Assistant Professor at Institute of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine in Warsaw, head of the Clinic of Vascular Surgery since 2009. He was one of the pioneers in endovascular surgery in Poland. A President of the Polish Society for Vascular Surgery in years 2016-2018, member of the Polish Society of Plebology and the International Society of Endovascular Specialists.
His main interests in medical research are focused on the open and endovascular treatment of abdominal and thoracic aortic aneurysms, including the use of branched and fenetstrated stent-grafts.

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His work is directed toward the development of modern techniques in endovascular surgery.
He designed the first Polish peripheral ballon-expandable stent and is also the inventor of other endovascular devices, produced by foreign medical companies. He works as a principal investigator in many ongoing trials. He thinks the future holds for endovascular medicine.

Prof. dr hab. med. Piotr Andziak - Specjalista w dziedzinie chirurgii naczyniowej oraz chirurgii ogólnej. Absolwent Wydziału Lekarskiego Akademii Medycznej w Warszawie, którą ukończył w 1981 roku. Doktorat uzyskał w 1986 roku na podstawie rozprawy pt.: „Żylaki kończyn dolnych w wybranej populacji dzielnicy Bródno w Warszawie”. W 1993 roku na podstawie oceny ogólnego dorobku naukowego i przedłożonej rozprawy habilitacyjnej pod tytułem: „Badania nad wadami tętnic szyjnych wewnętrznych” uzyskał stopień doktora habilitowanego nauk medycznych. W 1999 roku otrzymał tytuł profesora nauk medycznych. Autor i współautor ponad 170 publikacji naukowych. Od stycznia 2000 roku do chwili obecnej kierownik Kliniki Chirurgii Ogólnej i Naczyniowej Centralnego Szpitala Klinicznego MSWiA w Warszawie.

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Konsultant krajowy w dziedzinie chirurgii naczyniowej. Zainteresowania naukowe obejmują chirurgiczne leczenie zwężeń tętnic szyjnych i łuku aorty, następstwa niedokrwienia mózgu u chorych ze zwężeniami tętnic szyjnych, przyczyny i leczenie zespołu hyperperfuzyjnego, wpływ morfologii blaszki miażdżycowej na wyniki leczenia zwężeń tętnic szyjnych oraz leczenie zakażeń protez naczyniowych.

Personal Statement:
I have been practicing medicine for more than 55 years and Vascular and Endovascular Surgery for more than 45 years. This is the sum of a lifetime of work and I would not trade one moment of it to have done anything else. I love to teach and have been involved in training medical students, residents and some selected Vascular Surgeons. The same goes for clinical research. Our Vascular Surgery Division at BS&W and the VA have completed 12 FDA IDE projects and many other clinical investigations which have resulted in peer publications or presentations at National and International meetings. Through my association with the International Society for Endovascular Surgery, I have had the unique opportunity to lecture and operate in many countries OUS. These have been extremely gratifying experiences and in some cases have truly improved the level of care available to some local 2nd or 3rd world population groups. I view my time spent working with USAF Parasrescue during the Vietnam war as the pinnacle of my career. It brought me in close contact with a group of persons who would willingly give their all – including their lives, if necessary – to rescue and then care for person(s) in need of their highly skilled services.

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Education:

INSTITUTION AND LOCATION	DEGREE	YEAR(s)	FIELD OF STUDY
University of Pennsylvania	BA	1958	Chemistry
Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, PA	MD	1962	Medicine
Hahnemann Hospital	Surgical Internship	1962-1963
Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center	Surg. Resident	1969-1973	General Surgery
Harvard University/Massachusetts	Vascular Surgery	1973-1974	Vascular Surgery
General Hospital	Fellowship

 

Work History:

