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