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doc. MUDr. Ladislav Kočan, PhD., FIPP   SK

Email:
ladislav.kocan@upjs.sk
Homepage:
https://www.upjs.sk/LF/zamestnanec/ladislav.kocan
Faculty:
LF UPJŠ - Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice Faculty of Medicine
Department:
KAIM - Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Medicine
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ORCID ID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4352-4501
Ladislav Kočan graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice in 2007 and earned his Ph.D. in 2011. He completed his board certification in Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care in 2013. Since 2014, he has been working at the East Slovak Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (VÚSCH) and simultaneously at EuroPainClinics in Košice. In 2017, he obtained a specialization in Pain Medicine and became the founder of the Pain Clinic at VÚSCH. In 2022, he was awarded the title of FIPP (Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice) by the World Institute of Pain (WIP), USA, and in 2024 he became a member of the FIPP Examination Board. He is a faculty member of the Interventional Pain Academy, where he leads hands-on training in ultrasound- and fluoroscopy-guided procedures at international workshops in Prague, Frankfurt, Essen, and Warsaw. Since 2025, he has been a board member of the Slovak Society for the Study and Treatment of Pain, and in the same year he completed his habilitation (Associate Professorship) at Masaryk University in Brno in Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care, and Pain Medicine. He is the author or co-author of over 100 scientific publications, which have been cited more than 260 times (232 in WoS/Scopus). He currently serves as Deputy Head for Teaching at the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care at VÚSCH in Košice.

Higher education and further qualification growth
Second degree of higher education:
The Faculty of Medicine at Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, 2007, general medicine
Third degree of higher education:
The Faculty of Medicine at Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, 2012, Clinical biochemistry
Associate professor:
Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, 2025, Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine and Pain Medicine

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Profile courses
Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine - general medicine, I.+II. degree
Basics of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, I.+II. degree
Ultrasound Musculoskeletal Anatomy, I.+II. degree
Selected publications

VASKOVA, Janka, Ladislav KOCAN, Ladislav VASKO and Pal PERJESI. Glutathione-Related Enzymes and Proteins: A Review. Molecules [online]. 2023, 28(3, Article 1447). ISSN 1420-3049. Available at: doi:10.3390/molecules28031447 Document Type: Review; IF = 4,600; median IF BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 3,700; Quartile by IF BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY Q2; Quartile by AIS BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY Q3 (data from 2022)

MLAKA, J., R. RAPCAN, M. BURIANEK, S. RAPCANOVA, M. GAJDOS, H. KOCANOVA, M. GRIGER, L. KOVALICOVA, J. VASKOVA and L. KOCAN *(corresponding author)*. Endoscopic discectomy as an effective treatment of a herniated intervertebral disc. Bratislava Medical Journal-Bratislavske Lekarske Listy [online]. 2020, 121(3), 199–205. ISSN 1336-0345. Available at: doi:10.4149/Bll\_2020\_030 Document Type: Article; IF = 1,278; median IF MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL – 2,375; Quartile by IF MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL Q3; Quartile by AIS MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL – SCIE Q4

KOCAN, Ladislav, Viktoria RAJTUKOVA, Maria RASIOVA, Hana KOCANOVA, Simona RAPCANOVA, Robert RAPCAN, Igor MARTULIAK, Radovan HUDAK, Dusan RYBAR, Janka VASKOVA and Marek HUDAK. Thermovision controlled lumbar sympathetic blockade in chronic limb-threatening ischemia treatment - pilot trial. Vasa-European Journal Of Vascular Medicine [online]. 2023, 52(2), 133–135. ISSN 1664-2872. Available at: doi:10.1024/0301-1526/a001053 Document Type: Letter; IF = 1,800; median IF PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE - 2,900; Quartile by IF PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE Q4; Quartile by AIS PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE Q4 (data from 2022)

