Prof. Dr. Piotr Gawda is a graduate of the Medical Faculty at the Medical University of Lublin. Since 1996, he has been an academic teacher at the Medical University of Lublin, currently in the position of head of the Department of Sports Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical University of Lublin. He combines the work of an academic teacher with clinical work in the Clinic of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation of the Clinical Hospital No. 4 in Lublin, as well as in the Orto-Optymist Medical Center in Lublin. He is a member of professional scientific societies including the Polish Society of Sports Medicine and the Polish Society of Rehabilitation. His research interests include rehabilitation, sports medicine, biomechanics, electromyography, TMD, psychosomatic.