About us

The National Center for Spine Medicine is a publicly funded institution that covers almost the entire spectrum of diagnostics and surgical treatment of spinal diseases.

The Center grew out of the Semmelweis University of Medicine Department of Spinal Surgery and Rehabilitation in 1995, was under the direction of the Central Army Hospital for several years and later integrated into the State Health Center becoming wholly independent in 2005. Presently, it is under the operation of the Buda Health Center, Ltd. with Peter Paul Varga, MD, its original founder, as General Director.

General and orthopedic surgeons, trauma and neurosurgeons, rheumatologists, anesthesiologists, intensive care doctors, radiologists, psychologists and other specialties (i.e., urologists, gynecologists, neurologists, ophthalmologists, otolaryngologists, etc.) make up the able staff experienced in examining and treating spinal disorders.

The Center has become known worldwide gaining international recognition for its complex method of reasoning behind the treatment of spinal disorders and the orthopedic and philosophical innovations that have come out of the Center to later become universally accepted methods of treatment of the spine.

The Buda Health Center started large-scale hospital development works in the spring of 2024 at the Királyhágó utca site.