Janusz Szymas

Address

Laboratory of Neurosurgical Pathology
Department of Pathology
University of Medcial Sciences
Przybyszewski Str. 49
60-355 Poznan, Poland
tel. (+48-61) 8691498-9
fax: (+48-61) 8691430
e-mail: jszymas@ampat.amu.edu.pl

 

Personal Information

Date and place of birth: March 1, 1948, Poznan, Poland

Marital status: married, two children

 

Education

 1964 - final secondary school examination at the A. Mickiewicz College, Poznan

1970 - graduate (with honors), Medical Faculty University of Medical Sciences, Poznan

1975 - M.D. Medical Faculty University of Medical Sciences, Poznan

1987 - Habilitation, Medical Faculty University of Medical Sciences, Poznan (awarded by the Minister of Health)

 1999 - Professor, Medical Faculty University of Medical Sciences, Poznan

 

Specialization

1973 - I° pathology

1979 - II° pathology

 

Professional Employment

July 1970 - July 1972, Research-Teaching Jung Assistant, Institute of Pathology, University of Medical Sciences, Poznan

Aug. 1972 - Sept. 1974, Research-Teaching Assistant, Institute of Pathology, University of Medical Sciences, Poznan

Oct. 1974 - Sept. 1979, Research-Teaching Old Assistant, Institute of Pathology, University of Medical Sciences, Poznan

Oct. 1979 - Sept. 1989, Assistant Professor, Institute of Pathology, University of Medical Sciences, Poznan

Oct. 1989 - present, Associate Professor, Institute of Pathology, University of Medical Sciences, Poznan

 

Positions Held

Sept. 1977 - present, Head of the Laboratory of Laboratory of Neurosurgical Pathology within the Institute of Pathology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences

 

Invited Positions

1975 - 1976 scholarship of the Max-Planck-Society, Max-Planck Institut for Brain Research, Cologne, Germany

1985 - 1986 invited Professor at the Heinrich-Heine-University of Dusseldorf, Institut of Neuropathology, Dusseldorf, Germany

1986 - 1987 invited Professor at the Max-Planck Institut for Neurological Research, Cologne, Germany,

 

Invited Lectures  

1985 - Heinrich-Heine University, Dusseldorf, Germany

1988 - University of Humbold, Berlin, Germany,

1994 - Kopfklinik, Erlangen, Germany

 

Membership

Polish Society of Pathology - board member

Polish Association of Neuropathology - board member

Polish Society of Scull Base Surgery - memeber

Polish Association of Medical Internet - founding member, president since 1997

European Society for Analytical Cellular Pathology - member

International Society for Neuropathology - member

Committee of Neurooncology, Polish Academy of Sciences - member since 1984

Committee of Medical Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences - member since 1991

 

Editorial Boards

"Medical Science Monitor"

"Electronic Journal of Pathology and Histology"

"Contemporary Oncology"

"Neuroscope"

 

Co-ordination of European Projects:

TEMPUS Project - Tempus-Phare application for a Structural Joint European Project in the academic years 1996/97 - 1998/99

 

Organisation of Scientific Conferences

1992 - 1st National Workshop "Microcopmputers in Pathology", Poznan, 26-27.11.1992.

1993 - 2nd National Workshop "Microcopmputers in Pathology", Poznan, 26-27.11.1993.

1994 - 3rd 1st National Workshop "Microcopmputers in Pathology", Poznan, 26-27.11.1994.

1995 - 4th National Workshop "Microcopmputers in Pathology", Poznan, 26-27.11.1995.

1996 - 5th 1st National Workshop "Microcopmputers in Pathology", Poznan, 26-27.11.1996.

1997 - 6th National Workshop "Microcopmputers in Pathology", Poznan, 26-27.11.1997.

1999 - 7th 1st National Workshop "Microcopmputers in Pathology", Poznan, 26-27.11.1999.

2000 - 5th National Conference of Medical Internet, Poznan, 10-11.11.2000.

 

 

Member of the Programme Committee of International Conferences

 

Major Awards for Scientific Achievements

 Minister of Health Award (1990, 1993)

Scientific Award of the Polish Association of Neuropathology (1983)

 

Research Interests

 Methodology and diagnostic techniques of head and neck tumors including histochemistry, electron microscopy, immunohistochemistry and quantitative method.

New technologies media in telepathology. Decision support in medicine, technology, multi-criteria decisions analysis, knowledge-based decision support,

artificial intelligence, rough set theory.

 

 Publications (see the list)

 Author and co-author of 11 monographs, 3 textbooks and more than 200 papers published in international and in major Polish scientific journals, as well as in edited monographs.

 

 

Last update: August 25, 2000