Jaroslaw Kalinka MD, PhD

Jarosław Kalinka, MD, PhD

HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PERINATOLOGY, Ist CHAIR OF GYNECOLOGY&OBSTETRICS, MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ, POLAND

HEAD of the DEPARTMENT OF PERINATOLOGY, M. Madurowicz Hospital in Lodz, Poland,

HEAD of the MEDICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PREGNANCY HEALTH HAZARDS UNIT

DEPARTMENT OF PERINATOLOGY, Ist CHAIR OF GYNECOLOGY AND OBSTETRICS, MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ, POLAND


Private Health Care Center:
146 A Lutomierska St, 91-041 Lodz, Poland

BACKGROUND

I have been practising gynaecology and obstetrics since 1991. I studied medicine at the Medical University of Lodz and completed my medical training at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical University of Lodz, Poland and in Sapir Medical Center, Meir Hospital, Kfar Saba, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Currently I am the Head of the Medical and Environmental Health Hazards Unit at the Department of Perinatology, I Chair of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Medical University of Lodz, Poland and an Associate Professor at the Department of Perinatology.

My OB-GYN Private Health Care Center is a full-service OB-GYN facility providing complex medical care and counseling in high- and low-risk pregnancy, gynecology, as well as woman health care and ultrasound diagnostics. My patients receive personalized care and their interests and wellbeing are always my first priority.

The Center is conveniently located in downtown Lodz, a big city in central Poland.

Work history:

• since 1991: Department of Perinatology, I Chair of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Medical University of Lodz, Poland Wileńska 37, Lodz 94-029, Poland

• 2006 – Head of the Medical and Environmental Pregnancy Health Hazards Unit, I Chair of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Department of Perinatology, Medical University of Lodz, Poland

Position:

• 2009 - acting Head of the Department of Perinatology, I Chair of Gynecology and Obstetrics,
• 2008. HEAD of the DEPARTMENT OF PERINATOLOGY, M. Madurowicz Hospital in Lodz, Poland
• 2006 – Head of the Medical and Environmental Pregnancy Health Hazards Unit, I Chair of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Department of Perinatology, Medical University of Lodz, Poland

Education:

• 2006.06.27 – degree of ‘doctor habilitus’: „Assessmet of impact of selected environmental risk factors for intrauterne growth restriction and preterm delivery using biological indicators and biomarkers of exposure’

• 1999 - 2nd degree speciality in obstetrics and gynecology –distinction.

• 1995 - PhD degree on doctoral dissertation: „The impact of selected environmental risk factors on fetal intrauterine growth restriction.” – distinction.

• 1994 - Ist degree speciality in obstetrics and gynecology

• 1989-1991 - medical internship

• 1989 – graduated from Medical University of Lodz, Poland

Professional training:

• 2011 - PRETERM BIRTH INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE, Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization & March of Dimes, USA; kwiecień 2011, Genewa, Szwajcaria

• 2011 - Erich Saling World School of Perinatal Medicine; Ian Donald Neonatal School of Ultrasound; Global Congress Recent Advances in Ultrasound Diagnosis in Obstetrics and Gynecology; Dubrownik, Chorwacja

• 2010 – Winter Forum: Management of preterm labour and post partum hemorrhage.  Sibiu, Romania

• 2010 – PREBIC 2010 - Preterm Birth International Collaborative, Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization; Geneva, Szwajcaria

• 2009 - Preterm Birth International Collaborative – PREBIC oraz Preterm Birth and Genetics International Alliance – PREGENIA, Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, March of Dimes i Johnson and Johnson Paediatric Institute, WHO Headquarters, Geneva, Szwajcaria; kwiecień 2009

• 2008 - Obstetrics Forum 2008, October 2008, Amsterdam, Holand

• 2008 – Preterm Birth International Collaborative – PREBIC oraz Preterm Birth and Genetics International Alliance – PREGENIA, Department of Reproductive Health and Research (RHR), UNDP/UNFPA/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP),World Health Organization, March of Dimes i Johnson and Johnson Paediatric Institute, WHO Headquarters, Geneva, Szwajcaria; kwiecień 2008

• 2007 – Preterm Birth International Collaborative – PREBIC. Department of Reproductive Health and Research, WHO and March of Dimes. Geneva, Switzerland

• 2005 – „Hot Topics in Fetal Medicine” ; The Fetal Medicine Foundation, Director: Kypros Nicolaides. Lodz, Poland 06.10.2005

• 2005 – Medical Program of The American Austrian Foundation, Columbia University and The Soros Foundation: Salzburg Columbia Seminar „ Maternal and Infant Health”; June 2005, Schloss Arenberg, Salzburg, Austria.

