Piotr Wegrzyn

Education and Experience

 

1999 – 2005    Jagiellonian University, Collegium Medicum - Faculty of Medicine, Krakow, Poland (one semester at Charite University, Berlin, Germany) 

31.08.2005     university degree ( MD degree ) 10.2005 – 11.2006  internship in Department of the Interior and Administration  Hospital, Krakow, Poland 

2008 - 2019  job and training in cardiac surgery in Department of Cardiovascular  Surgery & Transplantology , Institute of Cardiology,     Jagiellonian  University;  John Paul II  Hospital, Krakow, Poland 

21.05.2015  PhD degree of Medical Sciences. Theme: “ Evaluation of the effectiveness ( in vitro ) of the selected cAMP phosphodiesterase inhibitors in radial artery predilatation of patients who underwent coronary bypass surgery” 18.03.2016  title of a specialist in cardiosurgery

     

Science achievements

 

01.04.2005 – 31.07.2005  Erasmus/Socrates Scholarship - one semester at Charite University   , Faculty of Medicine, Berlin, Germany

2002 – 2006  membership of Students’ Cardiosurgical Scientific Circle, Department      of Cardiovascular  Surgery &Transplantology , Institute of Cardiology     , Jagiellonian University;  John Paul II Hospital, Krakow. 

2003 - 2005  membership of Students’ Cardilogical Scientific Circle, Department of Cardiology, Institute of Cardiology, Jagiellonian University;  John Paul II Hospital, Krakow

26.04.2004, Krakow  member of organizing committee of  1-st International Cardiology and     Cardiosurgery Conference“ New Approach to Heart Disease Treatment”  

2005 – 2018  Participation in cardiothoracic and cardiac congresses in Poland and other European countries

 First author and co-author of over twenty publications ( most of them available on-line in PubMed ) 

22.05.2010  First Award for the thesis entitled: “ Corotrope or Papaverine – in pharmacological predilatation of radial artery ( in vitro ) in patients who underwent coronary artery bypass surgery” delivered during a session     of the V Congress of the Polish Society of the Cardio – Thoracic Surgeons in Poznan, Poland.            

 

Additional trainings and courses

 

1. Medical College 

 23.08.2004 – 03. 09.2004    training in general surgery and heart surgery, University Hospital Innsbruck,  Austria 

 15.07 – 30. 07.2004 training in gynecology , University Hospital , Ljubljana, Slovenia 

 30.07.2003 – 25.08.2003     training in emergency, Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey  BLS course – Emergency School at Department of Emergency , CM UJ, Krakow    

 

2. Postgraduate:   

 

 ●   2010 ALS course – certified by European Resuscitation Council   

 ●   2001 EACTS School – Cardiac Level A , Bergamo, Italy ( EACTS scholarship ) 

 2012 Surgical treatment of aortic valve and aorta diseases, Wendish Rietz, Germany 

 2012 Fundamentals in Cardiac Surgery Part II, Windsor, United Kingdom

 

Job skills:

- CABG surgery    

 - AVR and MVR surgery 

- assist to aorta repair operations 

- assist to MIAVR and MIDCAB surgery

 - assist to HTX and NTX 

- assist to vascular surgery

 

Membership in societies:

- EACTS

 - PTK ( Polish Society for Cardiology )

Knowledge of foreign languages

 English 

 German 

 Polish – national language

  

Other skills

 

 2007  Completed course in ultrasonography – certified by Polish Society  of  Ultrasonography

 2007 Completed course in echocardiography – certified by Polish Society  of  Ultrasonography 

 2018 Completed practical courses and trainings in vascular ultrasonography   – certified by Polish Society of  Ultrasonography

 

Interests

Medical: heart and vascular surgery. Others: rock and classical music, literature, climbing, tourism, computers