Blazej Pruszczynski, MD, PhD | About me
Diagnostyka i leczenie chorób stawu biodrowego, stopy końsko-szpotawej, mózgowego porażenia dziecięcego, następstw urazów, chorób zwyrodnieniowych, dobieranie ortez.
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Education:

  • Primary school in Lodz, completed with distinction (1988-1996)
  • Secondary school in Lodz, completed with distinction (1996-2000)
  • Student of the Faculty of Medicine at the Medical University of Lodz (2002-2006), I graduated with distinction
  • Year President of the 6th year at the Faculty of Medicine
  • Receiving PhD degree 9.03.2010 at the Medical University of Lodz
  • Obtaining the title of a Specialist in Orthopaedics and Traumatology – 11.2014

Clinical experience:

  • Individual course of studies in the Clinic of Orthopaedics and Paediatric Orthopaedics, the Medical University of Lodz (2003-2007)
  • One-year post-graduate internship (2006-2007)
  • Assistant, later Assistant lecturer in the Clinic of Orthopaedics and Pediatric Orthopaedics, the Medical University of Lodz (12.2007 up to now)

Scholarships:

  • 3rd year of studies at the Claude Bernard University in Lyon, France, passing all the exams in French (2002-2003), Erasmus/Socrates Scholarship Programme. Student internships in the clinics of Orthopaedics, Paediatric Orthopaedics, Paediatric Surgery and of Internal Diseases
  • Educational Exchange Programme with the Kaohsiung Medical University in Taiwan (09.2004) – 1) bone consolidation, 2) receptors activation mechanism
  • Educational Exchange Programme with Klinik und Poliklinik für Orthopädie in Bonn, Germany (09.2005) – degenerative diseases of spinal column
  • Educational Exchange Programme with the Medical University Clinical Center in Skopje, Macedonia (08.2006) – hip in children with cerebral palsy
  • EPOS – EFORT IC “BAT – Educational Programme” Children’s Orthopaedics Traumatology – Vienna (2011/2012)
  • Research Fellow w AI DuPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE, USA (2012-2013)
  • EPOS-POSNA Travelling Fellow 2015 (19.04-2.05.2015)

Courses and training:

  • “Controversies in Cerebral Palsy” – a course during European Paediatric Orthopaedic Society meeting (6.04.2005)
  • “Ponseti Method in Treating Congenital Clubfoot” – a course during a convention of Paediatric Section of the Polish Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (26.05.2005)
  • “Ultrasonography of Hip Joint” – infant hip sonography course – organized and led by Prof. Dr R. Graf in Stolzalpe (3-7.10.2005)
  • “The Athletic Child” –a course during European Paediatric Orthopaedic Society meeting (5.04.2006)
  • “Minimally Invasive Techniques of Treatment in Paediatric Orthopaedics” – a course during a convention of Paediatric Section of the Polish Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (19.05.2006)
  • “Clinical Decisions in Spasticity Management”, “Indication and Limitation of Gait Analysis” – a course during East European and Mediterranean Meeting on Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine (8.06.2006)
  • “Congenital Deficiencies of the Lower Limb” – a course during European Paediatric Orthopaedics Society Meeting (11.04.2007)
  • “Primary Arthroplasty of Hip Joint” – Aeskulap Akademia. (29.03.2008)
  • “Dega Pre-Meeting Course” – a course during European Paediatric Orthopaedic Society Meeting (9.04.2008)
  • Advance Life Support Provider Course (07.2008)
  • “Prevention and Treatment of Injuries in Sports “Ball-Racket-Net” (12-13.06.2008)
  • 1st Introduction Course of Osteosynthesis – Aesculap Academia (17-18.10.2008)
  • “Injuries of Vessels in Orthopaedics and Traumatology” – (14.11.2008)
  • ”Non-idiopathic Early Onset Scoliosis” – a course during European Paediatric Orthopaedic Society Meeting (01.04.2009)
  • Limbs Deformities – “Baltimore Limb Deformity Course” (2012)
  • Ultrasonography of hip joint – Infant hip sonography course – led by Prof. Harcke in Wilmington, DE, USA (2013)
  • Visits in Lyon, France (2014) and Umea, Sweden (2015) – watching and learning other methods of infant hip sonography (according to Boquet i Dalström)
  • Visits in Skövde, Sweden (2017)  – watching and learning infant foot sonography sonography
  • Visits and internships: Al Du Pont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE, USA (2015,2016), Boston Children Hospital, Harvard Medical School, MA, USA (2016), Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego, CA, USA (2017)

Memberships:

  • Member of the European Paediatric Orthopaedic Society – EPOS (2013 up to now)
  • Member of the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine AACPDM, (2015 up to now)
  • Member of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America POSNA (2015 up to now)
  • Member of the Hip Dysplasia Institute (2015 up to now) www websitewebsite »
  • Secretary of the Section of Paediatric Orthopedics of the Polish Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (for the years 2015-2016), a member of this section (2008 up to now)
  • Member of the Society on using Ilizarov method ASAMI-Poland (2008 up to now)
  • Member of the Polish Society of Foot and Ankle Joint Surgery (2008 up to now) and the Polish Society of Upper Limb Surgery (2011 up to now)
  • Member of the International Society of Medicine Students (IFMSA), (2003 – 2007), chairman of the Audit Committee of the Lodz branch of IFMSA
  • Chairman of Lodz workshops of IFMSA „Encouraging International Students Exchange” during the International and Nationwide Convention of Students Scientific Societies and Young Doctors in Lodz (2005, 2006)
  • Member of the Organizing Committee of the International and Nationwide Convention of Students Scientific Societies and Young Doctors in Lodz (2005, 2006, 2007)

Research:

  • Developmental hip dysplasia – causes, treatment, demography, complications, USG diagnostics (static and dynamic)
  • Cerebral palsy – possibilities for improvement of functions and comfort of life
  • Clubfoot
  • Analysis of gait
  • Orthotics

Diplomas and certificates

The knowledge of languages:

  • Polish – native language
  • French – fluent (one-year scholarship in France, DELF: A1, A2, A3, A4)
  • English – fluent (one-year scholarship in USA)

Other jobs:

  • Physical work in a factory of tiles 1997, 1998
  • Grape harvest (2002)
  • Work in Ambulance Service in Lyon, France (07.2003-09.2003)

Outside medicine:

  • enology
  • skiing
  • travels