Journal Club discussion of “Angiotensin system inhibitors may improve outcomes of patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer during abiraterone acetate treatment” – Front Oncol 2021
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Michał Wilk
Michał Wilk - Medical oncologist, working at the Department of Oncology of the European Health...
Read MoreMichał Wilk - Medical oncologist, working at the Department of Oncology of the European Health Center in Otwock, Poland. Member of the International Cardio-Oncology Society and European Society for Medical Oncology. The area of interest includes prostate cancer treatment and its cardiac complications and geriatric oncology.
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Sebastian Szmit graduated from the Military Medical Academy in Poland. He began cardio-oncology...
Read MoreSebastian Szmit graduated from the Military Medical Academy in Poland. He began cardio-oncology activities in 2006 working for the Department of Oncology of the Military Institute of Medicine. He was appointed the executive editor of the Task Force of National Consultants in Cardiology and Clinical Oncology, and developed the first two Polish Recommendations on cardiovascular safety of patients with breast cancer (published in 2010) and lung cancer (published in 2012). Since 2012 he has served as the cardio-oncology consultant at the Department of Pulmonary Circulation, Thromboembolic Diseases and Cardiology, at the Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education in Poland. In 2015 he was appointed as the scientific director of the "Oncology in Cardiology" training program. He is the cardio-oncology research coordinator for the Polish Lymphoma Research Group and the Polish National Oncology Network. He co-authored two educational books: "Hypertension-oncology: arterial hypertension in cancer disease" and "Cardiovascular complications in cancer patients" published in 2018 under auspices of the Polish Society of Clinical Oncology, Since 2019 he has been a Member of the Executive Committee of the Global Cardio-Oncology Summit (GCOS) and a Member of the Education & Training Advisory Committee of the International Cardio-Oncology Society (ICOS) and in 2020 he was awarded an Honorary Member of the Cardio-Oncology Society of Southern Africa (COSOSA), a Fellow of the International Cardio-Oncology Society (FICOS), and a Board Member of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Council of Cardio-Oncology. On May 26th 2021, Dr. Szmit was asked by the Scientific Council of the Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education to lead the newly created "Cardiooncology Department and Echocardiography Laboratory" based at the European Health Centre in Otwock (oncology center) and the Institute of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine in Warsaw.
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