Position: Head of the Clinic

Specialties:                          

• first degree: general surgery 1976
• second degree:  general surgery 1981
• specialist in cardiac surgery 1988
• second degree specialist in angiology 2003

Scientific degrees:       

• Doctor Degree (PhD)
• Habilitation (second level doctor degree)
• Professorship
• Title of ordinary professor

Scientific internships:

• The Poznan Cardiothoracic Center - 1975
• Karolinska Institutet Stockholm - 1980
• training course in cardiosurgery in the Regional Cardiac Surgery Centre in Leicester – Great Britain - 1983-1991
• Clinic of Cardiac Surgery of the Institute of Rheumatology in Warsaw - 1988
• Deborah Heart and Lung Center, Browns Mills N.Y. – USA - 1988
• Leipzig - 1989

Scientific Councils:

Scientific Council of the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare

Scientific Councils of medical journals:

- Medipress – Kardiologia (Cardiology)

- Chirurgia Polska (Polish Surgery)

- Polski Przegl?d Kardiologiczny (Polish Cardiological Review)

- Kardiologia Polska (Polish Cardiology)

- Folia Cardiologica

- Circulation – Polish edition

- Current Opinion in Cardiology – Polish edition

- Journal  of the American College of Cardiology - Polish edition

- Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia  Polska (Polish Cardiac Surgery   and Thoracic Surgery)

- Annales Academiae Medicae Silensis

- Wideochirurgia i inne techniki ma?oinwazyjne (Videosurgery and other minimally invasive techniques).

        

Adam Mickiewicz Secondary Grammar School in Katowice 1963-1967 Higher studies: Silesian Medical Academy in Katowice 1967-1973 PhD in Medicine – Medical University of Silesia - Thesis entitled: “Experimental research on the selection of perfusion fluids and determination of blood washout degree in a total washout of blood from the body” Habilitation process - Dissertation entitled: “A clinical assessment of an extracorporeal circulation technique with the use of an auto-oxygenation method employed in surgical treatment of the coronary disease”. first degree: general surgery 1976 second degree: general surgery 1981 specialist in cardiac surgery 1988 second degree specialist in angiology 2003

• Member of Chapter of “GLORIA MEDICINAE”
• Member of the Executive Board, Polish Cardiac Society
• International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery - Member of the Executive Board
• Polish Cardiothoracic Society
• Association of Polish Surgeons
• European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
• International Society of Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons
• Society of Cardiothoracic Section of Great Britain & Ireland
• Society of Minimally Invasive Surgery