Associate Professor Andrzej Gackowski

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.