I specialise in pain management using minimally invasive methods – for example, I perform thermolesion and neuromodulation. I carry out spinal surgery procedures.
2018 – Doctor of Medical Sciences. Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland. Dissertation title: “A two year follow up study on quality of life and functional outcome in patients with generalised and PKAN related dystonia after DBS GPi treatment”. Supervisor: Professor Tomasz Mandat.
2018 – State Specialist Examination in Neurosurgery.
2010–2011 – University of Warsaw, Faculty of Law and Administration – Postgraduate Studies in Medical Law, Bioethics and the Sociology of Medicine.
2004–2010 – Medical University of Warsaw, 1st Faculty of Medicine.
Professional experience
Since 2022 – Medical Director at Global Teleclinic Assistance
Since 2019 – Neuro-orthopaedics Sub-department, Mazowiecki Provincial Hospital, Siedlce.
2018–2022 – Endovascular Procedures Laboratory, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw.
Since 2013 – Department of Neurosurgery, National Institute of Oncology, Warsaw.
2012–2018 – Department of Neurosurgery, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw.
2009–2012 – Vice-President of the Medicus Association of Medical Students and Young Doctors.
Scientific Activity
Presentations at scientific conferences
2022 – 11th Congress of the Polish Association for the Study of Pain – Cingulotomy and cordotomy – lesional neurosurgical procedures as an option in the treatment of cancer pain (1st prize for best lecture)
2022 – Congress of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies. Combined application of minimally invasive robotic techniques and radiotherapy in the treatment of pain in patients with spinal metastases – review of a pilot programme.
2022 – Spinal and Spinal Cord Neoplastic Diseases – National Institute of Oncology: Minimally invasive procedures in metastatic spinal disease.
2022 – 11th Conference “Palliative Medicine in Poland”: Cingulotomy as a method of treating oncological pain; Robotic spinal stabilisation in oncology patients
2018 – 23rd ESSFN Congress, Edinburgh – Deep brain stimulation in primary dystonia and in NBIA-related dystonia. Comparison of clinical improvement and quality of life. A two-year follow-up study.
2017 – 17th Meeting of the World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Berlin – Deep brain stimulation of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder – a two-year follow-up.
2015 – 14th Meeting of the Neurosurgical Societies of Asia and the Pacific – Jeju, The use of deep brain stimulation in the treatment of PKAN-related dystonia.
2014 – MDS conference Deep Brain Stimulation for Movement Disorders, Milan, Italy
2013 – 16th Meeting of the World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Tokyo – Treatment of dystonia using deep brain stimulation (Young Investigators’ Award).
2012–2015 – Polish School of Neurosurgery.
Participation in clinical trials
2017–2018 – Investigator and Principal Investigator in the “Post Market Clinical Follow Up Evaluating the Infinity Deep Brain Stimulation Implantable Pulse Generator System – PROGRESS” trial. Study number CRD784
Scientific and teaching work
Since 2022 – Co-author of the curriculum and lecturer in postgraduate studies. “Neurodidactics in the Workplace”, SWPS University, Warsaw.
Since 2022 – Lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine – Medical University of Warsaw.
Since 2021 – Member of the Bioethics Committee at the National Institute of Cardiology, Warsaw.
2012–2017 – Doctoral dissertation – Quality of life and functional improvement after DBS GPi treatment in patients with generalised dystonia and generalised dystonia with the PKAN mutation. A two-year follow-up study.
International fellowships
2019 – Department of Neurosurgery, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
2019 – Functional Neurosurgery Unit, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology & UCLH National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, England.
2016–2017 – Neuromodulation Training Programme – Abbott.
2015 – Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Korea. Training in general, vascular and functional neurosurgery (supervisor: Professor Sun Ha Paek).
