Date & Place of Birth: April 28^th 1958 in Warsaw

Nationality: Polish

Education: M.B.: Medical Academy in Warsaw, 1983

1990 – Specialist in Thoracic Surgery

1996 – Specialist in General Surgery

Post held:

2004 to present – Director of the Pulmonary Hospital in Zakopane

1996 to present – Head of Department of Thoracic Surgery of the Pulmonary Hospital in Zakopane

Main developments:

New surgical techniques:

1. Transcervical-Subxiphoid-VATS Maximal Thymectomy (2000),
2. VATS Resternotomy for rethymectomy (2003)
3. Transcervical Extended Mediastinal Lymphadenectomy (TEMLA) (2004),
4. Transcervical Pulmonary Lobectomy (2007),
5. Subxiphoid-Right VATS Thymectomy and Rethymectomy (2012).

Main fields of interest:

Currently, I am working on the refinement of the technique of transcervical and subxiphoid approaches for pulmonary resections and mediastinal procedures

Publications:

140 publications including recently published book:

Zieliński M, Rami-Porta R (Eds): Transcervical Approach in Thoracic Surgery. Springer 2014.  

Organizations:

European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS)

European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)

International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC)

Society of Polish Surgeons

American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS)

Awards:

2011 – Tsuguo Naruke Lectureship Award  Prize during World Congress of Lung Cancer in Amsterdam 2011

Committees :

1. ESTS working group:
   
   

2006 – ESTS guidelines for intraoperative lymph node staging in non-small cell lung cancer

2007 – Pre-operative lymphnode staging for non-small cell lung  cancer

2014 – Revised ESTS Guidelines for preoperative mediastinal lymph node staging for non small cell lung cancer  EJCTS 2014

2. Member of the Thoracic Domain of EACTS 2011-15
3. Member of the EACTS thymic working group since 2007
4. Member of the IASLC Staging Committee since 2011 to 2017

Hobbies: History, Sport

In the past I was a member of Polish National Team in Javelin throwing