I began to study medicine in 1987 and graduated from the Medical Academy of Silesia, faculty of Medicine in Zabrze, on 16th of June 1993 with honors. My postgraduate internship was held at the clinics of the Silesian Medical Academy. After graduation I was employed at Specialist Hospital No. 2 in Bytom, in the Department of Internal Diseases. On October 1, 1997, I was appointed academic teacher for the position of assistant in the Medical Academy of Silesia (currently Medical University of Silesia, SUM) in the 3rd Department of Internal Medicine. As of October 1, 2005, I was appointed Assistant Professor at the Chair and Clinical Department of Internal Medicine, Angiology and Physical Medicine (formerly the III Department and Department of Internal Diseases), where I have been working until now, as deputy head of the clinic. I received the degree of doctor of medicine (MD, PhD) on 5 March 1998 by the resolution of the Medical Faculty Council in Zabrze, Katowice, after defending my dissertation, entitled “The viability and metabolism of J774.2 cells subjected to slow-moving magnetic fields”. (Promotor: Prof. Aleksander Sieroń MD, PhD). On the February 5th 2019 the president of the Republic of Poland granted me the title of full professor of medical science.