Senior consultant for Hematology and Blood Transfusion, at the Military Medical Service of the Army of the Czech Republic.
Graduated from Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Pediatrics, in 1986, where he worked as a pediatrician for four years.
After post-graduate study, he started his professional career in hematology and blood transfusion service. The Department of Hematology and blood transfusion Military University Hospital Prague is the leading facility in the Czech Republic in implementation of NAT testing into routine, not only for blood borne infections, but also for blood group genotyping.
In 1996, Dr. Bohonĕk joined the Army of the Czech Republic. He was deployed on two field missions - 2003 in Iraq with the 7th Field Hospital of the ACR, and 2005/6 in Pakistan with the international NATO humanitarian mission, Winter Race.
He has published in the Czech Republic as well as in international journals on many topics concerning blood transfusion medicine, and has had numerous talks and posters at various congresses, both at home and abroad. His main scientific interest lies in cryopreservation of blood and in issues associated with military blood transfusion service and clinical transfusion medicine and in the field of hemostatic resuscitation during massive bleeding and implementation of whole blood transfusion in both civiliand and military settings.
Dr. Bohonĕk is the guarantor in the field of hematology and blood transfusion and the university lecturer at The Faculty of Biomedical Engineering Czech Technical University Prague. He is long-term member of the board of Society for Transfusion Medicine of the Czech Medical Society, serving as its chairman from 2018-2022, president of the Society of Military Medicine of the Czech Medical Society, member of the International Society of Blood Transfusion, member of Association for the Advancement of Blood and Biotherapies and member of the working group Blood Panel of COMEDS NATO.