Dr. Marek Krol, Heart Surgery - Katowice, Poland

Position:

Head of Hospital Department – Specialist in Cardiology;

Vice-President of the Board of Directors

First Department of Cardiology and Angiology (Vascular Medicine)

Professional Experience:

• Junior lecturer in the Third Clinic of Cardiology in the Medical University of Silesia - 1992
• Diagnostic procedures in the Hemodynamic Laboratory in the Upper Silesian Medical Center in Katowice - 1994
• Performed the therapeutic procedures being the first in Poland to introduce the access technique with the radial artery puncture method
• Senior lecturer in the Third Clinic of Cardiology in the Medical University of Silesia
• Hemodynamic duties in the First Department of Cardiology and Angiology (Vascular Medicine) of the Polish-American Heart Clinics
• Coronary angioplasty procedures at Voivodeship Specialist Hospital in Lublin, Military Clinical Hospital in Wrocław, Voivodeship Specialist Hospital and Lower Silesian Specialist Hospital in Wrocław
• Entered into the office of Head of the First Department of Cardiology and Angiology (Vascular Medicine) in Ustroń, component part of the Polish-American Heart Clinics

Accomplishments:

• Dr. Marek Krol was the first in Poland to conduct a retrograde thrombendarterectomy procedure of the right coronary artery gaining access through collateral circulation vessels from the side of the left coronary artery.

Awards and distinctions:

• Award from the Polish Cardiac Society for a publication in the European Heart Review - 2006
• Award from the Minister of health for a publication in the Journal of American College of Cardiology - 2009