Piotr Rutkowski MD, PhD

Piotr Rutkowski is Professor of Surgical Oncology at the Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology in Warsaw, Poland. He obtained his medical degree from the Medical University of Lodz, Poland and received his PhD, in 2001, from the Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology for his work on cytokine levels in patients with soft tissue and bone sarcomas.

Dr Rutkowski is currently Head of the Department of Soft Tissue/Bone Sarcoma and Melanoma and the Plenipotentiary Director of the Institute for Clinical Trials at the Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center. He has participated in several investigator-driven trials in melanoma and sarcoma. He is also Coordinator of the Polish Clinical GIST Registry, and a reviewer for several international scientific journals, as well as a member of the Editorial Board of Annals of Surgical Oncology and European Journal of Surgical Oncology.