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MD, PhD Marek Filipek

Urology specialist

MD, PhD Marek Filipek
I am an active member of the Polish Urological Association and the European Association of Urology. I am the first Polish urologist certified as an Ablatherm® HIFU operator, and I am the only physician in Central and Eastern Europe to conduct training for doctors and medical teams in this advanced technology. I specialise in urology and general surgery, with an emphasis on the diagnosis and treatment of prostate diseases.

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Warsaw

Pory 78, Warsaw, Poland

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Head-of-department urology consultation – 400 PLN
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About me

I am a promoter of prevention and modern methods of treatment and minimally invasive surgical techniques, as well as a pioneer of the HIFU (High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound) method – focal high-intensity ultrasound therapy – in Poland and Central and Eastern Europe.
The main areas of my scientific and professional activity are oncological, laparoscopic and robotic urology, as well as general surgery.

Education

  • 1977 – graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the Medical Academy of Kraków
  • 1980 – obtained first-degree specialisation in general surgery
  • 1986 – obtained second-degree specialisation in urology
  • 1999 – awarded a doctorate in medical sciences

Professional experience

  • Head of the Urology Department of the Independent Specialist Zachodni Hospital in Grodzisk Mazowiecki. He built from scratch one of the most modern and best-equipped urology departments in Poland
  • Associated with the Department of Urology of the Collegium Medicum of the Jagiellonian University, where he worked as senior assistant and lecturer
  • From 2000 to 2006 he served as Head of the Urology Department at the St Luke’s Provincial Hospital in Tarnów
  • In 2010 he founded HIFU Clinic – Prostate Cancer Treatment Centre, a facility specialising in comprehensive diagnosis and modern treatment of prostate cancer. Since HIFU Clinic merged with the LUX MED Group in 2021, he has served as Medical Director of HIFU Clinic and Leader of the Urology Team at St Elizabeth’s Hospital.
  • Since the end of 2024 he has been working and operating at St Elizabeth’s Hospital as an independent urologist. He is currently working on a new medical project focused on modern urology.

Scientific Activity

He is the author of numerous publications and presentations at Polish and international conferences. His output includes more than 30 scientific papers, published in, among others, “Urologia Polska” and presented at congresses of the Polish Urological Association (PTU) and the European Association of Urology (EAU). His work covers the application of HIFU in the treatment of prostate cancer, assessment of the dynamics of PSA concentration changes in patients after therapy, and the potential use of transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) in assessing the local stage of prostate cancer.

He has participated in international clinical trials and the annual conferences of the American Urological Association (AUA). He is also an active member of the Polish Urological Association and the European Association of Urology, and from 1997 to 2001 he served as vice-chair of the Kraków Branch of the PTU.

He is a laureate of a PTU award and of the Prof. Zew Wajsman distinction.

Scientific publications

  • Original papers at the EAU 14th Central European Meeting (CEM), Kraków, 2014:
    • The assessment of PSA concentration dynamics in prostate cancer patients treated with “radical-HIFU” in own material – preliminary findings.
    • The role of TURP in the assessment of T-staging of prostate cancer in a group of patients undergoing primary “radical-HIFU” in own material.
    • Prostate biopsy in patients following high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) therapy for prostate cancer in own material – preliminary results.
      Certificate of Attendance in the Masterclass NMIBC (Amsterdam, 2014)
  • Original papers on own material at the Congress of the Polish Urological Association, 2014:
    • The role of TURP in assessing the local stage of prostate cancer in a group of patients undergoing primary “radical HIFU” in own material
    • Assessment of the dynamics of PSA concentration changes in prostate cancer patients undergoing “radical HIFU” in own material – preliminary observations.
    • Prostate biopsy in patients after treatment of prostate cancer using high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) in own material – preliminary observations.
  • Lecture “Application of HIFU in the treatment of prostate cancer” at the Scientific Congress of the Polish Urological Association, 2013
  • Co-author of an article in Przegląd Urologiczny 2013/5 (81) “Application of focal high-intensity ultrasound therapy (HIFU) in prostate cancer”, 2013
  • Lecture “Thermal transrectal ultrasound ablation of the prostate (HIFU) – a method for treating recurrence of prostate cancer? Prostate cancer recurrence after radical treatment” at the Olympic Centre, Warsaw 2013
  • 33rd Congress of the Société Internationale d’Urologie; Vancouver, Canada, 2013
  • 11th Urology Scientific Forum, Porto, Portugal, 2012
  • 32nd Congress of the Société Internationale d’Urologie; Fukuoka, Japan 2012
  • Conducting a scientific seminar in Grodzisk Mazowiecki on the possibilities of using focused ultrasound (HIFU method) in the treatment of prostate cancer in Polish patients, 2012
  • SIU World Meeting on Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction; Marrakech, Morocco 2010
  • 12th European Prosthesis Urology Workshop at Fundació Puigvert; Barcelona, Spain 2011
  • Annual Meeting of the International Continence Society (ICS) and International Urogynecological Association (IUGA); Toronto, Canada, 2010
  • Annual Meeting of the American Urological Association in Chicago; Illinois 2009
  • 24th Annual EAU Congress; Stockholm, Sweden, 2009
  • 30th Congress of the Société Internationale d’Urologie; Shanghai, China 2009
  • Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand, Annual Scientific Meeting; Adelaide, Australia, 2007
  • Global Prostate Cancer Summit; Athens, Greece, 2005
  • 14th ESPU Congress, IFEMA; Madrid, Spain, 2003
  • Chair and Department of Urology, Medical Academy of Warsaw: 1st Warsaw Neurourology Seminar, 2002
  • 10th World Congress of the International Society for Sexual Impotence Research; Montreal 2002
  • Lilly Global Medical Conference: “Changing the nature of ED treatment”; Indianapolis GMC/Lilly, 2002
  • Urology School of the PTU Education Committee: “Bladder cancer” – Oncology Centre in Kielce, 2002

Certificates

  • Participated in many scientific and advanced training courses
  • Completed placements and fellowships at many prestigious international urology centres, including the Department of Urology of Prof. F. Debruyne in Nijmegen
  • In 2014 completed training in Focal-One HIFU with Dr Albert Gelet, at Hospices Civils de Lyon Edouard Herriot Hospital, Lyon, France
  • In 2014 participated in the European School of Urology course “Focal therapy in prostate cancer” in Stockholm
  • Laparoscopic course at the Urology Department of Dr Jan Biziel Hospital in Bydgoszcz: “Laparoscopy in Urology”, 2001