Committees
Steering Committee
Prof. Halina Podbielska, MD
Head of the Congress Steering Committee
Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology, Department of Biomedical Engineering Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Prof. Halina Podbielska holds a diverse background in physics, medicine, and biomedical engineering. She earned her M.Sc. in Applied Physics and Ph.D. in Physics from Wrocław University of Technology, followed by an M.D. from Wrocław Medical University. With her habilitation in Physics in 1992, she became a Professor of Bio-Optics and led the Bio-Optics Group at the Institute of Physics. In 2007, she played a key role in founding the Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation, where she served as Director.
Her expertise spans optics, biomedical optics, optoelectronics, and biomedical engineering, focusing on applications in medical lasers, nanomaterials, and biometrics. Prof. Podbielska has published over 230 scientific works and holds 7 patents in medical optoelectronics. She has held visiting positions at leading institutions worldwide, including the University of Frankfurt, the Weizmann Institute, and Charité Medicine University in Berlin. As a prominent figure in biomedical optics, she founded the Polish journal *Acta Bio-Optica et Informatica Medica* and organized international conferences in her field.
Prof. Podbielska also contributes to various scientific committees, including those under the Polish Academy of Sciences, and serves as an expert for the EC Framework Programs. She supervises Ph.D. and M.Sc. students, many of whom have received awards for excellence.
Prof. Robert Iskander
Director of HealthTech Synergy Hub,
Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology. Department of Biomedical Engineering Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Prof. D. Robert Iskander works at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology, at the Wrocław University of Science and Technology. He defended his doctorate in 1997 (Queensland University of Technology, Australia), and obtained his habilitation in 2010 (Silesian University of Technology). In February 2021, he received the title of professor of engineering and technical sciences. His research mainly concerns signal and image processing methods and their application in ophthalmology, but he also deals with visual optics, optometric and ophthalmic instrumentation, applied statistics, applied mathematics, detection and estimation, and the bootstrap method. Prof. Iskander is the co-author of over 300 international scientific papers, including over 150 in peer-reviewed international journals. He is also the co-author of 13 international patents, mainly concerning the construction of contact lenses. He has supervised 23 PhDs to date, and currently supervises three more PhD students. Currently, he is the director of the HealthTech Synergy Hub and head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Since 2020, he has been a member of the Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Prof. Dariusz Jagielski, MD
Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Department of Non-surgical Clinical Sciences, Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology (WUST). He is the deputy head of the Cardiology Clinic of the Heart Disease Center at the 4th Military Clinical Hospital with Polyclinic in Wrocław. He finished his medical studies at Medical Academy in Wrocław (1992) – currently Wrocław Medical University. He was a medical adviser to the Rector of the WUST (2023). At present Dariusz Jagielski is an assistant professor of WUST.
His professional and scientific activity concerns electrophysiology, and more specifically, the introduction of modern medical technologies into clinical practice. Includes, among others: such issues as: implantation of electrodeless cardiac pacemakers, phrenic nerve stimulation in sleep apnea in people with heart failure, percutaneous removal of pacing systems, long-term ECG monitoring.
His most important scientific interests focus on arrhythmia – the use of non-invasive and invasive techniques in the prognosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias, implantable cardioverter defibrillators and resynchronisation therapy in heart failure, implantation of electronic devices to treat cardiac arrhythmias and heart failure, ablation techniques (3D) in the treatment of arrhythmias clinical and experimental research.
He has been educating doctors for almost 30 years, including: internists and cardiologists in the field of electrophysiology and cardiology. He is an active participant in scientific conferences and symposia as a lecturer, co-chairman of discussion panels and presenter of works. He takes part in the most important scientific events in the areas of medicine that are close to him in Poland and abroad, e.g. in India, Greece, Germany, Finland, Italy and the USA.