KOCAN, Ladislav, Jozef FIRMENT, Ingrid PIRNIKOVA, Silvia Farkasova IANNACCONE, Dusan RYBAR, Juliana GNORIKOVA, Jan KORCEK, Hana KOCANOVA, Pavol TOEROEK, Simona RAPCANOVA and Janka VASKOVA. Full recovery of lung tissue after severe viral pneumonia H1N1: A case report with 10 years follow-up. Medicine [online]. 2023, 102(8). ISSN 1536-5964. Available at: doi:10.1097/Md.0000000000033052. Document Type: Article; IF = 1,600; median IF MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL – 2,700; Quartile by o IF MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL Q3; Quartile by AIS MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL Q3 (data from 2022)

KOCAN, Ladislav, Jozef FIRMENT, Ingrid PIRNIKOVA, Silvia Farkasova IANNACCONE, Dusan RYBAR, Juliana GNORIKOVA, Jan KORCEK, Hana KOCANOVA, Pavol TOEROEK, Simona RAPCANOVA and Janka VASKOVA. Full recovery of lung tissue after severe viral pneumonia H1N1: A case report with 10 years follow-up. Medicine [online]. 2023, 102(8). ISSN 1536-5964. Available at: doi:10.1097/Md.0000000000033052. Document Type: Article; IF = 1,600; median IF MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL – 2,700; Quartile by o IF MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL Q3; Quartile by AIS MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL Q3 (data from 2022)

Selected projects

Design and Implementation of Advanced Methods of Ventilatory Therapy and Diagnostics of Viral Pneumonias Including Covid-19 with the Possibility of Their Rapid Adoption”, project acronym: IPMVDCoV, project code in ITMS2014+: 313011ASX1. 2020–2023. Operational Programme Integrated Infrastructure

Research and Development of a System for Improving the Efficiency of Ventilation in Patients with COVID-19 or Other Non-infectious Lung Injury” project code ITMS2014+: 313011ATG9. 2021–2023, Operational Programme Integrated Infrastructure

Thermography-Guided Lumbar Sympathetic Blocks in Lower Limb Ischemic Disease” Grant of the Slovak Society for the Study and Treatment of Pain (SSŠLB), No.: 24-3055/069

Neuroinflammation and Oxidative Stress in Cardiac Surgery Trial, No.: 05/2025, Acronym: NeuOx-postSurg Trial, Grant funded by the Slovak Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Medicine (SSAIM)

Organisational activities
instructor - Pain Academy R-Clinic s.r.o., od 2023
lector - Certified Work Activity in Neurointerventional Pain Management - SZU, 2025

Additional information

Awards
Technology Transfer Award in Slovakia 2023 in the category Innovation, awarded by the National Technology Transfer Portal. Award for long-term contribution to the development of the Slovak Society for the Study and Treatment of Pain (SŠLB) in the fields of science, research, and education.
Projects
Projekt: Research and Development of a System for Improving the Ventilation of Patients with Covid19 or with other Non-Homogeneous Lung Damage, with code in ITMS2014+ 313011ATG9. Project Co-Financed by the Ministry of Education, Science of the Slovak Republic and the EU through the European Regional Development Fund under OP Integrated Infrastructure. 4/2021-5/2023. Principal investigator: Doc. MUDr. Pavol Török CSc. Project: Research and Development of a System for Improving the Ventilation of Patients with Covid19 or with other Non-Homogeneous Lung Damage, with code in ITMS2014+ 313011ATG9. Project: Slovak Medical Association and Slovak Society for the Study and Treatment of Pain Grant Project: Thermography-Guided Lumbar Sympathetic Blockades in Treating Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia , with code in 24-3055/069. 2024-2025. Project Co-Financed by Grant Agency of Slovak Society for Study and Treatment of Pain. Principal investigator: MUDr. Ladislav Kočan, PhD. FIPP
Interesting links
https://unibook.upjs.sk/sk/lekarska-fakulta/1164-autonomny-nervovy-system-v-klinickej-praxi.html https://unibook.upjs.sk/sk/lekarska-fakulta/1170-applications-of-the-autonomic-nervous-system-in-clinical-practice.html

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