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Associate Professor Andrzej Gackowski

Jagiellonian University Medical College, John Paul II Hospital, Krakow (Poland)

Member of:

European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging
Heart Failure Association of the ESC

MD PhD, Assoc. Prof, President, Polish Association of Echocardiography of the Polish Cardiac Society (2023-2025) Head of Noninvasive Cardiovascular Laboratory in John Paul II Hospital, Jagiellonian Univ. Cracow, PL. Clinical cardiologist, echocardiographic, and invasive cardiologist, working since 1991 in the reference cardiology center for southern Poland. Interests in valvular disease, and heart failure. Active in ECHO-guided procedures (PMBV, M-TEER, T-TEER, TAVI, TMVR, LAAO, LV remodeling), including early works on minimally invasive mitral valve disease (TMVR, transapical neochord implants). Author of over 140 publications (including Eur Heart J, JACC, Circulation, Echocardiography, EJCTS, Eur J Heart Failure), IF > 256, HI >22, citations >1900. Innovative educator, Inventor, Co-Founder: Medical Simulation Technologies, 1 patent. Married, 2 daughters.

Mixed valvular heart disease: old and new challenges

Event: EACVI 2025

Topic: Valvular Heart Disease

Session type: Symposium

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The use of transoesophageal echocardiography (TEE) to guide therapeutic approaches in heart valve disease

Event: EuroEcho-Imaging 2024

Topic: Intraoperative and Interventional Echocardiography

Session type: Case-Based Session

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2016 Heart failure Guidelines in Poland

Event: ESC Congress 2016

Topic: Heart failure, other

Session type: Guidelines in Practice

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