Associate Chief of Staff, Surgical Services, Central Texas Veterans Health Care System Temple, Texas
Member and former Chair of the Vascular Surgery Advisory Board for the National Director of Surgery, VHA.
Chief Surgical Consultant for VISN 17.
Professor of Surgery (Unmodified Title) Texas A&M University Health Science Center, College of Medicine
He is involved in administration, teaching and the practice of vascular surgery for the Central Texas Veterans Health Care System and Baylor Scott and White Health for 24 years. He is current in Board Certification in Vascular and General Surgery.
He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Endovascular Therapy.
Dr. Buckley has 16 years of service with both the USAF MC and the USAF line operations serving as OIC/Surgeon for Pararescue during the Vietnam war and later serving as Program Director for the largest Surgical Residency Program in the US military. Last military assignment was Chairman, Division of Surgery, Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center.
Prior to coming to Temple, Texas, Dr. Buckley spent 15 years in the private practice of Vascular Surgery in San Antonio, Texas and was affiliated with the University of Texas Health Science Center and the STVHCS as surgical faculty.

Family:

Dr. Buckley is married to Shirley G. Buckley, MSN, RN. He has three daughters, two sons and three step-daughters. One son is currently the Program Director for the Emergency Medicine Residency at BS&W Health. He has seventeen grandchildren.

Hobbies and Talents:
Travel, teaching and reading

Dr. Buckley is a member of many prestigious professional organizations. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a Distinguished Fellow of the Society for Vascular Surgery, Past President of the Texas Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Society and a member and Past President Texas Surgical Society, to name but a few. He is President of the International Society of Endovascular Specialists.
Dr. Buckley has authored over 70 peer-reviewed articles, 6 book chapters and has been Co-Guest Editor for Seminars in Vascular surgery on three occasions. He is and has been an invited lecturer and visiting professor both nationally and internationally on more than one hundred occasions.

Connection to a Veteran:

Dr. Buckley spent 16 years in the USAF and 10+ years serving the VHA.

Dr. Frank J Criado is a Board-Certified Vascular Surgeon and Endovascular Specialist at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland – USA. He trained in general surgery in Baltimore, and then moved to Houston, Texas in the early 1980s to become a Fellow in Cardiovascular Surgery at the Baylor College of Medicine-Methodist Hospital under Drs. Michael DeBakey and Stanley Crawford.

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Dr. Criado is widely recognized to be a pioneer in endovascular therapy, and a major presence at most major vascular and endovascular congresses and events in the U.S. and around the world. He has contributed extensively to the literature with more than 170 papers, editorials, and book chapters. He was the Editor-in-Chief of Vascular Disease Management (VDM) from its inception in 2004 until the end of 2013. He has also been very active in clinical research, with a major focus on aortic stent-graft and carotid interventions, and endovascular technologies in general. He was the U.S. National Principal Investigator (P.I.) for the Medtronic Talent AAA clinical trials, and a member of the Executive Committee for the Medtronic Valor and Valor II Thoracic TAA trials. Additionally, he has been a Site-Principal Investigator for multiple other clinical studies testing aortic endografts and carotid-stent systems.
He is a founding member and past President of the International Society of Endovascular Specialists (ISES), Founder and past President of the Endovascular Surgery Society of Latinamerica (CELA), and a member of all major US and international vascular and endovascular societies. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS) and a Fellow of the Society of Vascular Medicine (FSVM), and a member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) – 2007-09, and presently.

 

Academic title:

Univ.-Professor Dr. med., FEBS, FEBVS

Medical training:

1981-1987	Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel (Germany), Zurich (Switzerland) and Rochester MN (Mayo-Clinic) USA
1987	Final examination
28.06.1988	Medical Licensure (M.D.)
26.09.1989	Doctor thesis (Dr. med., magna cum laude)

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Professional Carreer:

