Our Distinguished Faculty
Meet our distinguished faculty—renowned experts, thought leaders, and innovators who bring unparalleled knowledge and insight to this conference. Learn from their expertise and be inspired by their contributions.
Dr Andrzej Krol MD, DEAA, FRCA, FFPMRCA
Dr Andrzej Krol is a Consultant in Pain Medicine & Anaesthesia at St George’s University Hospital, London, UK since 2005. He also consults patients in his private pain management clinics at Parkside Hospital, Wimbledon and Spire St Anthony's Hospital, Sutton, Surrey.
Dr Krol is actively involved for over 15 years in promoting and teaching interventional pain relief techniques to doctors, with ultrasound guided approaches opening a new horizon. He is a Council Member of the London Pain Forum, a leading group of pain doctors in the UK. He is Chairman of the popular annual European Society of Regional Anaesthesia & Pain Therapy Ultrasound in Chronic Pain Management Workshop at St George's University Hospital, London.
Dr Krol is also a Past-President of the Interventional Section of the Polish Association for the Study of Pain (PTBB) and a founding member of the Polish Neuromodulation Society.
Dr Krol qualified (MD) from Medical School in Warsaw, Poland in 1991. Completed his Anaesthetic and Intensive Care training in 1998. Diplomate of European Academy of Anaesthesiology (DEAA) 2000. Simultaneously he was trained in Palliative Medicine and set up a Palliative, Hospice and Chronic Pain Service in the region.
Interventional Pain Management Practice
Dr Krol performs a wide spectrum of pain interventions in his practice with expertise in ultrasound guided injections and radiofrequency procedures.
He has a special interest in the following pain conditions and interventions:
He has a special interest in the following pain conditions and interventions:
- diagnosis and treatment of peripheral nerve entrapment's
- ultrasound guided interventions: Peripheral nerve blocks, trigger point blocks, fascial plane blocks
- sympathetic blocks: stellate ganglion, lumbar sympathectomy, coeliac plexus, superior hypogastric, ganglion impar.
- spinal pain - cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral including selective nerve roots blocks, epiduroscopy
- Radiofrequency and Pulsed Radiofrequency procedures including: lower back, neck, pelvis, shoulder hip and knee joints OA (osteoarthritis)
- Cancer pain
Neuromodulation Pain Management Practice
Dr Krol also offers minimally invasive and non-invasive neuromodulation modalities for treating chronic pain conditions in his private clinic, including external neuromodulation treatments with the Remedius ExStim device.
Kateryna Bielka
Kateryna Bielka works as a Full Professor at Postgraduate Department of Surgery, Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Bogomolets National Medical University since 2019. Her main educational activities include simulation training in difficult airways, perioperative emergencies, POCUS, regional anaesthesia, advanced ultrasound courses.
She is a chief of the educational program for residents at Bogolomolets National Medical University. Since 2019, Kateryna Bielka is working as anaesthesiologist consultant at Perinatal Center, Kyiv, Ukraine. She is a member of the European Board of Anaesthesiology and several international study groups.
Wojciech Gola MD, PhD, EDRA
President of the Polish ESRA Society
Consultant in anesthesiology, intensive care and pain medicine
Head of th Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, St. Lucas Hospital, Konskie, Medical Director at St. Lucas Hospital in Konskie, Poland
Kuchyn Yuriy
Prof. Kuchyn Yuriy is the President of Bogomolets National Medical University since 2018. Since 2002 he has been working in different fields of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care as well as topics of invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, multiple trauma, acute and chronic pain management, regional anesthesia, respiratory intensive care and various aspects of medical education and clinical research.