Prof. Tomasz Brzozowski works as a professor of human physiology and is currently Chairman of the Department of Physiology and V-Dean of the Medical Faculty at Jagiellonian University Medical College, Cracow, Poland. His primary area of interest is the physiology and pathophysiology of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, with a major focus on the mechanism of GI mucosal defense, protection, and ulcer healing. He was a postdoctoral NIH fellow at the University of California and the Gastroenterology VA Medical Center, Irvine, Long Beach, CA, USA and at the Gastroenterology Clinics Erlangen-Nuremberg and Munster in Germany.