Dr Mariusz Chabowski is a thoracic and general surgeon in the Dept of Surgery of the 4th Military Teaching Hospital in Wroclaw, Poland. In 1994 he graduated Faculty of Medicine in Wroclaw. He completed his thoracic surgery in 2001, and his general surgery - in 2016. In 1998-2009 he worked in Dept of Surgery, National Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland. In 2000 he wrote his doctoral thesis titled: The evaluation of the results of the surgical treatment of the patients in stage IIIA (N2 disease) non-small cell lung cancer as well as the influence of the postoperative thoracic radiotherapy and the predictive factors. Since 2009 he has been working and in 2019 he became the Head of the Surgery Dept. Since 2014 till 2023 he was the lecturer at Wroclaw Medical University, Faculty of Health Science. In 2019 he completed his Tenure Track at Military Institute of Medicine in Warsaw: Analysis of selected factors affecting quality of life and mental health in patients treated for lung cancer. Since 2024 he has been working as the associate professor at Department of Surgical Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine in Wroclaw University of Science and Technology. He is author and co-author of 134 scientific papers. His impact factor score is 423, his number of citations (without self-citations) – 1,248, and his Hirsch index – 20. He is an active member of Polish Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons (PTKT) since 2002 and he is Secretary General since 2023.