Institute of Forensic Medicine

Address: Studničkova 4, 128 21, Prague 2

Head of Department: MUDr. Pavel Toupalík, Ph.D.
Email: pavel.toupalik(zavinac)lf1.cuni.cz
Tel.: 22496 8621

Secretary: Hana Iblová
Email: hana.iblova(at)lf1.cuni.cz
Tel.: 22496 8615
Fax.: 22491 8985

Email: soudni(at)lf1.cuni.cz

The institute's website on the VFN website: here

Deputy Head of Education: MUDr. Veronika Štufka
Email: veronika.stufka(zavináč)lf1.cuni.cz
Tel.: 22496 8611

Head physician: Leona Karásková, MD
Email: leona.karaskova@lf1.cuni.cz
Tel.: 22496 8610

Workplace characteristics

The Institute provides undergraduate education in forensic medicine for 4th year students of general medicine and dentistry at the 1st Faculty of Medicine of Charles University in Prague, including teaching foreign students, and participates in postgraduate studies in forensic medicine.

In the scientific research area, the Institute is focused on the development of immunohistochemical methods in the diagnosis of central nervous system injuries (especially diffuse axonal brain injury), on the detection of hypothermia, asphyxia, early phases of ischemic/hypoxic myocardial damage, detection of vital reaction to injury, and diagnostics of pathomorphological changes in people addicted to narcotic and psychotropic substances.