MUDr. Peter Polan, PhD., MPH

	Email:	peter.polan@upjs.sk
	Homepage:	https://www.upjs.sk/LF/zamestnanec/peter.polan
	Faculty:	LF UPJŠ - Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice Faculty of Medicine
	Department:	KMSM Šaca - Department of Musculoskeletal and Sports Medicine UPJS MF and AGEL Hospital Košice-Šaca
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	ORCID ID:	0000-0002-1747-3483

MUDr. Peter Polan PHD, MPH is the Head of the Department of Musculoskeletal and Sports Medicine of UPJŠ, Košice-Šaca Agel Hospital. The main professional interests consist in primary and revision knee and hip joint endoprosthetics, arthroscopy of weight-bearing joints, sports orthopaedics and traumatology. He completed several internships abroad, in Austria, Czech Republic, Scotland, Italy and USA; participated in the Salzburg Medical Seminars and the EFORT fellowship. He published as the main author and co-author in over 50 domestic and foreign professional periodicals. He was involved in the project of the Slovak Arthroplasty Register (SAR). He is a co-founder and Scientific Secretary of the FIFA Medical Center of Excellence Košice–Šaca (FMCE). Since 2021 he has been a member of the Slovak Orthopaedic and Traumatology Association (SOTA). He is also a member of the Slovak Society for Arthroscopy and Sports Traumatology (SSAST), the Czech Society for Orthopaedics and Traumatology (CSOT), the European Society of Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy (ESSKA) and the FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence Košice–Šaca (FMCE). For more than 25 years he has been working as a club and national team physician for the leading Slovak clubs and national teams in handball, basketball and soccer.

Higher education and further qualification growth

Second degree of higher education:

Pavol Jozef Šafárik in Košice, Faculty of Medicine, Slovakia, 1997, General Medicine

Third degree of higher education:

Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Medicine, Slovakia, 2013, Orthopedics

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Profile courses
Surgery 6 (Chirurgia 6) - General Medicine (Všeobecné lekárstvo), I., II. degree
Surgery 6 - General Medicine, I., II. degree
Arthroskopy and Sports Medicine - Electiv Course - General Medicine (Všeobecné lekárstvo), I., II. degree
Orthopedics and traumatology of the foot and ankle - Electiv Course - General Medicine (Všeobecné lekárstvo), I., II. degree
Sports Medicine - General Medicine (Všeobecné lekárstvo), I., II. degree
Selected projects
VEGA 2020–2022 – Analysis of serum and synovial biomarkers for osteoarthritis in correlation with the change in the clinical condition of patients after intra-articular administration of autologous platelet-rich plasma. Project Leader Doc.MUDr. Marek Lacko, PhD, Co-Investigator MUDr. Peter Polan PhD, MPH.
APVV – Longitudinal study of psychosocial innovations in the management of chronic diseases (LORICCOM, APVV-15-0719, 2016-2020). Project Leader Dr. Iveta Rajničová, PhD, Co-Investigator MUDr. Peter Polan, PhD, MPH.
Operational Program, call code OPVaIaVA/DP/2016/1.2.1-02 – Functionally graded biomaterials for cartilage tissue regeneration.
IROP Operational Program – Emergency Department and Surgery Center for minimally invasive procedures and a Multifunctional Surgical ICU unit – extension building, reconstruction. Stage 1 – Construction of a new Central Emergency Department for the Košice-Šaca Hospital – the 1^st Private Hospital. This project is co-financed by the European Investment and Structural Funds – European Regional Development Fund, call code: IROP-PO2-SC213-2017-20.
Organisational activities
člen SOTS - Slovenská ortopedická a traumatologická spoločnosť (SOTS)
člen SSAST - Slovenská spoločnosť pre artroskopiu a športovú traumatológiu (SSAST)
člen ČSOT - Česká společnosť ortopedicko-traumatologická (ČSOT)
člen ESSKA - Európska spoločnosť pre športovú traumatológiu, chirurgiu kolena a artroskopiu (ESSKA)
člen FMCE - FIFA Medical Centre of Excelence

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Activities related to sports medicine • Since 1997 until present – sports medicine physician for basketball and handball national league clubs (Good Angels Košice, Crow Košice and HC Košice) • Since 2014 – physician of the Good Angels Košice basketball club – a 4-time Slovak Champion. • In 2018 – physician of the Lokomotíva Košice soccer club. • In 2007–2009 – sports medicine physician of the Slovak National Under-21 Basketball and Handball Teams. • In 2011–2012 – Chief Physician of the Slovak Men's Handball Team. • In 2013–2015 – Chief Physician of the Slovak Women's Basketball Team, and until present – a physician of several national youth teams. • In 2017–2018 – Chief Physician of the Slovak Men's Handball Team. • Since 2019 – physician of the National U18 or U19 Soccer Team. • Co-founder and Scientific Secretary of the FIFA Medical Center of Excellence Košice-Šaca (FMCE) Other activities within science and research (own scientific projects) • Biobehavioral aspects of functional status and quality of life in patients with osteoarthritis. • Back in Action – monitoring of patients after anterior cruciate ligament plastic surgery. • Importance of preventive analgesia in the management of postoperative pain in patients with implanted knee arthroplasty.

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