1989-1990	Institute of Pathology,University of Würzburg, Germany
1990-1991	Dept. of Surgery, University of Marburg, Germany
since 1991	Dept. of Surgery, University of Würzburg, Germany
9.12.1997	German Board Certification `General Surgeon´
16.05.1998	European Board of Surgery Qualification (EBSQ), Vienna/Austria
17.05.1998	Habilitation at Julius-Maximilians-University Wuerzburg, Germany
Since 06/99	Consultant, Dept. of Surgery, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
30.08.1999	Faculty appointment as University Lecturer in General Surgery
Since 04/00	Senior Consultant, Vascular Unit, Dept. of Surgery, University of Wuerzburg
1.3.01 - 1.6.02	Study of Health Care Management (Institute of Management and Economics, University of Marburg, Germany)
25.09.2002	European Board of Surgeons Qualification, Vascular Surgery (EBSQ - VASC), Istanbul/Turkey
Since 05/2003	Chief Deptartment of General and Vascular Surgery, Asklepios Clinic, Hamburg-Harburg, Germany
Since 2004	Board of Directors, German Vascular Society
Since 2005	Director of the Surgical Clinics, Asklepios Clinic, Hamburg-Harburg
Since 10/2009	Professor and Chairman, Department of Vascular Medicine, University of Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
2011/2012	President elect German Vascular Society
2013/2014	President German Vascular Society
2013/2014	Presidium German Society of Surgery
Since 2014	Guest Professorship Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan/China
10.03.2014	Certification Phlebology
2008-2013	2nd Secretary Northwestern German Society of Surgery
Since 2013	Secretary Northern German Society of Surgery (Vereinigung Norddeutscher Chirurgen)
Jan. 2015	Secretary General elect European Society for Vascular Surgery 2015 – 2020
June 2015	Guest Professorship, MAYO-Clinic, Rochester MN, USA

Memberships:

German Society of Surgery
German Vascular Society
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Angiologie
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Thromboseforschung und Hämostaseologie
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Herz-/Thorax- und Gefäßchirurgie
North-Western German Society of Surgery
Nortern German Society of Vascular Specialists
Association of German Surgeons
European Society of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
Society for Vascular Surgery

Distinctions:

22.10.2015	Corresponding Membership Austrian Society for Vascular Surgery
21.10.2016	Honorary Membership Romanian Vascular Society

Activities:

Medical Board Chirurgie, Asklepios (2005 - 2009)
Editor Journal of Wound healing (2000-2005)
Editor Gefässchirurgie, Springer (since 2004)
Editor GefäßmedizinSCAN Thieme (since 2014)
Co-Editor Innovative Surgical Science (ISS) Open Access Journal (since 2016)
Editorial Board International Wound Journal, Blackwell (since 2004)
Editorial Board Zeitschrift für Wundheilung / Journal of Wound Healing (since 2007)
Editorial Board Woundmanagement, mhp-Verlag (since 2007)
Editorial Board VASA (since 2004)
Editorial Board Trauma und Berufskrankheit (since 2011)
Editorial Board Der Chirurg (since 2012)
Reviewer Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg (nominated under the best 25 Reviewers in 2015), Der Chirurg, Langenbecks Arch Surg, Int Wound Journal
Director European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery (since 2011)
Academic Board, German Vascular Society
Academic Board Deutsche Gesellschaft für Biomechanik
Board German Heart Foundation e.V.

Scientific and Academic Achievements / Projects:

Several grants (i.e. keratinocyte transplantation, cytokines in wound healing, molecular biology of gastrointestinal wound healing, COOK fellowship program, Health Care Sciences, GermanVasc Registry Program, Vascular Evidence Internet Portal, molecular biology of restenosis and Neointima)

Co-organizer and surgical co-ordinator of numerous national and international meetings.

Principal investigator an investigator of several ongoing clinical trials. Experience with numerous studies evaluating medical devices.

Graduate of Medical University in Wroclaw. Doctorate degree in 1980 and habilitation in 1995. Professor's title in 2007. The scientific interests cover the whole of vascular surgery, especially the surgical treatment of cerebral ischemia, venous disease. Author 275 publication, editor of 1 book, author of 4 chapters (including two in Germany). He is the promoter of 6 doctoral dissertations, he was assigned as reviewer of 28 doctoral dissertations, 2 habilitation , 1 professor title, and 9 specialization supervisor.

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Founding member of PTChN, President 2006-08. Founder and now President of Polish-German Vascular Society (1991).
In the years 2009-2014 national consultant of vascular surgery . Honorary Member of the Polish, German and Ukrainian Vascular Society. Organizer of many congresses and conferences of these Societies. Scholarships: Switzerland, Germany. Awarded with the Gold Cross of Merit and the Knight's Cross of the Polonia Restituta Order.

