Dr. Peter Halmos

After escaping Hungary and the Holocaust, Dr. Peter Halmos received a full scholarship to Queens University in Belfast, Ireland. He completed his medical and cardiology training in 1965.

In 1966, he traveled to the US to work and teach at WVU. In 1968, he initiated a cardiology program at Memorial Hospital in Cumberland, MD. While there, he pioneered the development of a cardiac intensive care unit, high level care, stress testing, and echocardiogram labs. These were followed by a cardiac catheterization unit and cardiac surgery. He also established The Children’s Diagnostic Center to triage cardiac problems for the area youth.

Dr. Halmos was an exemplary community advocate. Over the years in the area, he served on many boards including chairman of the Department of Medicine and president of both the Memorial Hospital and Allegany County Medical Society.

After devoting his life to the medical field and as an advocate for so many programs in the area, he would be thrilled to have a PA scholarship at FSU.