Wojciech G. Polak, MD, Ph.D. Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Editorial Board
Wojciech Polak MD, PhD graduated in medicine “cum laude” at the Medical University in Wroclaw (Poland) in 1992. Between 1992 and 1993 he finished his internship in Klinikum Innestadt in Munich (Germany). From 1994 until 2000 he was a resident in general surgery at the Department of Vascular, General and Transplantation Surgery at the University Hospital in Wroclaw, where he was appointed as a consultant surgeon after his training. In 1998 he defended his PhD thesis at the Medical University in Wroclaw. Between 2001 and 2003 he completed surgical fellowship in hepatobiliary surgery and liver transplantation at the Department of Surgery at the University Medical Center in Groningen, the Netherlands. After completion of his fellowship he returned to Poland to participate in kidney and liver transplant program at the Medical University in Wroclaw. In 2006 he worked as a consultant surgeon in hepatobiliary and transplant surgery at the Department of Surgery at the University Medical Center in Groningen. Since 2007 he is certified transplant surgeon at the European Board of Surgeons. In 2008 he defended his PhD thesis entitled “Technical aspects of liver transplantation” at the University of Groningen. The same year he was appointed as Associated Professor at the Medical University in Wroclaw. Since September 2009 Dr. Wojciech Polak works as a consultant transplant and hepatobiliary surgeon at the Department of Surgery at the Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In 2015 he was awarded with Honorary Diploma of European Board of Surgery (UEMS) in Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery. Currently he is Surgical Director of Liver Transplant Program at Erasmus MC. His clinical and scientific area of expertise is liver transplantation and hepatobiliary surgery.