Dr. Maciej Dryjski received his medical degree from the Medical University of Warsaw and PhD from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. He trained in general surgery at Karolinska Hospital, Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and completed fellowship in vascular surgery at the University at South Florida in Tampa. In 1994 he accepted position at the University at Buffalo where he held multiple leadership positions. Currently, he is a Professor and Vice Chairman in the Department of Surgery and Director of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at Kaleida Health, the largest healthcare provider in Western New York.

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Dr. Dryjski is the current president of the Association of International Vascular Surgeons, past president of the Western New York Vascular Society, Buffalo Surgical Society and Western New York Chapter of the American College of Surgeon. He published extensively, served on the editorial board of several journals and participated in multiple clinical trials with new EVAR and TEVAR devices.

Born in Poland, I started medical school in 1979 in Warsaw. In 1982, I immigrated to France and continued the medical studies at the University Rene Descartes in Paris, Faculty of Medicine - CHU Necker-Enfants Malades, where I earned the MD title in 1991. In 1992 I have successfully defended my PhD Thesis in Medicine (thesis president: Pr. Amstutz) on «Neuro-meningal listeriosis in the adult population», with a Jury distinction of a Bronze Medal. I also obtained a Master’s Degree in Statistic Methodology and Statistics in Clinical Research at University Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris (2002) and completed a Fellowship in Phlebology obtaining a Board certification in Phlebology in 2007 at the University Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris: Faculty of Medicine - CHU Pitié Salpetrière.

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For 15 years I worked in the Institut de Recherches Internationales SERVIER in Paris, as Operational Assistant for Poland, Secretary of French-Polish Association of Angiology (AFPA), Scientific Project Leader, Project Director and Chair of Division for Therapy of Vascular Diseases.

In 2007 I moved to the United Sates and joined Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. I worked first as Study Coordinator in Cardiovascular Research in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, than as Research Fellow in the Division of Hypertension and Nephrology (Department of Internal Medicine) and more recently as Research Collaborator, of the Gonda Vascular Center, Division of Vascular Medicine. I also served as Consultant of the American Venous Forum (AVF). My most distinguished awards include National award in physiology contest for medical students in Poland, (1981), Honorary Membership of French College of Vascular Pathology (2008), Department of Medicine Outstanding Research Fellow Award (Mayo Clinic, 2011) and Distinguished Fellow AVF Award (2016).

I am author or coauthor 17 peer reviewed publications and 6 books chapters. I have also worked as assistant editor of the Handbook of Venous and Lymphatic Disorders (2009 and 2016).

Peter Gloviczki, MD, FACS, is the Roberts Professor of Surgery (Emeritus) of the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. He served as Division Chair (2000 -2010) and Director of the Mayo Clinic Gonda Vascular Center (2002 – 2010). He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Vascular Surgery. He earned his medical degree at Semmelweis Medical University in Budapest, Hungary. He is author or co-author of 435 peer-reviewed articles, over 200 book chapters, edited 11 textbooks and has given over 600 presentations.

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He is Past President of the the Society for Vascular Surgery, the World Federation of Vascular Societies, American Venous Forum, the Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery and the International Union of Angiology. He is honorary member of the the Polish Surgical Society and the Polish Society for Vascular Surgery .

Prof. W. Kostewicz specialist in the field of general, laparoscopic and vascular surgery. Academic treacher at the Medical University of Warsaw for more than 30 years. He belongs to the Scientific Councils of the Main Library of Medicine, as well as the jorunals Acta Angiologica and The Physician's Review (pol. Przegląd Lekarski). Supervisor of the Academic Scientific Society of Surgery as well as cyclical student conferences organised under the name Surgical Thursdays. Expert of the State Examination Comission in the field of Vascular Surgery. Scientific achievements: 350 publications.

