Vlado Simko - SVU Executive Vice President

Vlado Simko, M.D. Professor of Clinical Medicine at State University New York, Downstate Medical Center at Brooklyn was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1931. He graduated Cum Laude from the Comenius University Medical School in Bratislava in 1956. After medical and research training and after obtaining boards in internal medicine and clinical chemistry he became research investigator and Head, Laboratory Department at the Research Institute for Human Nutrition in Bratislava. Here he earned a C.Sc. (Ph.D.) for research on metabolic effects of heated fat in food. Subsequently his work in this subject and on metabolic effect of physical exercise on lipid metabolism was published in major medical journals in Bratislava, Prague, Switzerland, Scandinavia, Germany, Hungary and the Soviet Union. These publication activities earned him an invitation to Cornell University in the United States where he became an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Nutrition in 1969. In addition to teaching the graduate students he participated in research on diets for man in space. In 1972 ???? 1974 he was a clinical fellow in gastroenterology at the Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, NY and then became an associate professor of medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Since 1982 Dr. Simko is the Chief, Section of Gastroenterology at the Veterans medical center in Brooklyn, NY. He actively joined several Czechoslovak exile organizations, publishing numerous socio-political essays in Slovak democratic exile periodical "Nase snahy" and in other journals.

Dr. Simko published over one hundred original full medical papers in various medical journals, one book chapter and over 250 medical abstracts, translations and letters to the editor. Over seventy socio-political articles were published in exile journals and over sixty popular reports in popular press on nutrition for the general readers. Dr Simko serves on the Board of the American Fund for Czechoslovak Relief and on a committee of the Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association for reconstruction of the Bohemian Hall in New York City. He is the past Vice President of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences and regularly organizes the biomedical symposia at the SVU World Congresses where he regularly reports on his research. Dr Simko was married to the late Mary T. Simko, M.D., an internist who he acquainted as a medical student. His late son Daniel S. Simko was a recognized American poet who also wrote exile poetry.