MD, PhD Radosław Michalik

Education

• Graduate of the Medical Academy of Warsaw, 2nd Faculty of Medicine
• 1997 – First-degree specialisation in Neurosurgery and Neurotraumatology
• 2000 – Second-degree specialisation in Neurosurgery and Neurotraumatology
• 2001 – defence of doctoral dissertation; awarded doctorate in medical sciences
• From 1996 to 2003 he served as assistant at the Department of Normal Anatomy of the Medical Academy of Warsaw, where he led seminars and lectures in normal anatomy for students of the Faculty of Medicine

Professional experience

• Since 2004 – Department of Nervous System Tumours, Oncology Centre Institute in Warsaw;
• 2008–2017 – Department of Neurosurgery, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology in Warsaw;
• 2003–2004 – senior assistant at the Department of Neurosurgery of the Medical Academy of Gdańsk;
• 2002–2003; 2004–2011 – senior assistant at the Clinical Department of Neurosurgery of Bielański Hospital in Warsaw;
• 1998–2001 – assistant and senior assistant at the Department of Neurosurgery of CSK MSWiA in Warsaw; 1995–1998 – assistant at the Department of Neurosurgery of the Medical Academy of Warsaw;
• 1995–2003 – assistant and senior assistant at the Department of Normal Anatomy of the Medical Academy of Warsaw;
• 1995 – on-call shifts at the Orthopaedics Department of the City Centre Hospital in Warsaw;
• 1994–1995 – postgraduate internship at Bródnowski Hospital in Warsaw.

Areas of interest

Alpine skiing, windsurfing

Publications

Author and co-author of numerous scientific publications in neurosurgery, including papers in J Cereb Blood Flow Metab, Neurol Neurochir Pol, J Neurosurg, J Physiol Pharmacol, Folia Morph and Folia Neuropathol, covering topics such as cerebral vascular dysfunction after subarachnoid haemorrhage, deep brain stimulation, motor cortex stimulation, pituitary adenoma surgery, skull base surgery, and microsurgical anatomy of the basilar artery.

Courses and training

Participant in numerous Polish and international courses and workshops on spinal surgery, including Medtronic Spine Surgery Forums in Porto and Hamburg, AOSpine Davos Course, Eurospine Warsaw and Barcelona, Global Spine Outreach in Warsaw, IMAST Vancouver, Spine Symposium Amsterdam, NASS Annual Meeting Chicago, cadaveric workshops at the Royal College of Surgeons (London), Spineweek Geneva, Neuroendoscopy Workshop Marburg, and cadaver workshops on artificial disc implantation, minimally invasive spine surgery, spinal metastases, and vertebroplasty. (Full course list 2000–2017.)