Education:

1990–1997 Medical College in Cracow, Faculty of Medicine at the Jagiellonian University (JU)

Professional experience:

• Work in a teaching hospital.
• 1 June 2015 – now – Provincial Specialist in pediatric urology, Lesser Poland Voivodeship.
• 2001-2008 – Head of the Urodynamic Laboratory at the Pediatric Urology Clinic (JU).
• 1 March 1995 – 1 June 2016 – Assistant at the Pediatric Urology Clinic (JU).
• 1 October 1991 – 1 March 1995 – Assistant at the Pediatric Urology Clinic (JU).
• Work at the University Children’s Hospital (JU MC) in Cracow.

Professional achievements:

• 2000 – the title: “pediatric specialist – surgeon,” after passing the exam.
• 2005 – the title: “pediatric specialist – urologist,” after passing the exam.
• 2002 – PhD, MD degree after the defense of the thesis “Laparoscopy in nonpalpable testes syndrome”.
• Internships and Scholarships:
• 1 July 1989 – 31 August 1989 – Internship at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, USA.
• 1 July 1996 – 1 December 1996 – Scholarship: Project Hope Fundation for practice in Johns Hopkins Hospital Brady Buchanan Insitute in Baltimore USA.
• 1 October 2008 – 10 October 2008 – Internship and training in Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm at Paediatric Urology Unit, Sweden.
• 5 November 2016 –12 November 2016 – Internship in Wilhelmina Hospital, Utrecht USC at Paediatric Urology Unit, the Netherlands
  Masterclass Karolinska, Sweden 1-2. December 2018.
• 2015 – Prize of the Krakowska Gazeta [Krakowska Newspaper]: Winner in the competition: “Best Specialist in Lesser Poland”.

Medical services:

• Diagnosing and treatment of young patients with diseases of the urinary and genitourinary system.
• The renal, abdominal and testicular ultrasound.
• Preparation of patients, qualification of patients for surgical treatment.
• Full range of surgeries, particularly same-day surgery.
• Clinical management of patients with congenital defects, after surgical treatment.
• Diagnosing and treatment of renal and urinary bladder diseases, neurogenic bladders, disorders of sex development (DSDs), especially congenital defects.
• Nocturnal and diurnal enuresis – diagnosis and treatment and treatment.
• Special attention is paid to the patient comfort, all activities are carried out in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.

Performed surgeries:

• Phimosis – a full range of operations, including preputioplasty (a plastic surgery widening the prepuce), circumcision, age – any.
• Cryptorchidism / cryptorchismus – the testis is brought into the scrotum in a same-day surgery, age – from 9 months of age.
• Hernia in boys and girls / hernia – same-day surgeries with the use of plastic sutures, age – after 3 months of age.
• Hydrocoele testis – plastic surgery for the hydrocoele with testicular protection and possible testicular fixation, age – any.
• Hypospadias – plastic surgery of any type of hypospadias, also in a same-day surgery with special attention paid to a single-stage procedure, appearance and function of the penis, with the prepuce left or removed, recommended age – 9 months – 24 months, after 4 years of age.
• Buried penis/ penile defects – release and exposure of the penis, age – any.
• Scars, nodules, naevi – removal of skin lesions under regional and general anaesthesia and their subsequent histopathology. removal of other skin lesions, sebaceous cysts, warts, age – any.
• Endoscopic injection of ureteric orifices – endoscopic injection of the ureteric orifices with dextranomer / hyaluronic acid (deflux®), used for the treatment of the vesicoureteral reflux, recommended age – after 2 years of age.
• Cystoscopy – diagnostic and therapeutic.
• Laparoscopy – treatment of abdominal testes, varicocele and others.