The professor was entrusted with organizing in Lublin in 2026. 52nd Congress of the Polish Society of Otorhinolaryngologists Head and Neck Surgeons.
As the new president-elect stressed, this is an honor, but also a major organizational challenge. He added that his primary task as president-elect of the Polish Association of Otorhinolaryngologists Head and Neck Surgeons will be to organize an important, large - with more than 1,000 participants - Congress, which will be held in two years in Lublin. At the Congress that we will organize in Lublin, I intend to particularly emphasize the excellent achievements of our Clinic, both scientific and clinical. It is extremely important to emphasize the progress in the diagnosis and treatment of head and neck cancer. Patients who used to be referred for palliative treatment now largely have a chance of survival and this is mainly due to surgeries using microvascular dissection flaps. Such operations have been performed regularly for more than a dozen years at our Clinic," says Prof. Janusz Klatka, MD.
As president-elect, I will participate in the work of the Board of Directors of the Polish Society of Otorhinolaryngologists Head and Neck Surgeons, which relates to solving the problems of our Society in the field of postgraduate training or publishing activities of our journals, such as Otorynolaryngologia Polska and Laryngological Review. In this regard, by the way, I have been cooperating with the National Consultant in Otolaryngology for many years - says Prof. Janusz Klatka, MD.
Prof. Janusz Klatka, MD, is a graduate of the Faculty of Medicine at the Medical Academy in Lublin (now the Medical University of Lublin). In 1985, he completed his doctoral studies at the Department of Otolaryngology of the Medical Academy in Lublin. He is a specialist in otolaryngology. Since 1987, he has been employed as a full-time research and teaching fellow at the Department of Otolaryngology of the Medical Academy in Lublin. In 1988, he received his doctoral degree in medical sciences. In 2002, he was awarded a postdoctoral degree in medical sciences. In October 2008, he was appointed as a professor at the Medical University. He completed an internship at the Department of Otolaryngology in Antwerp (1994), the Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery at Tufts University and Good Samaritan Medical Center and Sturdy Memorial Hospital in Boston (1998.), a course on ear surgery at the Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery in Würzburg (2001), a course on the diagnosis and treatment of vertigo (Maastricht 2002), a course on the supply of fractures in the facial region (Tallinn 2008, Valletta 2012). He is engaged in the surgical treatment of inflammatory conditions and tumors in the nose, sinuses, mouth, pharynx, salivary glands, larynx and ears, surgical treatment of extensive facial trauma. He is the author of more than 200 items of literature. These papers have been presented at numerous national and international scientific congresses. He conducts lectures and classes with students of the Faculty of Medicine and the Department of Dentistry of the Medical University of Lublin. He is a member of numerous Polish and foreign scientific societies. He was a member of the Senate of the Medical University of Lublin. Since October 2010, he has been the Head of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Laryngological Oncology at the Medical University of Lublin and the Medical Director of the Clinical Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Laryngological Oncology at the University Clinical Hospital No. 4 in Lublin. In February 2011, he received the title of Professor from the hands of the President of the Republic of Poland. Since October 2011, he has served as Regional Consultant in otolaryngology.
