HubertFornalikMDFACS, FACOG

Summary

• Dr. Hubert Fornalik is a gynecologic oncologist. He received his medical degree from Medical University of Warsaw in 2000. He speaks multiple languages, including Polish and Russian. He specializes in minimally invasive gynecologic surgery, radical tumor debulking for complete cytoreduction, HIPEC, gynecologic surgery in morbidly obese, and surgical treatment of endometriosis. He presents yearly during national and international specialty meetings on robotic surgery technique.
  According to PubMed review, Dr. Fornalik was the first to report on hand-assisted robotic surgery in gynecology (Int J Gynecol Cancer 2015; 25: 1488-1493) and the first to report successful laparoscopic/robotic hysterectomy and pelvic lymphadenectomy without the utilization of Trendelenburg position (Gynecol Oncol 2018 Feb; 148(2):432 ). His morbidly obese patients with endometrial cancer undergoing robotic surgeries experienced one of the best-published results, despite being a population with one of the highest published rate of comorbidities (Int J Gynecol Cancer 2018 Jun;28(5):959-966)
  -the highest number of lymph nodes harvested
  -one of the highest percentage of patients undergoing successful lymphadenectomy
  - the lowest conversion rate to laparotomy: 0/76
  -one of the highest median BMI - 47
  -the highest number of such cases performed per year, among published Gynecologic Oncologists: 24/year