MD Maciej Bujko

I am a neurosurgery specialist, a graduate of the Faculty of Medicine at the Medical University, and a certified instructor in endoscopic spine surgery. I specialise in the surgical treatment of brain and spinal conditions, as well as in interventional pain management. I completed my specialist training in neurosurgery at the Department of Neurosurgery of the Medical University of Warsaw and at the Department of Neurosurgery of the CMKP in Warsaw. I have independently performed more than 2,500 operations.

I specialise in minimally invasive surgical techniques for the brain and spine using a surgical microscope and endoscopy. I have particular experience in brain-tumour surgery – gliomas (operations with neuromonitoring and in awake patients), skull-base tumours (including cerebellopontine angle tumours), cervical, thoracic and lumbar discopathies using classical (open) approaches, and the full range of endoscopic spine surgery, instrumented spinal stabilisations, artificial discs, foramen magnum decompressions in Chiari malformation, microvascular decompressions in neurovascular conflicts (trigeminal neuralgia, hemifacial spasm), skull-base reconstructions – interdisciplinary endoscopic operations with the laryngological team, brain cavernous angiomas and aneurysms (ruptured and unruptured, classical and endovascular operations – a unique experience among neurosurgeons), spinal cord cavernous angiomas, endoscopic treatment of hydrocephalus and cerebral/spinal cysts, interventional pain management (spinal blocks, facet joint blocks, foraminal blocks, ganglion blocks, epidurals, peripheral nerve blocks under fluoroscopy or ultrasound guidance, thermolesions, implantation of spinal cord stimulators for pain management).

Spinal surgery and pain management procedures performed

• full range of endoscopic spine surgery
• cervical, thoracic and lumbar discopathies using classical (open) approaches
• instrumented spinal stabilisations
• artificial discs
• interventional pain management (spinal blocks, thermolesions)

Education

• 2018–2019 – Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Postgraduate Studies in Pain Medicine
• 2009 – specialist qualification in neurosurgery
• 1995–2001 – Medical University of Warsaw, 1st Faculty of Medicine

Professional experience

• 2022 – international instructor in full endoscopic spine surgery with RIWO Spine
• 2022 – operating surgeon at CM Gamma Warsaw
• 2019 – present – operating surgeon in the interdisciplinary team for endoscopic skull-base surgery at the Department of Otolaryngology of the Medical University of Warsaw, Czerniakowski Hospital and the Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Interior and Administration in Warsaw
• 2014 – present – consultant and operating neurosurgeon at the Neurosurgery Department of Zachodni Hospital in Grodzisk Mazowiecki
• 2016 – present – consultant and operating neurosurgeon at St Anne’s Hospital in Warsaw
• 2014–2018 – consultant and operating neurosurgeon at the Praski Hospital in Warsaw
• 2014–2015 – consultant and operating neurosurgeon at the Paediatric Neurosurgery Department of the Bogdanowicz Hospital in Warsaw
• 2011–2014 – neurosurgery consultant at the GammaKnife Centre
• 2008–2013 – consultant and operating neurosurgeon at Carolina Medical Center
• 2015–2016 – assistant at the Department of Neurotraumatology, Paediatric Traumatology and Ophthalmology of the Medical University of Warsaw
• 2007–2014 – academic-teaching assistant / senior lecturer at the Department of Neurosurgery and Nervous System Injuries of the CMKP in Warsaw (training supervisor Prof. M. Ząbek) – neurosurgeon and lecturer on specialist / advanced courses organised by the Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education (more than 100 lectures delivered)
• 2002–2007 – junior assistant at the Department of Neurosurgery of the Medical University of Warsaw (training supervisor Prof. A. Marchel)

I am the author and co-author of presentations, conference papers and publications on neurosurgical issues. I completed the 4-year cycle of the Polish School of Neurosurgery and of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS) Training, as well as the 2-year EANS Spine Training course. I am a lecturer on specialist and advanced courses organised by the Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education. I hold a range of certificates documenting my skills in spine treatment.

Memberships in organisations

1. European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS)
2. European Society of Spine Surgeons AO Spine
3. Polish Association for the Study of Pain
4. Polish Society of Neurosurgeons