Prof. Przemysław lubiatowski

Graduate of the Poznan Medical University. Obtained his first degree of specialisation in orthopaedics and traumatology in 1998, defended his doctoral thesis one year later and obtained his second degree of specialisation in 2003. In 2012 he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Habilitation.

Przemysław Lubiatowski is a physician, medical director of Rehasport and member of the Board of Directors. He is the head of the Traumatology and Sports Biomechanics Laboratory in the Department of Traumatology, Orthopaedics and Hand Surgery at Poznań University of Medical Sciences. Przemysław Lubiatowski has also served as Chairman of the Shoulder and Elbow Surgery Section of the Polish Orthopaedic and Traumatological Society and President of the Polish Shoulder and Elbow Society.

Przemysław Lubiatowski has completed internships at several medical centres in the United States (Clevlend, Pittsburg and Rockford Orthopedic Associates) as well as in Edinburgh, Paris and Vienna. He was a fellow of the Kosciuszko Foundation and the European Society for Shoulder and Elbow Surgery.

Membership: Polish Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Polish Society of Hand Surgery, European Society of Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons, European Societies of Wrist Arthroscopy, Federation of European Societies of Hand Surgery.

Hobbies: sport (windsurfing, skiing, tennis), music, running.

Positions:

• head of Department IIC at the Department of Hand Surgery, Poznań University of Medical Sciences (2008-2015)
• assistant Professor at the Chair and Department of Traumatology, Orthopaedics and Hand Surgery (current)
• manager of the Rehasport Clinic (current)
• chairman of the Shoulder and Elbow Surgery Section of the Polish Orthopaedic and Traumatological Society (2010-2014)
• member of the Eastern Europe Committee European Society of Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (2010-2014)
• chair of the Eastern Europe Committee European Society of Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (2014-present)
• National Delegate European Society of Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons secretary of the Poznan Branch of the Polish Orthopaedic and Traumatological Society (2003-2006)
• president of the Polish Shoulder and Elbow Society (2016-present)
• Member of the European Society of Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (2014-present)
• corresponding member in the journal International Orthopaedics
• member of the scientific network of the European Handball Federation
• member of the Editorial Committee of EFORT Open Reviews

• Assistant, Department of Traumatology, Orthopaedics and Hand Surgery, Poznań Medical University
• Department of Endoscopic Surgery, Poznań NZOZ Chirurgia Poznańska
• NZOZ Orthomedica

• Poznan University of Medical Sciences
• Graduated from Karol Marcinkowski Pozań University of Medical Sciences in Poznań (1995-1999)
• doctoral degree in medical sciences - 1999
• dissertation entitled. "Value of periosteum, cartilage and bone marrow grafts in experimental articular cartilage reconstruction"
• Specialisation: 1st degree in orthopaedics and traumatology - 1998; specialist degree in orthopaedics and traumatology - 2003
• Postdoctoral degree: Influence of selected factors on the outcome of surgical treatment of rotator cuff injuries - a clinical and experimental study; 2011

Internships abroad:

• Experimental microsurgery
• Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland Ohio, USA, 9 months, 2000, under the direction of Dr Maria Siemionow MD, PhD, DSc
  Gene therapy in plastic and reconstructive surgery
  Nerve regeneration and reconstruction
  Microcirculation
  Shoulder, elbow and hand surgery
• Scholarship at University of Edinburgh, UK, 2 months, 2002, Dr Julie McBirnie; Dr Geoffrey Hooper
• insitute de la Main, Paris, prof. Alain Gilbert, Dr Philippe Valenti, Dr Christophe Mathoulin

Shoulder arthroscopy

• Vienna, Austria, 02.2001, Orthopadishe Spital, under the direction of Dr Franz Landsiedl,
• Internation Travelling Fellowship of the European Society of Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons: Annency (Dr Laurant Lafosse), Reading (Dr Ofer Levy), Amsterdam (Dr Jaap Willems),
• Nottingham (prof. Angus Wallace), Zurich (prof. Christian Gerber), Nice (prof. Pascal Boileau), Milan (Dr Alessandro Castagna)
• Department of Orthopaedics, Pittsburgh Universtiy, United States, under the direction of Dr. J. K. K., Director of the Department of Orthopaedics, Pittsburgh Universtiy, United States. Dr Frieddi Fu
• Rockford Orthopedic Associates, United States, Dr Scott Trenhaile

Cartilage reconstruction

• Gothenburg, Sweden, 04.1999, Cartilage Research Unit, under the direction of Dr. Mats Brittberg

Scholarships:

• kościuszko Foundation Scholarship - research fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (2000)
• Polish Memorial Fund grant from the University of Edinburgh (2001)
• Scholarship of the European Society for Surgery of the Shoulder and the Elbow (travelling fellowship)

• Orthopaedic Days in Konin 1999, member of the organising committee
• Congress of the Polish Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology in Poznań 2008, member of the organizing and scientific committee
• Congress of the Polish Association for Hand Surgery in Poznań 1995, member of the organising committee
• Congress of the Polish Association of Hand Surgery in Konin 2008, member of the organizing and scientific committee
• Conference 90 years of Polish Orthopaedics in Poznań, 2003, member of the organising committee,
• 3 international Courses on Shoulder, Elbow and Wrist Surgery in Poznań under PTOiTr, PTChR, EWAS, SECEC, FESSH; 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016- one of the main organizers, and since 2013- chairman of the organizing and scientific committee
• congress of the Federation of European Societies for Surgery of the Hand in Poznań 2009;
• deputy head of the organizing committee, member of the scientific committee
  scientific and training meetings of the Poznan Branch of PTOiTr (2003-2006) - 20 meetings, one of the main organizers
• 50th Treatment of Orthopaedics in the Land of Konin, 2010, member of the organising committee
• SECEC course Bucharest 2017- chairman of the organizing and scientific committee

Teaching activities:

• classes with students of Poznań University of Medical Sciences (medical, nursing, physiotherapy, English-speaking faculty)
• Tutor of the research club at the Department of Hand Surgery, Poznań University of Medical Sciences
• supervisor of master's theses (2 completed, 1 in progress) and bachelor's theses (3 completed, 2 in progress)
• head of specialisation (3 doctors)
  invited lectures
• scientific reviewer for the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery
• instructor for arthroscopy and endoprosthesis courses

Courses and Certificates

• First prize of the Polish Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology for a doctoral thesis
• award of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand: Sumner L. Koch Award at 2001 Annual Meeting of American Society for Surgery of the Hand in Blatimore, MD., "the greatest future clinical application to the practice of hand surgery." For paper: Epineural Sleeve Technique for Nerve Grafts Enhances Functional Recovery of Sciatic Nerve, Przemyslaw Lubiatowski, MD, PhD, Faik M. Unsal, MD, Dileep Nair, MD, Maria Siemionow, MD, PhD
• first co-author award at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Ohio Valley Society for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 8-10.06. 2001
• First place at the congress of the Polish Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology for a poster entitled "Suture of the nerve with pressure relief of the anastomotic site", W. Manikowski, L. Romanowski, P. Nawrot, P. Lubiatowski
• award at the congress of the Polish Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology for a poster entitled "Neoplasms and notworn diseases of the upper limb in the material of the Clinic"; W. Manikowski, L. Romanowski, L. Kaczmarek, P. Lubiatowski
• Rector's awards of the Poznań University