PROFESIONAL AND ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
1997 till present Department of Urology, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
• 2012 till present Department Chairman
• 2011 Full Professor of Urology
• 2009-2012 Department vice Chair
• 2007-2011 Associate Professor of Urology, Head of the Urogynecology and Functional Urology Unit
• 2004-2007 senior staff member, consultant urologist, Head of the Neurourology Research Unit
• 2001-2004 junior staff member, Head of the Neurourology Research Unit
• 1998-2001 resident in urology and Head of the Urodynamic Lab
• 1996-1998 resident in surgery
1996-1997 internship in the Regional Hospital Bielsko-Biała, Poland
1995-1996 post-doc fellowship (EAU scholarship) in the Department of Urology, Lund, Sweden
EDUCATION
• Fellow of the European Board of Urology, 2004
• Ph.D. -Warsaw School of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland, 1995
• M.D.- Silesian Medical Academy in Katowice, Poland, 1994
PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATIONS, CONGRESSES:
• Over 250 original articles
• 67 book chapters and 12 books
• Over 120 congress presentations
• Over 300 state of the art lectures (national and international)
• Organizer and President of 2 Congress series (Neurourology-7 editions, UroRadioOncology-2 editions),organizer of over 10 multidiscyplinary debates (urogynecology, neurourology, pain) for doctors, physioterapists, nurses and patients
H index 12, IF 138, Citations-800
MEMBERSHIP IN SOCIETIES, COMMITEES , EDUCATION, EDITORIAL BOARDS
• Past Member of the Board of The Functional and Female Urology Section of the European Association of Urology (2004-2014)
• Past Member of the Guidelines Committee on Neurogenic Bladder of the European Association of Urology (2004-2012)
• Member of the International Continence Society (2007-2011 member of the Standardization Committee, Neurourology Committee and Educational Committee, ICS Trustee)
• Member of the Polish Association of Urology Scientific Committee
• Member of the Pathophysiology Section, Urological Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences
• ICI 2004, 2007, 2012, 2016 sub-committee 12 on neuropathic patients
• Member of the editorial board of "Neurourology and Urodynamics", “Central European Journal of Urology”, “Annals of Urology”, “Archives of medical Sciences”, “Urologia Internationalis”
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Association of Urology
• Member of the Academic Association of European Urologists
• Lecturer of the European Urology Residency Programme
• Examiner for FEBU
• Member of The National Council for Development under the President of Poland
• Lecturer for Nurses and Physiotherapists learning programmes
• Advisor to the Patient Advocacy Groups (Incontinence, Spinal Cord Injury, Multiple Sclerosis, Bladder Pain)
SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS
• neurourology
• incontinence
• lower urinary tract pathophysiology
• epidemiology
• multidisciplinary studies
• integrative cross disciplinary research
KEY PROJECTS:
1.Changes of the lower urinary tract innervation in multiple sclerosis
2.Etiopathogenesis of the stress urinary incontinence in females
3.The role of neurotoxins in the treatment of overactive bladder
4.Effects of conotoxins, tetradoxin and vanilloids on the lower urinary tract functions
5.New applications of botulinum toxin in urology
6.Innervation of the lower urinary tract in patients after radical prostatectomy
7.Lower urinary tract changes in patients with Fowler syndrome
8.Interstitial cystitis biomarkers
9.Regenerative medicine in lower urinary tract
10.Epidemiology and treatment of neurogenic bladder in Poland-registry study
Languages:
• English-fluent
• French-average
• Russian-average
INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH AND CLINICAL EXPERIENCE
2007
AUA/EAU exchange programme
2003
Visiting lecturer of The Socrates-Erasmus Program to the University of Siena (Italy)
2001
Visit in the Department of Urology, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, (six weeks) as a result of the European Urological Scholarship Foundation clinical scholarship.
Main focus on: surgery for incontinence, neuromodulation with spinal cord implants, urooncology.
2000
Visit in the Department of Neurourology UCL, London, Great Britain (two weeks)
Main focus on: the use of vanilloids in multiple sclerosis patients, Fowler’s syndrome, treatment of functional voiding disorders with neuromodulation (foramen implants)
1994-1996
Researches in the Urological Clinic in Lund, Sweden, as a result of the European Board of Urology Scholarship Foundation scholarship
Main focus on: the innervation and the morphology of the external urethral sphincter in normal and in the pathological conditions -immunohistochemical, electron microscopy, in vitro, in vivo and physiological/neurophysiological studies)
1991-1994
Department of Anatomy,Silesian Medical Academy in Katowice
Main focus on: morphological studies of the innervation of the external urethral sphincter.
1991,1992
Visit in the Urological Clinic in Wuppertal,Germany, (10 weeks )
Main focus on: clinical urology and urodynamics
1992
Visit in the Department of Urology,Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, (one months)
Main focus on: clinical urology and urodynamics