Programm Committee
Prof. Dariusz Łydżba
Vice-Rector for Research and Innovation
Faculty of Civil Engineering. Head of the Department of Geotechnics, Hydrotechnics, Underground and Water Construction
Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Prof. Piotr Młynarz
Vice-Rector for Organization and Infrastructure, Faculty of Chemistry. Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Prof. Tomasz Roleder, MD
Vice Dean for Clinical Affairs and Science, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Non-surgical Clinical Sciences, Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Prof. Joanna Rymaszewska, MD
Faculty of Medicine, Head of the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Prof. Joanna Rymaszewska, MD, is a specialist in psychiatry and heads the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at the Faculty of Medicine, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, formerly the Department and Clinic of Psychiatry at the Wroclaw Medical University, where she served twice as dean, senator and vice-dean for doctoral studies.
She is passionate about brain health and conducting scientific projects on methods of neurostimulation in mental disorders, mental problems in various somatic diseases, in old age, including dementia. She implements international scientific JPND projects (co-founded the Meeting Centre for people living with dementia on Ciepła in Wrocław) and MSC H2020 ITN, EU JPND Working Group, EU Cost Actions; author of >410 scientific publications, textbooks on mental disorders in somatic diseases, consultation-liaison psychiatry, brain neurostimulation, dementias. She organizes the annual national conference Psychiatry – Interdisciplinary Dialogues in Wrocław.
She is a member of the boards of scientific societies: European Association of Psychosomatic Medicine and the INTERDEM (Network of Researchers on Psychosocial Interventions in Dementia), member of Academia Europaea.
She has promoted 21 completed doctorates and 6 doctoral dissertations currently in progress. In 2024, her application in Industrial Doctorate Program was the highest rated in Poland and first on the list of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
Among the awards she has received, she considers as the most valuable the honourable title ACTIVE IN WALKING WITH DEPRESSION awarded by the Association Actively Against Depression, Warsaw (2019), the medal MERITO DE WRATISLAVIA 2022 and the title ‘ WROCŁAWIANKA ROKU 2022’ in the scientific-research category.
Prof. Waldemar Banasiak, MD
Chairman of the Council of the Scientific Discipline of Medical Sciences, Head of the Department of Non-Surgical Clinical Sciences Faculty of Medicine Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, WUST, Head of the Center for Heart Diseases 4th Clinical Military Hospital, National Consultant in the field of Cardiology
Faculty of Medicine at the Military Medical Academy in Łódź (1975-81)
Department of Internal Medicine 4. Military Clinical Hospital (4WSK) Wrocław (1984-96)
Head of the Department of Internal Medicine 4WSK (1996-2000)
Head of the Department of Cardiology 4WSK (2000-6)
Head of the Center for Heart Diseases at 4WSK in Wrocław (2006-7)
Director of the Military Institute of Medicine in Warsaw (2007)
Head of the Military Health Service Inspectorate (2007)
Head of the Heart Disease Center 4WSK in Wrocław (2007-)
Head of the Department of Non-Surgical Clinical Sciences and Chairman of the Medical Sciences Scientific Discipline Council at the Faculty of Medicine of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology (2023-)
Specialist in the field of internal medicine of the first and second degree and cardiology. In 1986 he defended his doctoral dissertation at the Medical University of Wrocław, and eight years later his habilitation thesis at the Faculty of Medicine of the Military Medical Academy in Łódź. He received the title of professor in 1999.
Supervisor of 2 habilitation dissertations and the supervisor of 13 doctoral dissertations. He reviewed 21 people for the title of professor, 13 habilitated doctor and 12 doctor of medicine. Member of many scientific and editorial boards.
President of the Polish Cardiac Society (2009-11). National Consultant in the field of Cardiology and the Chairman of the National Examination Board in Cardiology (2024-28). His scientific achievements include: 333 publications, IF 701, Hirsch index 40, citations: 6766. Author of 3 books and 35 book chapters. Member of the Polish and European Society of Cardiology.
Main research interests: heart failure, coronary artery disease, atrial fibrillation, cardio-oncology.
