ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Biography and Qualifications
Professional biography, qualifications and selected training completed by Tomasz Poboży, MD, PhD.
Tomasz Poboży, MD, PhD is a second-degree specialist in orthopaedics and musculoskeletal traumatology and holds a doctorate in medicine. For more than 25 years, he has treated musculoskeletal diseases and injuries, combining surgical practice with diagnostic imaging.
He has performed musculoskeletal ultrasound since 2003, using it both diagnostically and to guide selected procedures. He also develops this experience through research and teaching.
How an orthopaedic surgeon develops professional skills
Professional development has included surgeon-to-surgeon training, cadaver courses and surgical observation at European and American centres.
- 2023 — Porto, Portugal: Surgeon-to-Surgeon — ACL reconstruction and shoulder arthroscopy.
- 2022 — Amsterdam, Netherlands: Surgical Observation — revision hip replacement, Cone Conical and Trident II.
- 2022 — Genk, Belgium: Surgeon-to-Surgeon — MIS ASI Avenir and Persona ROSA.
- 2020 — Munich, Germany: Surgeon-to-Surgeon — Fitmore and G7.
- 2018 — Porto, Portugal: Surgeon-to-Surgeon — knee and shoulder reconstruction techniques.
- 2017 — Madrid, Spain: cadaver courses on revision hip replacement and the anterior intermuscular approach in total hip replacement.
- 2017 — Florence, Italy: Surgeon-to-Surgeon — ankle replacement.
- 2016 — Oxford, United Kingdom: unicompartmental knee replacement course.
- 2016 — Ohio and Pennsylvania, USA: observation and participation in hip replacement and total and partial knee replacement procedures.
- 2014 — Porto, Portugal: individual course in knee reconstruction techniques.
- 2012 — Munich, Germany: individual course in minimally invasive anterior hip replacement.
- 2012 — Stolzalpe, Austria: Instructional Course “NexGen Primary and Revision”.
- 2011 — Annecy, France: Live Surgery International Shoulder Course.
- 2011 — Tübingen, Germany: Meniscus Expert Course — meniscal reconstruction, Anatomy Institute, University of Tübingen.
Awards and distinctions
ALPINION Innovation Award — 2015
Award presented by ALPINION Medical Systems for the work Assessment of the upper part of the glenoid labrum in the Virtual Convex imaging US examination using ALPINION E-CUBE 15.
Last updated: 13 September 2026.
Content prepared by: Tomasz Poboży - orthopaedic surgeon.