Professor Wojciech Nowak, MD, PhD
Date of Birth
21st September 1949, Kraków
Education
Faculty of Medicine at the Academy of Medicine in Kraków 1968 – 74
Academic Degrees
Professor, Medical Sciences – Jagiellonian University Medical College 2003
Assistant Professor – Jagiellonian University Medical College 1997
PhD – Academy of Medicine in Kraków 1982
MD – Academy of Medicine in Kraków 1974
Specialisations
II degree general surgery – Kraków 1984
I degree general surgery – Kraków 1977
Employment and clinical position
Head of the III Chair and Clinic of General Surgery from 1st January 2009
Professor ordinary in JU MC from 2009
Professor Extraordinary in the I Chair of General Surgery 2004-2008
Deputy Ward Head at the Clinical Department of General and Gastroenterological Surgery at the University Hospital in
Kraków from 2003-2008
Academic position
Vice-Rector of the Jagiellonian University for the Medical College from 1st September 2008
Dean of the Faculty of Medicine JU MC 2005-2008
Head of the Faculty of Anatomy UJ CM 2004-2008
Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Medicine for Clinical Studies JU MC 1999-2002 and 2002-2005
Institutional appointments
President of the European Society of Surgery (ESS) from 25th November 2010
Member of the Examination Board of the Division of General Surgery (European Board of Surgery - EBS) from 25th
November 2010
Treasurer of the Association of UEMS Division of General Surgery &European Board of Surgery from 25th November 2010
Voivodship Consultant on General Surgery from 2008
Member of the State Examination Commission on General Surgery since 2007
Member of the European Union Network of Excellence for Gastric Cancer since 2007
Voivodship Specialist on Clinical Transplantology 2002-2006
Membership in scientific associations
Association of Polish Surgeons
Polish Anatomical Association
the Endocrine Surgery Section of the PTE
Polish Gastroenterological Association
the Polish Medical Association
the Polish USG Association
the European Society of Surgery - member of the board
International Society of Surgery
European Association of Endoscopic Surgery
European Society of Endocrine Surgery
Academic Interests
Endocrine surgery
Ultrasound in surgery
Surgical treatment of tumours of the digestive tract Issues in breast cancer
Transplantology
Publications
Author and co-author of 133 publications, 285 conferences, co-author of 3 monographs.