Metabolic Diseases of Civilization

Metabolic diseases of civilization includes the areas: cardiovascular systems, endocrinology and metabolism and laboratory diagnostics. Team leader: prof. dr hab. Jacek Kubica

The area of research collaboration on vascular atherosclerosis diseases brings together representatives of three faculties of the CM NCU. Atherosclerosis is a civilization disease which is the most common cause of death in developed countries. At the root of this disease, there are risk factors which, when co-occurring, are defined as metabolic syndrome.This collaboration aims to develop new strategies for the treatment of people with metabolic disorders that determine a high risk of atherosclerosis occurrence as well as people who have already experienced complications caused by this disease, including in particular a heart attack and a heart failure.

The current and planned scientific activity involves observational research, randomized clinical trials, and meta-analysis. We collaborate with scientists from Austria, Italy, Great Britain, Greece, Finland, Lithuania, Germany, Canada and the USA within the COPERNICUS RESEARCH GROUP network whose annual meetings are held in Bydgoszcz as part of International Cardiovascular Research Meetings. Our collaboration involves the SIRIO MEDICINE – Research Network (https://siriomedicine.com), the platform we administer.

Prof. dr hab. Jacek Kubica – leader, Head of the Department of Cardiology and Internal Medicine, CM NCU, a member of the RECARDIO Scientific Council, San Francisco, USA. After graduating in 1987 from the Faculty of Medicine at Medical Academy in Gdansk, he took up a job at this university. He has been working in Bydgoszcz since 2000. He holds a specialization in internal diseases (first and second degree) and cardiology. He was awarded the degree of doctor of medical sciences in 1992 and doctor habilitated in 1999. The Prime Minister of Poland awarded him for his habilitation thesis. He received the title of professor in 2006 and has worked as a full professor since 2007. He has held important administrative positions at Collegium Medicum, NCU, including the office of the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine.

Prof. Kubica focuses his research on interventional cardiology, treatment of patients with acute coronary syndromes, and heart failures. He is the author of numerous scientific publications on the subject. His publications have influenced on several occasions the formulation of therapeutic recommendations issued by international scientific societies. He collaborates scientifically with numerous foreign centres in the USA, Italy, Germany, Austria, and South Korea. Professor Kubica has been a beneficiary of prestigious scholarships (John Paul II Institute of Christian Culture, University of Pavia, European Society of Cardiology and Knoll Italia sponsored scholarship) thanks to which he spent more than three years at universities abroad, i.e. in Italy, Holland, and the USA. He has promoted 21 doctors, has reviewed many doctoral and habilitation theses and has been a reviewer in the proceedings for the award of the academic title of professor. Prof. Jacek Kubica was a regional consultant in the field of cardiology in the Elbląg and Kujawsko-Pomorskie voivodships. Since 2009 he has been Chair of the State Examination Commission which conducts oral exams constituting part of the State Specialization Examination in Cardiology. He is the deputy editor-in-chief of the monthly journal Folia Cardiologica, has been a member of the scientific councils of several journals, and works in many scientific societies. Jacek Kubica is married and has two daughters.