Head of Department of Soft Tissue/Bone Sarcoma and Melanoma, Professor of Surgical Oncology
Department of Soft Tissue/Bone Sarcoma and Melanoma; Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland, Poland
Piotr Rutkowski is Professor of Surgical Oncology at the Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology in Warsaw, Poland.
Dr Rutkowski is the current Head of the Department of Soft Tissue/Bone Sarcoma and Melanoma, the Plenipotentiary Director of Institute for Clinical Trials at the Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology as well as the VicePresident of Scientific Council of Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology. 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.
Dr Rutkowski is an active member of the EORTC Melanoma Group; EORTC Soft Tissue and Bone Sarcoma Group, where he chaired the Local Treatment Subcommittee and the Membership Committee of the EORTC Board. He is a member of several Polish and international scientific societies (Member of International Committee of ASCO, Board member of Polish Society Surgical Oncology and Ex-member of the Board of Directors of the Connective Tissue Oncology Society). Dr Rutkowski has authored or co-authored over 140 scientific papers in Polish and international journals (with an impact factor of above 4000, index-H: 46, citation index >14000), and is co-author of national and international recommendations for sarcoma and melanoma. He is working very closely with national patient advocacy groups for GIST/sarcoma and melanoma and is Chairman of the Melanoma Academy in Poland. Chair of Task Group of Ministry of Health, Poland for National Oncological Strategy.