Education
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Institutions: |
Semmelweis University, VIKOTE |
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Date: from – to |
2025- CBT psychotherapy fellowship programme |
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Semmelweis University, Health Services Management Training Centre |
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Date: from – to |
2021-2023 healthcare manager MSc |
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Semmelweis University, Institute of Behavioural Sciences, PhD studies |
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Date: from – to |
2015-2021 |
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German Paediatric Pain Centre, Datteln, Germany |
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Date: from – to |
2018-2019 pain therapist fellowship |
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Institutions: |
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Date: from – to |
2007-2012 paediatric fellowship, 2012-2014 paediatric gastroenterology fellowship |
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Institutions: |
Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary; Julius-Maximillians University, Würzburg, Germany |
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Date: from – to |
2001-2007 graduate medical studies |
Current position
- assistant lecturer, Head of the the Pain Management Clinic for Young Adults, co-leader of the Pain and Psychosocial Stress Research Group (Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Semmelweis University, Budapest)
- medical director and Head of the Paediatric Pain Centre (Bethesda Children’s Hospital, Budapest)
Language skills
German, English, Serb
Specific experience
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Country |
Date: from – to |
Name and brief description of the project |
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USA |
Aug 2025 |
Visiting Research Scholar in Prof. Jennifer Rabbits Lab at Stanford University |
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USA |
Jun 2025 |
Clinical visitor at Mayo Family Pediatric Pain Rehabilitation Center, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard University |
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Canada |
2023 |
Serving on SPC for International Symposium on Ped. Pain 2023 |
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Germany |
March 2021 |
Psychosomatic Basic Care Course (Mario Scheib) |
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2017-2019 |
ESPGHAN Mentoring Programme, Mentor: Nikhil Thapar, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK |
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London, UK |
September 2017 |
ESPGHAN Paediatric GI Motility Hands-On Training Course |
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Holland |
April 2017 |
ESPGHAN International Exchange Award, visiting Prof. Marc Benninga in AMC Emma Children’s Hospital |
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Hungary |
April 2016 |
ESGPHAN Hepatology Summer School |
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Cambridge, UK |
July 2015 |
ESPGHAN Nutrition Summer School |
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Portugal |
Sept 2014 |
ESPGHAN Gastroenterology Summer School |
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Germany |
Febr 2010 |
German Paediatric Pain Centre, Datteln, Germany |
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Hungary |
2007 |
Balint group leader training |
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Hungary |
2007-2012 |
Family and couple therapy by the Family Services League Foundation |
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Hungary |
2005-2008 |
Family- and couple therapy studies and exam |
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Hungary |
2002-2008 |
Humania Contemporary Occupational Socalization Group, teaching communication-, stress management and social skills for medical students |
Professional experience record
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Date: from – to |
2018-2019 |
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Location |
Datteln, Germany |
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Company |
German Paediatric Pain Centre and Department of Children’s Pain Therapy and Paediatric Palliative Care, Children’s and Adolescents’ Hospital, Datteln, Witten/Herdecke University, Faculty of Health, School of Medicine, Germany |
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Position |
Pain medicine fellow |
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Description |
In- and out-patient treatment of paediatric chronic pain disorders |
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Date: from – to |
2007- |
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Location |
Budapest, Hungary |
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Company |
Bethesda Children’s Hospital |
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Position |
Paediatrician (2012), Paediatric gastroenterologist (2014) |
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Description |
2013– Head of the Paediatric Pain Centre, 2024- medical director |
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Date: from – to |
2022- |
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Location |
Budapest, Hungary |
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Company |
Semmelweis University Institute of Behavioural Sciences |
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Position |
senior lecturer, consultant |
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Description |
2024- Head of the the Pain Management Clinic for Young Adults |
Memberships of professional bodies:
Selye János Hungarian Society for the Study of Behaviour and Behavioural Medicine 2025-
Hungarian Headache Society 2023-
International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), Pain in Childhood SIG 2016-
German Pain Society, Pain in Childhood Workgroup 2019-
Hungarian Pain Society 2015-
European Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) 2014-
ESPGHAN Motility Working Group 2020–
Hungarian Association of Paediatric Gastroenterology 2012-
Hungarian Paediatric Association 2007-
Hungarian Family Therapy Association 2006-
Hungarian Michael Balint Psychosomatic Association 2006- (2007-2012 secretary)
Important publications
Major J et al. A two-week inpatient programme with a booster improved long-term management of severe chronic paediatric pain. J Child Heal Care. 2017;21:171–180.
Charbit-Henrion F, Parlato M, Hanein S, Duclaux-Loras R, Nowak J, Begue B, Major J et al. Diagnostic yield of next-generation sequencing in very early-onset inflammatory bowel diseases: A multicentre study. J Crohn’s Colitis.2018;12:1104–12.
Major J, Ádám S. Self-reported specific learning disorders and risk factors among Hungarian adolescents with functional abdominal pain disorders: a cross sectional study. BMC Pediatr. 2020;20(1):281.
Forgács-Kristóf K, Major J, Ádám S. Diagnostic and treatment recommendations from international guidelines for chronic low back pain. Orv Hetil. 2021;162:1951–61.
Claus BB, Stahlschmidt L, Dunford E, Major J et al. Intensive interdisciplinary pain treatment for children and adolescents with chronic noncancer pain: a preregistered systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis. Pain 2022; 163: 2281–2301.
Forgács-Kristóf K, Ádám S, Vargay A, Major J. Novel motivational interviewing-based intervention improves engagement in physical activity and readiness to change among adolescents with chronic pain. Health Expectations. 20244;27:e14031.
Major J, Adrienn Vargay, Ádám S. Epidemiology of Severe Chronic Pain Among Hungarian Adolescents: A Cross-Sectional Study. Health Science Reports. 2025; 8:e71439
Sujan AC, Major J, Groenewald CB, Rabbitts JA. National Medical Expenditures Associated With Pediatric Disorders of Gut–Brain Interaction in the United States. Neurogastroenterol Motil. 2026; 38: 1–7.
Awards:
2013 Pethényi Géza III. Award for the best paediatric publication of the year (Hungarian Paediatric Association)
2013 Henri Nestlé III. Award for the best lecture of the Annual Conference of the Hungarian Association of Paediatric Gastroenterology