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He belongs to more than 20 national and international scientific societies and is one of the founding members of the Polish Society of Vascular Surgery. Between 2003 and 2015, Secretary and Vice President of the Warsaw Branch of the Polish Surgery Society. Since 2014, judge of the Supreme Medical Court. Between 2014 and 2016, president of the Polish Angiological Society and treasurer since 2011. Since 2015, president of the Polish Medical Association.

Dr. Alan Lumsden received his medical degree with honors from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland in 1981. He completed his internship in General Surgery at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He then moved to the United States, completing his General Surgery residency, clinical and research fellowships in Vascular Surgery at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia.
In 1991, Dr. Lumsden accepted a position as an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Department of Surgery at Emory University School of Medicine. In 1998, Dr. Lumsden became Director of the Emory Endovascular Training Center and the Emory Venous Clinic in Atlanta.

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He was appointed Head of General Vascular Surgery at Emory University School of Medicine in March 1999, where he served until November 2001. In December 2001 Dr. Lumsden was named Professor and Chief, Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine. In, January 2008, Dr. Lumsden was named Professor and Chairman, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center and in January 2009, Dr. Lumsden was named Medical Director of the Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas.

Dr. Lumsden has developed an international reputation as a leader in the field of endovascular surgery. His work has resulted in numerous scientific articles, abstracts, books, book chapters and presentations.

Dr. Lumsden’s clinical expertise is in stent graft treatment of thoracic and abdominal aortic aneurysmal disease, stenting and endarterectomy in carotid arterial disease, renovascular hypertension, aortoialic occlusive disease, mesenteric vascular and minimally invasive therapy in venous disease. His research interests are in restenosis and developing newer methods of minimally invasive therapy.

General & vascular surgeon specialist, angiologist, academic teacher, head of the Academic Department of General and Vascular Surgery; 2008 - 2016 Vice-Rector of Poznań University of Medical Sciences. Since 2008 the Director of the Center for Medical Education in English; 2002 - 2008 Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Medicine II. Since 2006 Regional Consultant in vascular surgery in Wielkopolska; 2014 - 2016 President of the Polish Society of Vascular Surgery. He is involved in international research of the morphological, genetic and biomechanical pathology of thoracic and abdominal aortic aneurysms.

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Also his scientific and profesional interest are: use of angiogenic therapy in patients with chronic limb ischemia, use the allografts in patients with vascular prosthetics infection, endovascular treatment of peripheral vascular diseases, pathophysiology of chronic venous insufficiency and treatment of angioedema in patients with chronic limb ischemia, chronic wounds.

Since October 1975 he was employed as a trainee assistant apprenticeship at the Clinic of Vascular Surgery directed by professor Klemens Skóra. Having finished the postgraduate apprenticeship, he continued working at the above mentioned clinic as an assistant. In 1984 he has got specialisation in general surgery and than in 2003 specialisation in vascular surgery and angiology. The Ph.D. degree in medical sciences he gained in 1984 on the basis of the thesis: Assessment of consequences of ischaemia of a limb caused by injury of the artery with the use of physical and biochemical methods.

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In 1985 he was appointed the position of an associate professor. At the turn of the years 1981/82 dr Rybak completed training in surgery in the National Hospital of Norway „Rikshospitalet” in Oslo. For six months he worked at the cardiosurgery ward managed by professor Wiktor Hall, the pioneer of the method of venous femoral-knee by-pass „In situ”, the constructor of the heart valve „Hall-Custer”. For the next 9 months the candidate worked at the Gastroenterological Surgery Department, Organ Transplantation, Endocrinological Surgery and Pediatric Surgery directed by professor Audun Flatmark, the chairman of the Norwegian Surgeons’ Society at that time. At that time he was interested in kidney transplants taking part in extracting and transplanting 45 kidneys. The experience gained by dr Rybak was exploited by him in preparing the Vascular Surgery Clinic in Wrocław for starting kidney transplants. While carrying out the training in Norway, dr Rybak went through a course of microsurgery under the direction of professor Sun Lee from San Diego. In 1985 the candidate spent 2 months in the United States of America, where he had an opportunity to get acquainted with the functioning of surgical wards in New York and the National Health Institute Bethesda near Washington. In New York he stayed at the cardiac ward managed by professor David Bregman, co-designer of the aortic pump for supporting heart beating. In 1993 dr Rybak participated in two academic trainings. One at the University of Achen, where he was acquainted with the surgical treatment of vascular deseases in the ward directed by professor Siegfried’a von Bary and the second one in Paris – an intensive course of practical phlebology under the guidance of professor Michel Perrin. In 1995 he defended his postdoctoral dissertation entitled: Own method of diagnosing illnesses of the venous system of lower limbs. Since 2010 professor Zbigniew Rybak has been the Head of the Department for Experimental Surgery and Biomaterials’ Research of the Medical University in Wrocław. In the years 2012 and 2013 he took part in the Polish-American Forum VAIL concerning cooperation in the field of computerization of medical processes and regeneration medicine. During these meetings he presented a paper on regeneration medicine. In 2014 he stayed at the University of Arizona as a visiting professor where he delivered a lecture on the role of nanohydroxyapatite in regeneration medicine.

