Clinical Influencer, Cohort 2
Mr Pawel Pietrzak, Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon, Swansea Bay University Health Board
Pawel is a Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon at Swansea Bay University Health Board. Following his graduation from higher surgical training in general surgery and oncological surgery in Poland, he moved to work in Wales dedicating his interest to breast surgery. He built experience working in South Wales between Cardiff & Vale and Swansea Bay University Health Boards.
His professional interests lie in incorporating the newest developments into clinical practice and redesigning breast services to adapt to the modern challenges of the 21st century.
He is particularly passionate about the following fields:
– Redesigning breast services to incorporate prudent healthcare principles and creating modern oncoplastic breast units, allowing equal access for all patients.
– Cooperating with primary care to be able to deliver basic breast services in the community, utilising both face-to-face and virtual health care.
– Making every single patient contact count. Focusing on promoting healthy lifestyle choices such as smoking cessation, and promoting an active lifestyle including physical activity and rehabilitation following breast cancer treatment, to improve women’s overall health.
Pawel’s is working on creating optimal pathways of breast cancer treatments in the elderly. Devising an optimal pathway to help with the decision-making process between surgery or primary hormone therapy and optimising the follow-up and monitoring process for those choosing to stay on hormone therapy only.