• 2004 – Course “Modern diagnostics and treatment of infertility”. Polish Gynaecological Society, Serono Symposia International. October 2004. Mierzęcin, Poland.

• 2001 – 8th International Postgraduate Course on „ Recent Advances in Perinatal Medicine”, Italian Ministry of Health; Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture (EMFCSC), Erice, Sicily. June 2001

• 2000 – Course “ Electrosurgery and cryosurgery in gynecology”; Cedzyna, Poland. June 2001.

• 1995 – course of endometrial ablation (RaFEA) at University Hospital in Nijmegen, Holland.

• 1994 – Postgraduate Course in Gynecology and Obstetrics in Sapir Medical Center, Meir Hospital, Kfar Saba and at Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel. 03.01-24.03.1994.

• 1988 – students’ medical practice in General Hospital, Vigo, Spain

Special medical interests:

• Preterm labour and delivery Immunology, microbiology and preterm delivery

• Immunology and risk factors of preterm labour and delivery

• Immunology of early pregnancy

• Intrauterine growth restriction (IGUR)

• Lower genital tract infections

• Perinatal epidemiology

• Preterm birth and genetics

Publications:

• 84 full papers in peer reviewed Polish and international journals (56 in English); 26 publications with Impact Factor
  Total Impact Factor of my publication=53,462
  Citation index= 203
  Hirsch index= 9 9 reviews papers (www.pubmed.com, www.umed.lodz.pl)
• 108 abstracts and Congress presentations

Scientific Reviewer for:

• American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology,
• American Journal of Reproductive Immunology,
• Frontiers in Bioscience,
• Fertility and Sterility,
• Drug Safety,
• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth,
• Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation,
• Reproductive Biology

Distinctions:

• 2007 - Medical University of Lodz: 1st degree Chancellor Award for individual scientific achievements in 2006

• 2006 - Medical University of Lodz: 2nd degree Chancellor Award for scientific achievements in 2005

• 2005 - Kalinka J, Hanke W, Sobala W: "Impact of prenatal tobacco smoke exposure, as measured by midgestation serum cotinine levels, on fetal biometry and umbilical blood flow velocity waveforms. American Journal of Perinatology 2005, 22: 41-47. This paper has been chosen for publication in 2006 Year Book of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women' Health; Mosby Publishing, Elsevier Health Science, USA as one of the best papers in obstetrics published in 2005

• 2003 – Dublin, Ireland: International Cytokine Society Award: The Frederica Fischer Foundation Fellowship;

• 2003 – Dublin, Ireland: International Cytokine Society Award: The Frederica Fischer Foundation Fellowship

• 1999 - IV World Congress of Perinatal Medicine, Buenos Aires, Poster Award, Mention of Honor

• 1999 – Conference „Challenges to Epidemiology in Changing Europe”, Polish Society for Environmental Epidemiology, Poster of Distinction

• 1995 - doctoral dissertation - distinction

Membership:

• Member of Preterm Birth International Collaborative – PREBIC. Department of Reproductive Health and Research, WHO and March of Dimes.

• Member of the Editorial Board BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth published by BioMed Central Ltd, Middlesex House, London, UK

• Member of ICM Research Advisory Network, UK

• Polish Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics

• World Association of Perinatal Medicine

• Board Member of Polish Perinatal Society

• International Red Cross

• International Society of Gynecological Endocrinology

• Preterm Birth Genome Project Consortium, USA

• Senate Member of Medical University of LOdz, Poland

• Senate Member of Institute of Occupational Medicine, Lodz, Poland

Languages:

• English - fluent - Cambridge First Certificate

• Russian – not fluent

Certificates: