Prof. Andrzej Maciejczak

Medical Faculty of the University of Rzeszów, Poland

Andrzej Maciejczak is a neurosurgeon specializing in spinal surgery. For many years, he has been a faculty member in numerous basic, advanced and master level spine surgery training courses organized throughout Europe by international scientific organizations and societies: AO Spine, European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS), and Section of Spine Surgery of EANS. He was an invited lecturer at annual congresses of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies. He was a member of the organizing committee and local host of the congress of one of the largest spine surgery organizations Eurospine held in 2009 in Warsaw.

Andrzej Maciejczak is the author of more than 90 scientific publications in the field of spinal surgery and published in top rank journals like Neurosurgery, Injury, European Spine Journal, Journal of Neurosurgery Spine. He is also an author of a chapter in international monograph on Spine Surgery Nontraumatic Cervical Myelopathy: Pathologies, Surgical Techniques, and Nuances. He is involved in spreading knowledge among internists about back pain and its treatment. He gave lectures on this subject at national congresses of Polish internists and is the author of a chapter on back pain in Szczeklik's Internal Medicine, the biggest Polish textbook of internal medicine and the cornerstone of medical education in Poland, published yearly since 2005 and translated into several languages. He completed his specialty training in the Dept of Neurosurgery at the University Hospital of the Polish Army Medical Department (1986-1991) and in the Dept of Neurosurgery at the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow, Scotland, UK (1996-1997). He received his doctorate in medicine in 1993, his habilitation in 2001 and became professor in 2015. Since 2002, he has been the head of the Department of Neurosurgery at the Medical Faculty of the University of Rzeszów at the Saint Luke Hospital in Tarnów, Poland.