MD, PhD Tomasz piontek

Graduated from Medical University of Poznań. Obtained his first degree of specialisation in orthopaedics and traumatology in 1999, four years later he obtained his second degree of specialisation, in 2005 he defended his doctoral thesis, and in 2015 he was awarded a postdoctoral degree. Tomasz Piontek is an international trainer of surgical techniques for knee and hip arthroscopy.

Tomasz Piontek has been an orthopaedic surgeon at Rehasport in Poznań since 2006. He previously worked, among others, at the Children's Orthopaedic Clinic in Poznań, was the first doctor of the Amica Wronki football team, and then held the same position at Lech Poznań. He has completed internships at the Balgrist University Clinic in Zurich, the Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine Traumatology at Queens Medical Centre in the UK, and the University of Pittsburgh Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in the USA.

He is the author of modern surgical techniques such as articular cartilage and meniscus regeneration (AMIC).

Membership of Societies: Member of the Polish Orthopaedic and Traumatological Society, Member of the Spondyloarthopaedic Section PTO & Tr, Member of the Knee Surgery Section PTO & Tr, Member of the Paediatric Orthopaedic Section PTO & Tr, Member of the Medical Committee of the Polish Football Association, Member of the Polish Society of Sports Traumatology, Member of ESSKA, Member of ISAKOS, Member of ISHA, Member of ESSKA AFAS.

• 2006 Chief Medical Officer of UEFA European Under-19 Championship, Poznań
• 2006 Orthomedica, Rehasport Clinic
• 2003-2004 NZOZ Bamberski Dwór, Poznań
• 2003 Department of Endoscopic Surgery, Poznań
• 2006 1st Doctor of the football team KKS Lech
• 2003-2006 First Doctor of the Amica Wronki Football Team
• 2000 Private orthopaedic practice
• 1997-2000 ATP Polish Open Tennis Tournament Doctor
• 1999- 2002 Assistant at the Grunwald Clinic - MD, Ph.D. T. Trzaska
• 1997-1999 Ars Medica Assistant - T. Trzaska, - MD, Ph.D.
• 1999 Assistant at the Department of Paediatric Orthopaedics in Poznań
• 1997-1999 Junior Assistant at the Department of Paediatric Orthopaedics in Poznań

Education:

• Poznan University of Medical Sciences
• 2015 Degree of Doctor of Medical Sciences
• 2005 Degree of Doctor of Medical Sciences on the basis of the presented Doctoral Dissertation "The influence of pelvic osteotomy according to Chiari on the coverage of the femoral head - clinical and radiological considerations"
• 2003 Second Degree Specialisation in Orthopaedics and Traumatology
• 1999 First Degree Specialisation in Orthopaedics and Traumatology
• 1995 Doctor of Medicine Diploma

Internships abroad:

• 2012 Trainer on the Knee Course, North Star, England
• 2012 Trainer on the Ankle Course, North Star, England
• 2011 Trainer on the Hip Arthroscopy Course, York, S&N
• 2010 Hip Arthroscopy Course February London Richard Villar
• 2008 February. Hip Arthroscopy. Vail Collorado. USA
• Department of Orthopeadic Surgery University of Amsterdam. ESSKA 2000 Scholarship with Prof. Niek Van Dijk.
• Menaflex Training Course of Joune 20,2008, Medical University of Insbruck, Austria
• 2007 March. Boston, Vermont. USA Acl reconstruction, Hip Arthroscopy Cource. Smith&Nephew
• 2006 September. 3rd International Advanced Cours on Surgical knee arthroscopy. Tours, France
• 2005 September Oxford Unicompartment Knee Advanced Instructional Resource
• 2004 June 2 week stay, British Columbia University Canada. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
• 2003 August, 2 week stay, University of Pittsburgh Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. USA
• 2000 July, 4-week stay in the Clinic of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Sports Medicine,
  Queens Medical Centre Nothingham, United Kingdom
• 1999 July, 4-week stay in the Clinic of University Balgrist, Zurich, Switzerland

• XXIII Symposium of Paediatric Orthopaedics, 23-25 May 2013, Ustroń
• XII Bieszczady Medical Conference 11-13 May 2013, Rudna Mała (speaker)
• 9th ISAKOS Congress, 11-16 May 2013, Toronto, Canada (speaker)
• Great Expectations Stryker, 23.04 (coach)
• 15th ESSKA 2000 Congress 3-5. 05. 2012 Geneva
• ICRS 12-15.05.2012 Montreal Canada
• European Expert Meeting, Arthroscopic Surgical Approaches for AMIC® with Chondro-Gide®,24th September 2011, Regensburg, Germany
• Modern methods of meniscus and articular cartilage treatment March 3-5, Poznań, Poland,
• 1st ISHA Internationac Conference October 2010 Cancun, Mexico,
• 14th ESSKA Congress, 9-12 June 2010, Oslo, Sweden.
• Vail Hip Arthroscopy Symposium February 14-16, Marc J. Philippon,
• 3rd international Hip Arthroscopy Meeting 21-22 November.
• 25th EPOS MEETING 2006, 5 -8 April, Dresden, Germany,
• 12th ESSKA 2000 Congress, May 24-27, Innsbruck, Austria,
• Update in knee surgery, Heidelberg 8-9 September, Knee surgery. Tours France 2006.
• 5 th ICACOS Congress, Hollywood, Florida, USA, 3-7 April,
• SICOT/SIROT 2005 XXIII World Congress. 2-9.09.
• 11th ESSKA 2000 Congress, 4th World Congress on Sports Trauma, Athens, Greece May 5-8.
• ISAKOS Congress, Auckland, New Zealand, 10-14 March,
• VII. COST National Congress, Brno 23-26. March,
• Attended the ESSKA - instructional course, Poznań, 10-12 October.
• 10th Congress European Society of Sport Traumatology, Knee Surgery And Arthroscopy , Rome, 23 - 27 April,
• Principles of Operative Fracture Treatment, Warsaw, 21 - 23 October,
• IX Instructional Course Lectures of EFFORT, Cracow, 24 - 26 October.
• 20th EPOS MEETING 2001, 5 -7 April, Montpellier, France,
• First Biennial Meeting of European Tissue Society - Symposium of the International Cartilage Repair Society, Freiburg, Germany, November 7-10.
• 3rd Symposium "Cartilage and Cartilage Reapair in the New Millenium" Goteborg, Sweden, 27-29 April.