Scientific degree: MD prof. dr hab.
Scientific position : professor
Department: Department of Pediatric Surgery and Organ Transplantation
OrcID No: 0000-0003-0555-2229
Biography:
- specialist in pediatric transplantation and clinical transplantation
- full profesor and Head of the Department of Pediatric Surgery and Organ Transplantation in the Children’s Memorial Health Institute(CMHI) in Warsaw
- active member of Scientiffic Committee of the Institute
- active member of National Transplant Board (previously for many years its chairman)
- in the past: national Consultant in pediatric surgery
- representative of the CMHI in the Board of TransplantChild within the European Reference Network
- member of the steering committee of PLUTO (Pediatric Unresectable Liver Tumor Observatory)
- member of several editorial boards of polish and international journals, eg. Pediatric Transplantation, European Journal of Pediatric Surgery, Annals of Transplantation and other
- author of 300 full text publications ( 67 with IF), wrote 2 books, and 49 chapters and editor of 3 textbooks
Other qualifications and achievements:
- performed first successful liver transplantation, as well as first liver transplantation from the living donor, first combined liver and kidney transplantation, and first multiorgan lilver, intestine, pancreas transplantation in Poland
- introduced in Poland pp65 CMV antigen monitoring as well as EBV viremia monitoring in organ transplant recipients
- developed own modifications of surgical procedure for total colon aganglionosis and renal autotransplantation for renovascular hypertension.
Research interests:
- hepatobiliary and pancreas surgery in children
- abdominal organs transplantation in children
- primary liver tumors in children
- long term pathomorphology of transplanted liver
- vascular surgery in children
- Hirschsprung’s disease and other intestinal motor disturbances
Contact:
e-mail: p.kalicinski@ipczd.pl