Nephrology and Doctors Honoris Causa at P. J. Safárik University in Kosice in the years 1993-2006 (Slovak Republic).

The authors present a brief history of the activities of 7 important and well-known foreign nephrologists in Kosice and in the region of Eastern Slovakia who were awarded the honorary title Doctor Honoris Causa by P. J. Safárik University in Kosice. The above-mentioned professors presented their papers as guest professors to the students of the Medical Faculty of P. J. Safárik University and in meetings of medical societies and at many symposia and congresses with international participation in the region of Eastern Slovakia. All of the awarded nephrologists have visited the Faculty Hospital of L. Pasteur, the Fourth Internal Clinic and the Nephrological Clinic. During their stays, they stimulated the thinking of researchers in other metabolic studies within clinical nephrology and toxicology. In addition they contributed to the establishment in 1997 of the Nephrological Clinic of the Medical Faculty of P. J. Safárik University and the Faculty Hospital of L. Pasteur, the first one of its kind in the Slovak Republic.