Position:

Head of the Cardiac Surgery Department of PAKS /Polish-American Heart Clinics - American Heart of Poland, S.A./ in Bielsko Biala

Professional experience:

• The Upper Silesian Medical Center in Katowice Ochojec - 1984 - 1987
• St. Barbara Voivodeship Specialist Hospital in Sosnowiec Department of Vascular Surgery - 1988 - 1991
• Self-Governing Public Clinical Hospital No. 7 of in of the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice Ochojec – The First Clinic of Cardiac Surgery  -  1991 –  2002
• The Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, The First Chair and Clinic of Cardiac Surgery - 2002 - 2011
• The Polish-American Heart Clinics (American Heart of Poland S.A.) Cardiac Surgery Department in Bielsko Bia?a - Since December 2011

Experience gained abroad:

• Oxford Radcliffe Hospital – Great Britain – Application of minimally invasive techniques in cardiac surgery – 1996;
• Utrecht University - Holland – Application of endoscopy in cardiac surgery - 1997
• European Surgical Institute - Hamburg – Endoscopic techniques in coronary cardiac surgery – 1998;
• Mount Sinai Medical Center – New York, U.S.A. –  Surgical treatment of aortic aneurisms– 1996, 2000;
• Rouen University – Rouen, France – Transcutaneous grafting of aortic valves – 2008.

Publications

Author or  collaborating author of 148 scientific publications, inclusive of  37 original works of authorship,  with the total  amount of points: IF – 30,118 and KBN – 317.

Principal scientific and clinical interests

• Joint participation in the development and implementation into clinical practice of management standards and elaboration of recommendations for application of cardioplegia with blood in patients operated for ischemic heart disease.
• Clinical evaluation of the influence of exogenous phosphocreatine on the protection of the myocardium in patients past surgical myocardium revascularisation.
• Cardiac surgery procedures in the area of the thoracic aorta.
• Reconstructive procedures and the application of a biological stentless valve in the treatment of aortic valve disease.
• Application of endoscopy and implementation of new technologies (surgical robots) in cardiac surgery.

Masters degree studies in the Faculty of Medicine of the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice - 1978 - 1984 The first degree specialization in General Surgery - 1987 The second degree specialization in General Surgery - 1991 Defense of a doctoral dissertation in the Faculty of Medicine of the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice - 1994 Specialization in Cardiac Surgery - 1996 Defense of a habilitation /for a docent degree/ dissertation in the Faculty of Medicine of the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice - 2004

• Polish Medical Society – 1987
• Polish Surgical Society – 1987
• Polish Cardiac Society - 1994
• International Society of Cardiovascular Surgery – 1994