Szófia Havas (born Szófia Horn, 2 November 1955,

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) is a Hungarian politician and doctor.

Biography

Havas graduated from the ELTE Miklós Radnóti school in Budapest in 1974, then in 1980, she graduated with a doctorate from

Semmelweis University Semmelweis University (Hungarian language, Hungarian: ''Semmelweis Egyetem'', ) is a research-led medical school in Budapest, Hungary, founded in 1769. With six faculties and a doctoral school it covers all aspects of medical and health sciences. ...

in their medical faculty, graduating ''

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''. In 1998, she became part of the Health Services Management department of the

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. She began her medical path at the Frigyes Korányi hospital, and in 1983, she was part the National Institute of Mental Health and worked both as a physician and as an assistant. Between 1984 and 1990, she worked at the Újpest Hospital auxiliary, and, between 1990 and 1996, at Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Hospital, and worked, as a lecturer, since 1999 as the Medical Director of Észak-Pesti Hospital. In 1977, she joined the

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(

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since 1993) as a member where, since 1995, she worked at the Department of Health as an executive and party branch in Budapest and as President since 1996. From 1995 until 2002, she was a counsellor of the Ministry of Welfare. In December 1994 and October 1998, she was part of the municipal elections as an MP candidate, and was, on 20 October 2002, elected a Municipal Assembly member and vice chairman of the health committee. She represented the

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, where she is also a member of the Health and Sport Committee. On 10 September 2007, Dr. Tibor Bakonyi become her successor MP, and he is a Health Committee member since 17 September 2007. She is married, and the mother of two girls. Her father, Géza Horn, was a film director, and her uncle,

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, was the former Prime Minister of Hungary. Sofia bears the surname of her stepfather. In 2010, she was not part of the

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; however, in the Hungarian local elections in 2010, the Hungarian Socialist Party was once again included in the Metropolitan Assembly.

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