Irena Belohorská

Irena Belohorská (born 13 March 1948 in Piešťany) is a Slovak politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Ludova strana - Hnutie za demokraticke Slovensko from 2004 to 2009.

She sits on its Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, and is a substitute for the Committee on Foreign Affairs and a member of the Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America.

Education

 * 1976: Certificate of postgraduate study, grade one, in gynaecology and obstetrics
 * 1982: Certificate of postgraduate study in clinical oncology
 * 1992: European School of Oncology

Career

 * 1973-1976: Doctor's assistant
 * 1977-1983: National Oncological Institute
 * 1983-1986: Expert doctor, Tunis
 * 1986-2002: Head doctor of the Preventive Centre at the National Oncological Institute
 * 1992-1993: Head of a faculty hospital
 * 1993: Head of the Office of the Ministry of Defence
 * 1993: State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
 * 1993-1994: Minister of Health
 * 1993: Member of HZDS (Movement for a Democratic Slovakia)
 * 1996: Chairwoman of a town organisation of HZDS
 * 1999: Member of the European Democrat Group at the Council of Europe
 * 1992: Member of the Federal Assembly of the Czechoslovak Federative Republic
 * 1994-2004: Member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic
 * 1994-1998: Vice-Chairwoman of the Foreign Affairs Committee
 * 1994-1998: Vice-Chairwoman of the Committee for European Integration
 * 2002-2004: Vice-Chairwoman of the Human Rights Committee
 * 1994-2004: Member of the Permanent Delegation of the National Council of the Slovak Republic to the Council of Europe
 * 1994-2002: Member of the Delegation to the Western European Union
 * 1994-2002: Member of the Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly
 * 1997-1999: Chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Health of the Council of Europe
 * 2003: Chairwoman of the Social, Health and Family Affairs Committee of the Council of Europe

Decorations

 * 1994: Awarded the decoration 'Rad A Hlinku I stupňa' (Order of Andrej Hlinka, First Class) in