Prof. Adrian Doroszko, MD
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Non-surgical Clinical Sciences, Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Prof. Magdalena Kasprowicz
Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Magdalena Kasprowicz works at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology, at the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology in Poland. Since 2013, she has been leading the Neuroengineering laboratory BrainLab specializing in the measurement, analysis, and processing of signals derived from multimodal monitoring of the human central nervous system. Her research primarily explores the relationships between pressures, volumes, and flows in the brain using signal processing, machine learning techniques, and mathematical modelling. She gained experience during international internships at UCLA and the University of Cambridge in England. She has co-authored over 60 scientific papers published in journals listed on the Master Journal List. She has supervised completion of four doctoral theses and is currently mentoring three ongoing doctoral procedures. She has led multiple research projects funded by the National Science Centre in Poland and the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange. Additionally, she has received scholarships from the Foundation for Polish Science, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, and the Czesław M. Rodkiewicz Foundation. Since 2024, she has been a member of the Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Currently, she serves as the Deputy Chair of the Scientific Discipline Council Biomedical Engineering (since October 2024) and as Head of discipline Biomedical Engineering in the Doctoral School of Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (since October 2023).
Prof. Iwona Hołowacz
Vice-Dean for Student Affairs and Teaching at the Faculty of Medicine, Department of Preclinical Sciences, Pharmacology and Medical Diagnostics, Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Prof. Marek Zawadzki, MD
Faculty of Medicine, Head of the Department of Clinical Surgical Sciences, Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Prof. Tomasz Sozański, MD
Faculty of Medicine, Head of the Department of Preclinical Sciences, Pharmacology and Medical Diagnostics, Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Prof. Joanna Bladowska, MD
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Preclinical Sciences, Pharmacology and Medical Diagnostics, Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Prof. Bożena Cybulska-Stopa, MD
Faculty of Medicine, Head of the Department of Oncology and Hematology, Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Prof. Marta Kopaczyńska
Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Prof. Celina Pezowicz
Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Mechanics, Materials and Biomedical Engineering, Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Prof. Mariusz Ptak
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Machine and Vehicle Design Research, Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Prof. Marcin Zawadzki, MD
Faculty of Medicine, Head of the Department of Social Sciences and Infectious Diseases, Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Prof. Andrzej Ożyhar
Faculty of Chemistry, Head of the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Prof. Marcin Poręba
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Preclinical Sciences, Pharmacology and Medical Diagnostics, Faculty of Chemistry. Department of Biological Chemistry and Bioimaging, Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Prof. Tomasz Kajdanowicz
Faculty of Computer Science and Telecommunications, Head of the Department of Artificial Intelligence, Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Prof. Przemysław Śliwiński
Faculty of Computer Science and Telecommunications, Department of Automation, Mechatronics and Control Systems, Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Anna Szymoniak, MA
Innovation and Business Center, Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Cooperation Coordinator at the Innovation and Business Center at Wrocław University of Science and Technology. Building networks between science and business to foster the development of modern technologies and solutions. Bringing 10 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, with a background in New Product Development at Hasco-Lek—covering market and competitive analysis, promotional strategy, sales forecasting, and new product recommendations.
Marek Kulbacki, PhD
Representative of the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine for Technology and Innovation in Medicine, Wrocław University of Science and Technology
International Advisor Committee
prof. Zofia Czosnyka
Senior Research Associate, Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, UK
Her professional activity in Cambridge (since 1992) has been invariantly linked with the management of hydrocephalus. Growing number of cases of hydrocephalus seen every year, particularly in elderly, new understanding of the role of disturbance in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) circulation and its biochemical makeup in brain diseases extending beyond traditional boundaries of hydrocephalus made this area of clinical neuroscience both challenging and innovative
In 1994 she set up and run Shunt Evaluation Laboratory- world renowned centre for independent evaluation of hydrodynamic properties of hydrocephalus shunts enabling precise shunt testing and tailoring use of different types of shunts in patients presenting with selective CSF circulatory problems. The Laboratory tested 21 types of valves producing number of publications and well known in the UK ‘blue reports’ containing descriptions, indications, literature review of the most popular and innovative type of shunts
Since 1999 she has run physiological monitoring unit (including computerized infusion tests and overnight monitoring of intracranial pressure) to diagnose hydrocephalic patients. These works have already gained some recognition and recently, she extended their scope to monitoring cerebral autoregulation, pressure-reactivity, analysis of vasogenic waveforms and viscoelastic properties of the brain tissue, as well as on modern brain imaging techniques (in co-operation).
