Education and academic titles:

• • - Faculty of Medicine – Medical Academy in Poznań – graduation in 1964.
  • - Specialization in ophthalmology:
     I° - 1968
     II° - 1971
  • - Academic degrees and titles:
     PhD - 1972
     - habilitation - 1978
     - Professor - 1987

 

Professional career:

• • - 1966-1976 - Ophthalmology Clinic in Poznań – Assistant, Adjunct
  • - 1976-1979 - Department of Ophthalmology, Provincial Hospital in Zielona Góra – Head of Department
  • - 1979-2010 - Eye Diseases Clinic, Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz - Manager
  • - 2008-now - President of NZOZ OFTALMIKA in Bydgoszcz

 

Career accomplishments:

• • - 1980 - 1992 - Editor-in-chief of ‘Klinika Oczna’
  • - 1985 - The first person in Poland to implant artificial intraocular lenses after cataract removal
  • - 1990 - 1995 - Rector of the Medical Academy in Bydgoszcz
  • - 1998 - 2004 - President of the Polish Society of Ophthalmology
  • - In 2000, together with his team, he was the first person in the world to use Spectral Optical Coherence Tomography in ophthalmological diagnostics.
  • - At present he is a Polish delegate in the European Society of Ophthalmology and in the Section of Ophthalmology of the European Union of Medical Specialists (Brussels).
  • - Author of over 200 scientific papers published in Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, the USA and Italy.

 

Professional interests:

During his more than forty-year career, he held successively all departments of ophthalmology and performed more than 20,000 ophthalmic operations. He has particular interest in cataract surgery, antiglaucoma operations, diseases of the retina and laser surgery.