Present position

Position	Consultant / member of the staff
Name of institution or organization	Department of Vascular Surgery, St. Franziskus-Hospital
Start date	2008

Main university degree

Name of university/institute	University of Münster
Degree	Medical Approvement
City & country	Münster / Germany
Year of graduation	1999

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Name of university/institute	Qualification	City & country	Dates of attendance
Ärztekammer Westfalen Lippe	Acquisition for the section ”Vascular Surgery”	Münster / Germany	19.07.2008
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gefäßchirurgie und Gefäßmedizin	Qualification “Endovascular specialist”	Berlin / Germany	2009

Previous appointments

Position	Institution/organization	City & country	Dates
Resident	Raphaelsklinik Münster, Department of General and Visceral Surgery	Münster / Germany	1999 - 2001
Resident	Department of Vascular Surgery, St. Franziskus-Hospital	Münster / Germany	2001 - 2008

Dr Serino MD graduated with honors in 1983 by the Catholic University School of Medicine in Rome and completed his residency in general Surgery in 1987 by the Department of Surgery of the University of Rome “la Sapienza”. He became in 1987 Assistant professor of Surgery at the Catholic University, working in the department of Substitutive and Transplantation Surgery of the University Hospital A. Gemelli in Rome, where he co-founded the first diabetic foot multi-disciplinary programs in Italy with Prof. Giovanni Ghirlanda.

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In 1989 he was invited as Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Texas of Houston, focused in a research and clinical transplantation program. He regained his position of Assistant professor of Surgery at The Catholic University Hospital in Rome where he focused on transplant and vascular surgery, founding the first endovascular program and running the multi-disciplinary program on Diabetic Foot in Rome. He joined in 1997 the Vascular Surgery department of the IDI Research Hospital in Rome and set up the endovascular program which lately directed : the center was pioneer in several fields, as the limb salvage and diabetic foot care, aortic endograft surgery , hybrid techniques and gene therapy, launching the first clinical research program on therapeutic angiogenesis. He accounted more than 3000 vascular interventions, was site principal Investigator of 12 clinical research projects, completed 221 publications and presented as faculty in 147 national or international meetings. On research side, he is Scientific Director of the Explora Research Laboratory in Rome since 2010, where he has inspired and directed several European Funded International Projects on Cardio Vascular Tissue Engineering and regenerative medicine ( total fund raising of 17 mil euro) . He was elected Associate Professor, Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Institute, Composite and Biomedical Materials CNR National Center for Research in 2013 and served as Adjunct Professor and Visiting Professor at NTU,School of Material Science and Engineering of Singapore in 2008-2009 and 2013-2014 . In July 2014 he joined the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi as Consultant Vascular Surgeon. His major clinical interest has always been in Critical Limb Ischemia Treatment and Diabetic Foot Salvage, to which most of the articles, lectures and clinical activity has been devoted.

