Professor Wojciech Nowak, MD, Phd

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.