 2024, Roč. 19, č. 9, art. no. e0310018, s. [1-26] [online]. ISSN (online) 1932-6203.IF 2023 = 2,9; Quartil Q (JIF, 2023, Multidisciplinary sciences) = Q1

2

Nosáľ, Vladimír - Petrovičová, Andrea - Škorňová, Ingrid - Bolek, Tomáš - Dluhá, Jana - Stančiaková, Lucia - Sivák, Štefan - Babálová, Lucia - Hajaš, Gabriel - Staško, Ján - Kubisz, Peter - Kurča, Egon - Samoš, Matej - Mokáň, Marián. Plasma levels of direct oral anticoagulants in atrial fibrillation patients at the time of embolic stroke: a pilot prospective multicenter study. European journal of clinical pharmacology – Heidelberg (Nemecko) : Springer Nature. Springer International Publishing AG. – ISSN 0031-6970 – Roč. 78, č. 4 (2022), s. 557-564. IF 2022 = 2.9; Quartil Q (JIF, 2022, Pharmacology & pharmacy) = Q3; Citácie/Citations = 7

3

Bardon, Jan, Kurčová, Sandra, Chudáčková, Monika, Otruba, Pavel, Krahulik, David, Nevrly, Martin, Kaňovský, Petr, Zapletalová, Jana, Valosek, Jan, Hluštík, Petr, Vastik, Miroslav, Večerková, Markéta, Hvizdošová, Lenka, Menšíková, Kateřina, Kurča, Egon, Sivák, Štefan. Deep brain stimulation electrode position impact on parkinsonian non-motor symptoms. DOI 10.5507/bp.2020.034. In: Biomedical papers. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2022, Roč. 166, č. 1, s. 57-62. IF 2022 = 0,9; Quartil Q (JIF, 2022, Medicine, research & experimental) = Q4, Citácie/Citations = 2

4

Ruzinak Robert - Bittsansky Michal - Martinikova Martina - Nosal Vladimir - Kantorova Ema - Ballova Jana - Turcanova Koprusakova Monika - Hnilicova Petra - Grendar Marian - Dusenka Robert - Kolarovszki Branislav - Zelenak Kamil - Kurca Egon - Sivak Stefan. Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy changes in the brainstem in patients after mild traumatic brain injury with loss of consciousness. In: Biomedical papers. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2022 Mar;166(1):84-90 IF 2022 = 0,9; Quartil Q (JIF, 2022, Medicine, research & experimental) = Q4

5

Martiníková, Martina-Ružinák, Róbert - Hnilicová, Petra - Bittšanský, Michal-Grendár, Marián-Babálová, Lucia - Skáčik, Pavol - Kantorová, Ema - Nosáľ, Vladimír - Turčanová Koprušáková, Monika - Sivák, Jozef - Siváková, Jana - Biringerová, Zuzana - Kolarovszki, Branislav - Zeleňák, Kamil - Kurča, Egon - Sivák, Štefan. Safety and efficacy of simple training protocol in patients after mild traumatic brain injury. In: Biomedical papers. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, Roč. 168, č. 4 (2024). IF 2023 = 0,7; Quartil Q (JIF, 2023, Medicine, research & experimental) = Q4

VI.4 - The most significant citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
1

Kurča, Egon - Sivák, Štefan - Kučera, Pavol: Impaired cognitive functions in mild traumatic brain injury patients with normal and pathologic magnetic resonance imaging In: Neuroradiology. - Vol. 48, No. 9 (2006), s. 661-669. - ISSN 0028-3940 IF (JCR) 2006=1,625; Kvartil Q: scimago-sjr -- Q1 [Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging] -- 2006; Ohlasy/Citations (96) Cited in: [o1] 2010 Vagnozzi, R. - Signoretti, S. - Cristofori, L. - Alessandrini, F. - Floris, R. - Isgro, E. - Ria, A. - Marziale, S. - Zoccatelli, G. - Tavazzi, B. - Del Bolgia, F. - Sorge, R. - Broglio, S.P. - McIntosh, T.K. - Lazzarino, G.: Brain,vol. 133, Part 11, 2010, s. 3232-3242 

