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Jan Měšt’ák was born on 26 August 1944 in Prague where he grew up. During the Protectorate, his father Jindřich Měšt’ák worked for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film company and made films with Lída Baarová who was a mistress of Joseph Goebbels, the propaganda minister of Nazi Germany. After the nationalisation of the film industry in 1948, he worked as the head of publicity. Jan Měšt’ák’s mother Anna was employed as a payroll accountant, first at Bílá Labuť and later at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (ČSAV). Jan Měšt’ák says he was a rather naughty boy with bad grades for conduct. He was also an all-round talented athlete, especially a volleyball player. At the age of fifteen, he entered a vocational secondary school - mechanics for precision instruments. In 1963, he entered the military service and joined the volleyball team of the Czechoslovak People’s Army Dukla Kolín. He graduated from specialised two-year school for workers. In 1966 he passed the admission exams to the 1st Faculty of Medicine of Charles University. He focused on plastic surgery. He was certified in 1972 and then joined the hospital in Most. Two years later he was recruited as an assistant at the Clinic of Plastic Surgery of the 3rd Medical Faculty of Charles University where he worked for more than twenty years. Before the Velvet Revolution he was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia; after the revolution he refused any offers to become involved in politics. Since 1997 he has worked at the plastic surgery department of the Bulovka Hospital in Prague; that same year he was involved in the establishment of the Esthé private clinic of aesthetic medicine in Prague. He also worked as a teacher of plastic surgery at the 1st Medical Faculty of Charles University. He is the author of several professional publications and numerous professional articles and the holder of several awards. He is a member of the Scientific Council of the Czech Medical Chamber, the Scientific Committee of the Scientific Council of the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic (MHČR), the Chairman of the Accreditation Commission for Plastic Surgery of MHČR and a member of the Examination Committee for attestation examinations in the field of plastic surgery at MHČR.