Prof. Walerian Staszkiewicz was born in 1947. Medical Education in WarsawMedical University diploma in 1970. Postgraduate training in first SurgicalClinic under Prof. Jan Nielubowicz. Specialist in general surgery - Ist.1974, IIst. 1979, specialist in vascular surgery 2002, angiology 2003. 1989Associated professor in department of General Surgery and ThoracicDiseases. Since 1995 Head of Department of Vascular Surgery and AngiologyIn Medical Centre for Postgraduate Education. 1999 to 2002 Director of Medical Centre for Postgraduate Education.

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Professor Walerian Staszkiewicz is acredited author in over 250 publications and 12 chapters of books. Member of many scientific societes and abroad. Scientific Interest: new technics in endovascular interventions, surgery for extracranial cereblar vessers, infections in vascular surgery, influence of antiplateled resistance on vascular diseases and durability of vascular interventions. He recived several honourable awards including Honorary Membership of Polish Society of Vascular Surgery. Wife Jolanta (ophtalmologist), daughter Margaret (clinical psychologist) and three fantastic grandchildren in his free time: art and garden.

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Wojciech Witkiewicz, Professor of the Department of Vascular Surgery at Wrocław Medical University. He is a Director of the Regional Specialist Hospital in Wrocław (since 1990) and Head of the Department of General and Vascular Surgery (since 1984). He received Doctor Honoris Causa from the Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences. He has organized the 64th Jubilee Congress of the Association of Polish Surgeons (in the 120 anniversary) which was accompanied by first demonstration of the da Vinci Surgical System. As the result of efforts of Prof. Witkiewicz the Regional Specialist Hospital was the first medical facility in Poland equipped in the da Vinci Robotic System (in 2010).

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Professor Wojciech Witkiewicz performed also the first 100 robotic operations. He has organized the Polish Society of Robotic Surgery in 2010 and became its President. In 2012 and 2016 he was the initiator of the International Congress of the Polish Society of Robotic Surgery in Wrocław. He cooperated with the leaders of regenerative medicine from Yale and Duke University and participated in the Humacyte project – first implantation of a blood vessel into a patient that was grown outside the body. The Regional Specialist Hospital in Wrocław conducted 36 implantations of lab-grown vessels and this was the largest number of such operations performed in one medical center.

Born 03. Aug.1960 in Lublin, Poland
1985- MD, Medical University, Lublin, Poland
1998- PhD, Medical University, Lublin, Poland
From 2007 – Ass.Prof. of Vascular Surgery, Medical University, Lublin, Poland
Speciality:
1989- I degree in general surgery,
1993- II degree in general surgery,
2003 – vascular surgery,
2004– angiology.

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Prizes:
1996 – nomination for Dos Santos Prize, ESCVS, Venice, Italy,
2002 – Węgłowski Prize, Polish Society of Angiology, Kraków, Poland
2004 - Dos Santos Prize, ESCVS, Ljubljana, Slovenija
2006 - nomination for Dos Santos Prize, ESCVS, Sankt Petersburg, Russia
2008 – Winner of Polish Edition The Future of Sutures, B.Braun
2002, 2008, 2012 Medical University Rector’s Prizes
Publications: 134 papers, 156 oral presentations,
IF –17,39,
101 citations, Hirsch Index 5
Functions:
2003-2010 – Head of Department of Vascular Surgery and Angiology, Medical University, Lublin, Poland,
From 2014 Head of Department of Vascular Surgery in District Hospital, Lublin, Poland,
Functions In Societes:
1998-2000 – Treasurer of Polish Angiological Society,
2010-2012 – President of Polish Angiological Society
Trainings:
1997 - Clinique G. Bizet, Hopital Rosearie, Paris, France
1998 - Hopital H. Mondor, Creteil, France
Member of Societes:
Lubelskie Towarzystwo Naukowe, Polskie Towarzystwo Chirurgii Naczyniowej, Polskie Towarzystwo Angiologiczne, Towarzystwo Chirurgów Polskich, Polskie Towarzystwo Flebologiczne, Polsko-Niemieckie Towarzystwo Chirurgów Naczyniowych, Polsko-Francuskie Towarzystwo Chirurgii Naczyniowej, European Society for Vascular Surgery, International Society for Vascular Surgery