MD Karolina Oskroba

I am a physician with over ten years of experience working at the Paediatric Urology Department of the IP-CZD (“Memorial – Children’s Health Centre” Institute). I deal with the diagnosis of genitourinary disorders, managing patients at the Paediatric Urology Clinic, and surgical treatment of children with defects, injuries and cancers of the genitourinary system.

Procedures performed at Carolina Hospital:

• frenuloplasty (repair of the penile frenulum)
• circumcision
• foreskin repair
• unilateral/bilateral inguinal hernia
• unilateral/bilateral communicating hydrocele of the testis
• non-communicating hydrocele of the testis
• unilateral/bilateral inguinal cryptorchidism
• removal of atrophic testis
• removal of lesions of the penis and vulva

Education

2002–2008 Medical University of Białystok, Faculty of Medicine with Departments of Dentistry and Teaching in English

Professional experience

2009 – present: Department of Paediatric Urology, “Memorial – Children’s Health Centre” Institute, Senior Assistant Physician

• Specialist examination in paediatric surgery – March 2017
• FEAPU examination (Leuven, Belgium) – January 2020
• Specialist examination in paediatric urology – June 2020

Scientific articles

• Oskroba K. Catheterisation of the urinary bladder in children and adolescents. Standardy Medyczne/Pediatria 2021;T.18:628–632
• Oskroba K. Phimosis – a common problem in paediatric practice. Standardy Medyczne/Pediatria 2023;T.20:197–200

Textbooks

• Oskroba K, M. Baka-Ostrowska. Phimosis. In: Dobrzańska A, Obrycki Ł., Socha P. (eds.) Pediatrics in GP Practice. Warsaw, Media-Press 2022;533–534
• Oskroba K. Examination of the external genitalia. In: Obrycki Ł., Dobrzańska A. (eds.) Introduction to Paediatrics. Textbook for medical students. Warsaw, Media-Press 2022;66–67

Participation in congresses

• 24–25 September 2010 – 4th Warsaw Conference of Paediatric Urology “Posterior urethral valves”
• 9–12 May 2012 – 23rd Annual Meeting of ESPU, Zurich, Switzerland, participant
• 27 September 2012 – 5th Warsaw Conference of Paediatric Urology “Hypospadias”
• 28–29 September 2012 – 1st Scientific Congress of the Polish Society of Paediatric Urology. K. Oskroba, K. Felberg, M. Baka-Ostrowska: Skin covered bladder exstrophy (presentation)
• 2–4 October 2014 – 6th Warsaw Conference of Paediatric Urology “Bladder dysfunction”
• 8 September 2016 – 7th Warsaw Conference of Paediatric Urology “Ureterocele”
• 9–10 September 2016 – 2nd Congress of the Polish Society of Paediatric Urology. K. Oskroba, K. Kowalczyk, M. Baka-Ostrowska: Long-term outcomes of repair of deep hypospadias (presentation)
• 6–8 September 2018 – 8th Conference of Paediatric Urology “Disorders of Sex Development”
• 24–27 April 2019 – 30th Congress of the ESPU, Lyon, France, participant
• 20–22 May 2019 – 1st International Pediatric Urology Fellows Workshop, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Dept. of Urology, Ankara, Turkey, participant
• 21–22 June 2019 – 17th ESPU Educational Course, Universitätsklinikum Mannheim GmbH, Germany, participant
• 25–27 September 2019 – Fundamentals of Minimally Invasive Surgery, Warsaw, participant
• 11 November 2020 – ESPU Virtual Meeting, Leuven, Belgium, participant
• 11–12 December 2020 – PUV and Stones 2020 – ESPU Educational Committee Webinar, participant
• 15–17 September 2021 – Minimally Invasive Surgery in Children – Advanced Course, Warsaw, participant
• 23–25 September 2021 – 5th Joint Meeting of ESPU – SPU Virtual, Belgium, participant
• 2 October 2021 – 3rd Scientific Congress of the Polish Society of Paediatric Urology, Warsaw, participant
• 9 November 2021 – UROwebinar: Practical Approach to paediatric urology, participant
• 12–13 November 2021 – International Children’s Continence Society, Aarhus, Denmark, participant
• 18 January 2022 – UROWebinar: Urogenital tuberculosis, participant
• 1 February 2022 – UROwebinar: Update from the EAU Urological Trauma Guidelines – Management of upper tract trauma, participant
• 10 February 2022 – UROwebinar: Female urethral stricture management, participant
• 22 February 2022 – UROwebinar: PARP inhibitors in prostate cancer. Part 1, participant
• 8 March 2022 – UROwebinar: The world of digital in our urology practice, participant
• 15 March 2022 – UROWebinar: Patient stratification and risk related treatment of NMIBC, participant
• 8 September 2022 – 9th Warsaw Conference of Paediatric Urology “Exstrophy-Epispadias Complex”, Radziejowice: “Internal genitalia in female patients with cloacal exstrophy” (presentation)
• 9–10 September 2022 – 4th Congress of the Polish Society of Paediatric Urology, Radziejowice: “Urethral duplication in boys – case reports” (presentation)
• 17–18 April 2023 – Hypospadias Repair Advanced Course, Braga, Portugal, participant
• 19–22 April 2023 – 33rd Congress of the European Society of Paediatric Urology, Lisbon, Portugal, participant

Membership in Scientific Societies

• Polish Society of Paediatric Urology – since 2012
• ESPU YPU Committee – April 2019
• ESPU – since 2022