Advancing healthcare through research, education, and evidence-based medicine — building toward a career as a physician-scientist.
Currently
Medical University of Łódź
English Division · Poland
5th Year
MBBS · MD Programme
Mayo Clinic
Nephrology Observership · Sept 2026
IOCCM 2025
Published Abstract
About
A fifth-year medical student training at the intersection of clinical practice, scientific research, and medical education.
My work is guided by a simple conviction: the questions raised at the bedside deserve to be answered in the laboratory, and the answers found there belong back at the bedside. That two-way path is what drew me toward the physician-scientist pathway.
Alongside clinical training, I contribute to research spanning cardiovascular medicine, onco-nephrology, and pharmacogenomics, and I teach — anatomy, OSCE preparation, and peer mentoring — because explaining medicine well is how I learn it deeply.
Clinical & Research Interests
Internal Medicine
Cardiovascular Medicine
Nephrology
Oncology
Neuroscience
Precision Medicine
Education
Medical training in an international English-language programme, paired from the outset with research and teaching.
English Division · Łódź, Poland
Clinical Experience
Nephrology
A one-month clinical observership in nephrology at one of the world's leading academic medical centres, confirmed for September 2026 — training inside a research-driven care environment.
How nephrologists, transplant teams, pharmacists, and allied specialists converge on a single patient plan.
The teaching-hospital rhythm — rounds, case conferences, and continuous evidence appraisal.
The reasoning behind complex renal cases, from differential to management under genuine uncertainty.
How translational research feeds directly into protocol and bedside decisions.
Research
Work spanning cardiovascular medicine, onco-nephrology, neuro-oncology, and the pharmacogenomics of individualised prescribing.
An examination of PCSK9 inhibition as a therapeutic route for patients with familial hyperlipoproteinemia who cannot tolerate statin therapy, with attention to residual cardiovascular risk.
My current research focuses on clinically relevant topics across precision medicine, internal medicine, oncology, and respiratory medicine. These projects reflect my growing interest in evidence-based medicine and multidisciplinary clinical research.
This review explores the role of pharmacogenetics in personalized medicine, highlighting how genetic variations influence drug response, efficacy, and safety. The project discusses current evidence, emerging clinical applications, and the future integration of pharmacogenomics into routine healthcare.
This narrative review examines the complex relationship between kidney disease, cardiovascular disorders, and cancer. It focuses on shared risk factors, underlying pathophysiological mechanisms, treatment-related complications, and multidisciplinary strategies to improve patient outcomes within the field of cardio-onco-nephrology.
This review summarizes current evidence on pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, with emphasis on epidemiology, molecular biology, diagnostic approaches, treatment strategies, and recent advances aimed at improving survival and patient care.
This case report highlights the diagnostic challenges associated with asthma and emphasizes the importance of comprehensive clinical evaluation, appropriate differential diagnosis, and evidence-based management to avoid delayed or incorrect treatment.
Pharmacogenomic markers studied for their role in translating inherited variation into safer, individually calibrated prescribing.
CYP2D6
Antidepressants, opioids, tamoxifen
CYP2C19
Clopidogrel, PPIs, SSRIs
TPMT
Thiopurine toxicity risk
NUDT15
Thiopurine intolerance
DPYD
Fluoropyrimidine safety
SLCO1B1
Statin-induced myopathy
HLA variants
Hypersensitivity reactions
CYP2C9
Warfarin, NSAIDs, phenytoin
VKORC1
Warfarin dose sensitivity
CYP4F2
Vitamin K metabolism
Leadership
Roles centred on teaching, organising, mentoring, and representing the programme across international collaborations.
Medical University of Łódź
Representing the English Division to prospective and incoming international students, and supporting their transition into the programme.
Academic Programmes
Designing and coordinating educational sessions for peers — from planning and faculty liaison through to delivery and feedback.
Clinical Skills Training
Building structured OSCE preparation workshops that give students realistic, examinable practice in clinical examination and communication.
Peer Teaching Initiative
Facilitating anatomy learning sessions, translating dense regional anatomy into something students can reason through rather than memorise.
International Fellowship
Selected for a health leadership programme focused on collaborative problem-solving and cross-border academic partnership in healthcare.
Akademia Polskiego · Poland
In partnership with established educators in Poland, providing academic advisory services and guidance on educational pathways for students navigating the route into medicine.
Conferences
International academic forums for presenting research and collaborating with student-researchers across borders.
International Online Conference — abstract presented
Asian Medical Students' Association — international representation
Podcast
A panel discussion from the Medical University of Łódź — Multiple Perspectives.
Journey
Teaching, research, conferences, and the long quiet hours in between.
The first year on the receiving end of a workshop — the same sessions he would later be the one running.
Arriving in Łódź — the year of sitting in the front row and volunteering for everything.
The heaviest pre-clinical year, and the one that decides whether you stay.
Pre-clinical gives way to clinical. Long library days, longer coffees.
Research, conferences, and teaching the students who were where he started.
The individual conversations — with physicians and scientists — that mattered as much as the sessions themselves.
Ms Joanna Wieremiejewicz-Podkościelna has been far more than a mentor — through student activities, workshops, and the decisions that shaped where this journey is headed, she has been someone who encouraged him to believe in himself and keep moving forward. Some people become part of a journey; a few help shape it. Joanna has been one of those people.
The sessions he organises and teaches — anatomy, OSCE, CPR, pathology.
Lecture halls, libraries, labs, and the hands-on hours in between.
The classmates, staff, and quiet parks that make a long degree survivable.
Moments that don't sit neatly in one chapter.
Medical Education
Explaining medicine to peers is the fastest route to understanding it yourself — and the most useful thing to give back.
Peer-led regional anatomy sessions grounded in clinical correlation.
Structured examination practice with real-time formative feedback.
One-to-one academic guidance for junior students across the programme.
Scenario-driven training that rehearses decisions before the ward.
Hands-on skills sessions built around procedural competence.
Helping international students learn medical Polish, in partnership with Akademia Polskiego — because a patient deserves to be understood in their own language.
Akademia PolskiegoSkills
Future Vision
To practise as a physician-scientist — holding clinical responsibility and research inquiry in the same hand, and contributing to healthcare that is both evidence-driven and internationally collaborative.
Cardiovascular Medicine
Internal Medicine
Precision Medicine
Clinical Pharmacology
Translational Research
Medical Education
Collaborators
The advisory work above runs through a small, close partnership rather than a formal institution — built with people already established in Poland's academic community.
Contact
For observerships, research collaboration, conference participation, or academic correspondence — the fastest route is email.
Kishore Muthukumar · Medical University of Łódź · English Division · Poland
