Jacek J. Stachowiak, MD

Specialisation: orthopaedic and trauma surgery - 2nd degree.

Education: Graduate of the former Military Medical Academy of Łódź.

Professional experience: professional career started at the Orthopaedics and Trauma Department of the Bielański Hospital in Warsaw, and continued at the Orthopaedics Department of the Military Institute of Medicine in Warsaw.

Professional interests: Main professional interests focus on large-joint osteoarthritis (prosthetic hip and knee arthoplasty) and surgical treatment of musculoskeletal trauma and neoplastic lesions, also spinal.

For the past four years, Dr Jacek Stachowiak has been introducing biological methods of trauma and organ degeneration treatment into surgical practice - of wide application are platelet-derived growth factors and appropriately prepared bone marrow stem cells. The abovementioned methods are used in the treatment of various types of sports injuries - tendon and muscle damage, twisted joints as well as varicose veins or skin wounds hard to heal. More and more commonly there are also used the so called biomaterials, including "artificial" bones, used for instance in the treatment of bone cysts, pseudarthrosis or spinal stiffness.