2

Kurča, Egon - Sivák, Štefan - Kučera, Pavol: Impaired cognitive functions in mild traumatic brain injury patients with normal and pathologic magnetic resonance imaging In: Neuroradiology. - Vol. 48, No. 9 (2006), s. 661-669. - ISSN 0028-3940 IF (JCR) 2006=1,625; Kvartil Q: scimago-sjr -- Q1 [Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging] -- 2006; Ohlasy/Citations (96) Cited in: [o1] 2007 Metting, Z. - Rödiger, L. A. - De Keyser, J. - van der Naalt, J.: Structural and functional ... In: Lancet Neurology, vol. 6, no. 8, 2007, s. 699-710 

3

Kurča, Egon - Sivák, Štefan - Kučera, Pavol: Impaired cognitive functions in mild traumatic brain injury patients with normal and pathologic magnetic resonance imaging In: Neuroradiology. - Vol. 48, No. 9 (2006), s. 661-669. - ISSN 0028-3940 IF (JCR) 2006=1,625; Kvartil Q: scimago-sjr -- Q1 [Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging] -- 2006; Ohlasy/Citations (96) Cited in: [o1] 2019 Ashina, H. - Porreca, F. - Anderson, T. - Amin, F. M. - Ashina, M. - Schytz, H. W. - Dodick, D. W.: Nature Reviews Neurology, roč. 15, č. 10, 2019, s. 607-617 

4

Sivák, Štefan - Bittšanský, Michal - Kurča, Egon - Turčanová Koprušáková, Monika - Grofik, Milan - Nosáľ, Vladimír - Poláček, Hubert - Dobrota, Dušan: Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy in patients with early stages of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis = Magnetic resonance spectroscopy early stages of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis In: Neuroradiology. - Roč. 52, č. 12 (2010), s. 1079-1085. - ISSN 0028-3940, IF (JCR) 2010=2,870; Kvartil Q: scimago-sjr -- Q1 [Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging; Neurology] -- 2010; Ohlasy/Citations (34) Cited in: [o1] 2013 Foerster, B. R. - Welsh, R. C. - Feldman, E. L.: Nature Reviews Neurology, roč. 9, č. 9, 2013, s. 513-524 

5

Sivák, Štefan - Bittšanský, Michal - Kurča, Egon - Turčanová Koprušáková, Monika - Grofik, Milan - Nosáľ, Vladimír - Poláček, Hubert - Dobrota, Dušan: Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy in patients with early stages of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis = Magnetic resonance spectroscopy early stages of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis In: Neuroradiology. - Roč. 52, č. 12 (2010), s. 1079-1085. - ISSN 0028-3940, IF (JCR) 2010=2,870; Kvartil Q: scimago-sjr -- Q1 [Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging; Neurology] -- 2010; Ohlasy/Citations (34) Cited in: [o1] 2014 Van Laere, K. - Vanhee, A. - Verschueren, J. - Coster, L. D. - Driesen, A. - Dupont, P. - Robberecht, W. - Damme, P. V.: JAMA Neurology, roč. 71, č. 5, 2014, s. 553-561 

VI.5 - Participation in conducting (leading) the most important research projects or art projects over the last six years
1

APVV-22-0122 - "Advanced diagnostics of neurodegenerative disorders using magnetic resonance techniques and artificial intelligence.“ (investigator), Duration of the project: 2023-2027

2

APVV-23-0368 - "Mitochondrial transplantation, an inovative strategy for the therapy of Alzheimer's disease" (investigator), Duration of the project: 2024-2027

3

VEGA 1/0092/22 - „Application of the above-standard radiological, proteomic, and genetic analyzes in the differential diagnostics of progressive forms of multiple sclerosis.“ Duration of the project: 2022-2025

4

VEGA 1/0029/24 - Title of the project: „Improving the effectiveness of antithrombotic therapy using a mini-invasive sampling technique.“ Duration of the project: 2024-2027

VII. - Overview of organizational experience related to higher education and research/artistic/other activities

VII.a - Activity, position VII.b - Name of the institution, board VII.c - Duration
First Vice-Dean and Vice-Dean for Research, Science Development and Postgraduate PhD. Study Jessenius Faculty of Medicine in Martin, Comenius University in Bratislava 2022-present
Member of the editorial board Česká a slovenská neurologie a neurochirurgie - journal 2021-present
Member of the editorial board Neurológia pre prax - journal 2015-present
Member of the Scientific panel Neurotraumatology European Academy of Neurology 2015-present
Member of the Scientific panel Neuro-ophthalmology and -otology European Academy of Neurology 2015-present

VIII. - Overview of international mobilities and visits oriented on education and research/artistic/other activities in the given field of study

IX. - Other relevant facts

Date of last update
2025-02-28