Dr Zofia Czosnyka’s three most important achievements in this field include:
- Set up criteria for in-vivo assessment of hydrocephalus shunt, useful in avoiding unnecessary shunt revisions
- Description of the link between failure of CSF circulation in hydrocephalus and haemodynamic failure, particularly disorder of autoregulation of CBF and cerebral pressure-reactivity
- Popularization of infusion tests and overnight ICP monitoring in diagnosis of diseases linked to disorders of CSF circulation.
prof. Marek Czosnyka
Professor Emeritus of Brain Physics, Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, UK
The ability of the brain to perform its analytical, emotional and executive functions depends upon an intact blood supply and competent buoyancy mechanisms. Evidence that majority of brain disorders have meaningful vascular components, being either a reason or a consequence of impending pathology, grows continuously. Therapeutical strategy crucially depends on assessment of cerebrovascular abnormality, including dysautoregulation, abnormal distribution of blood flow, ischaemia and hyperemia.
Over the past 20 years Professor Czosnyka has been conducting studies on methodology, clinical applications and models in clinical and experimental neuroscience aimed on autoregulation of cerebral blood flow and cerebrospinal dynamics (with a special attention to dynamics of Intracranial Pressure (ICP)), publishing over 800 papers in scientific press. He focused on interactions between intracranial pressure, cerebral autoregulation, and cerebral blood flow.
Last 34 years (from 1991) Professor Czosnyka spent in Cambridge, U.K. where he gained experience in setting up and steering large-scale scientific projects. He started with organizing computer-assisted bed-side monitoring of ICP in neurological critical care 4-beds annex and a mobile trolley for computerized infusion test to diagnose patients with hydrocephalus. Gradually he extended the system to multimodal bed-side monitoring (including cerebral blood flow, brain oxygenation, microdialysis). Now these systems are in daily use in 21-beds Neuro-Critical Care Unit controlling modern bed-side monitoring facilities. He supervised and coordinated a variety of scientific projects being conducted there (for PhD students and visiting scholars).
Professor Marek Czosnyka’s three most important scientific achievements may be listed as follows:
- Invention of methods for the continuous assessment of cerebral autoregulation and cerebrovascular reactivity and demonstration that they strongly determine outcome following head injury.
- Building system for diagnosing based on mathematical modelling of CSF dynamics leading to clinical tests able to differentiate brain atrophy (e.g. Alzheimer disease) and remediable hydrocephalus.
Invention of the method for non-invasive assessment of cerebral perfusion pressure.
prof. Olga Golubnitschaja, MD
Head of 3P Medicine, University Hospital, Bonn, Germany
Prof. Dr. Olga Golubnitschaja is the Head of the world’s first Predictive, Preventive, and Personalised (3P) Medicine Unit at the Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Bonn, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany. Her multidisciplinary education spans journalism, biotechnology, and medicine, and she has held prestigious research fellowships in Austria, Russia, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. Her research focuses on early and predictive diagnostics in pediatrics, neurosciences, and cancer.
Prof. Dr. Golubnitschaja has authored over 400 international publications, including research and review articles, position papers, books, book chapters, and congress contributions. Her work is at the forefront of predictive, preventive, and personalised medicine (3PM), with primary research interests in sub-optimal health conditions, pre- and perinatal diagnostics, cardiovascular diseases, neurodegenerative pathologies, and predictive diagnostics in cancer and diabetes. Her Google Scholar h-index is an impressive 60, with annual citations exceeding 650 since 2019.
She has received numerous awards, including the National and International Fellowships of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Eiselsberg Prize and the Highest Prize in Medicine in Austria, the Springer Nature Award, and the EMA Award.
Since September 2021, Prof. Dr. Olga Golubnitschaja has been the President of the European Association for Predictive, Preventive, and Personalised Medicine (EPMA), based in Brussels, leading network spanning over 50 countries. From 2009 to 2021, Dr. Golubnitschaja served as the EPMA Secretary-General. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of the EPMA Journal (Clarivate IF: 8.836, Scopus CiteScore: 11.3) and the Springer Nature book series Advances in Predictive, Preventive, and Personalised Medicine.
Prof. Dr. Golubnitschaja represents Europe in the EDR-Network at the National Institutes of Health (USA) and serves as a reviewer for over 50 clinical and scientific journals, as well as for international funding bodies in Europe and beyond. She is a recognized evaluation expert at the European Commission and contributed to the development of the 3PM-related content in the European “Horizon 2020” program (2010–2013). Currently, Prof. Dr. Golubnitschaja holds leadership roles as Vice-Chair of the Habilitation Committee (responsible for all medical specializations) at the Medical Faculty of the University of Bonn and as Vice-Chair of the Evaluation Panel for Marie Curie Mobility Actions at the European Commission in Brussels.
Prof. Dr. Olga Golubnitschaja will serve as a member of the International Advisory Committee of our Congress.
Dr Kurt Krapfenbauer
Vice President at European Association for Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine (EPMA)
Dr. Kurt Krapfenbauer began his career in 1995 at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Radiation Chemistry, University of Vienna, and continued in 1996 as a scientist at the Institute for Amino Acid Research at the Medical University of Vienna. Following his studies, he expanded his expertise by moving to Basel, where he contributed to biomarker research at Hoffman-La Roche. He subsequently took on the role of Head of Biomarker Research at the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research.
Over his career, Dr. Krapfenbauer has been responsible for various critical functions, including Research & Development, Manufacturing Operations, Technical Operations, and Quality Assurance. His expertise was further broadened through postgraduate studies, earning a qualification as a Qualified Person. In this capacity, he actively works as a freelance consultant.
Dr. Krapfenbauer is an accomplished senior scientist with extensive experience in biomarker research, particularly in the development and validation of biomarker assays. He is a founding member of the European Predictive, Preventive, and Personalized Medicine Association (EPMA), established in 2008 in Brussels, and co-founder of the 3P-Medicon startup company in 2020.
He served as Vice President for European Affairs at EPMA from 2008 to 2020 and has held the role of Vice President for International Affairs since 2021.
He holds a Ph.D. and a master’s degree in chemistry and bioanalytical chemistry from the University of Vienna. Dr. Krapfenbauer is the inventor of more than seven international patents, which earned him the Roche Inventory Award in 2005. Additionally, he has authored over 55 scientific publications in the field of biochemical research.
Dr. Krapfenbauer will talk about: The integration of AI in the pharmaceutical industry and biomarker research to advance predictive, preventive, and personalized approaches to oncological patient care.
prof. Effie Kapsalaki
University of Thessaly in Larissa Greece
Dr Kapsalaki is a professor of diagnostic radiology and a subspecialized neuroradiologist.
She is a faculty member of the University of Thessaly in Larissa Greece since September 2005. Since October 2021 she is also the head of MR imaging at the Euromedica medical imaging group, a private diagnostic center with state of the art imaging modalities in Greece.
Dr Kapsalaki has graduated from the Medical School of the University of Athens, Greece in 1991 and has done her training in radiology at the Ag Sofia Children’s Hospital in Athens from May 1992 till May 1993 and has completed her training in radiology at Areteion Hospital in Athens in July 1996.
She was a fellow of neuroradiology at the Medical College of Georgia, in Augusta, GA and at Mercer University in Macon GA.
In 2005 she was elected a lecturer at the University of Thessaly.
She has more than 100 publications in peer reviewed journals and over 200 oral and poster presentations at national and international meetings.
Most of her publications and presentations are on neuroradiology and particularly brain tumors, epilepsy, PD, cerebrovascular diseases.
She was an invited speaker in more that 100 national and international meetings.
She is responsible for Radiology I teaching 4th year medical students during the first semester and she is responsible for 2 elective lessons in neuroradiology ( emergency neuroradiology and clinical and functional neuroradiology) during the second semester.
She is responsible for the neuroradiology protocols (clinical and research) at the University Hospital of Larissa and she also performs lectures on neuroradiology for the radiology and other specialty residents.
Dr Kapsalaki was also the elected Greek delegate at the European Society of Neuroradiology 2018-2020.
She has organized several national and international meetings in Greece.
