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Born in 1968 in Tarnow, Poland • Medical study at the Silesian Medical Academy, 1987-1993 • Doctor of medical sciences (1995), specialist dermatologist (1999), specialist allergist (2010) • Certificate in Aesthetic Medicine (Postgraduate School of Aesthetic Medicine, Polish Medical Society 2013) • Music therapist (Marie Curie-Sklodowska University 2018) • Habilitation (state-certified permanent qualification for professor posts) in 2003 • Permanent professorship awarded in 2017 • Author or co-author of more than 450 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and more than 50 scientific monographs and textbooks • Listed in the directory of world's top scientists (Elsevier 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025).
Research interests: Diseases from the spectrum of eczema & dermatitis • Patch tests & photopatch tests • In vivo and in vitro diagnosis of allergy • Diseases from the spectrum of urticaria • Cutaneous adverse reactions to cosmetics and drugs • Mechanisms of contact hypersensitivity, photoallergy & phototoxicity.
Current posts: Co-founder and director of scientific development at the Institute of Dermatology in Krakow • Dermatology & Allergy Consultant, private practice 'dermatolog.eu', Krakow • Founder and owner of the laboratory Sensimun (formerly Celimun), Krakow.
Past posts: Professor and Head of the Department of Experimental Dermatology and Cosmetology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland (2010-2025) • Head of the Department of Health Promotion, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland (2005-2009) • Researcher at Dermatology Clinic, Free University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2003-2005) • Senior researcher at the Institute of Rural Medicine in Lublin, Poland (1995-2003).
Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the first Polish medical online journal "GALEN" (founded 1996), as well as scientific journals "Estetologia Medyczna i Kosmetologia" (Medical Esthetology and Cosmetology) and "Dermatopedia" • Co-founder, past deputy editor-in-chief and present member of advisory board to the Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine • Present or past member of the scientific advisory board of the journals Allergologie, the Journal of Investigational Allergology and Clinical Immunology, The Open Allergy Journal, Alergoprofil, ISRN Public Health, and Advances in Dermatology and Allergology • Member of the Local Organizing Committee for the XXVIII Congress of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (Warsaw, 6-10 June 2009), president of the Local Organising Committee of the EAACI Allergy School "Dermatitis&Eczema" (Krakow 18-21 August 2011), president of the Local Organising Committee of the EAACI Skin Allergy Meeting (Krakow 18-20 September 2014) • Member of Scientific Committees at the 10th Congress of the European Society of Contact Dermatitis (Strasbourg, 15-18 September 2010), and 11th Congress of the European Society of Contact Dermatitis (Malmö, 13-16 June 2012) • Dermatology and allergology rater for the McMaster Online Rating of Evidence (MORE), PIER, bmjupdates+, and the Evidence-Based Journals.
Co-ordinator or participant in 14 research programmes: Stategic governmental programmes • National Committee for Scientific research (KBN) grant • Institutional grants (Institute of Rural Health, Lublin and Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow) • Research fellowship from the German Academic Exchange Office (DAAD) • Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (European Commission's 5th Framework Programme) • Marie Curie European Reintegration Grant (6th Framework Programme).
Training abroad: Klinik für Dermatologie und Allergologie, St. Josef Hospital, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum (Germany) • Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden (UK) • Allergiestation, Universitätsspital, Zurych (Switzerland) • Klinik für Dermatologie und Allergologie - Hautklinik, Uniklinik RWTH Aachen (Germany) • Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Kuopio (Finland) • Dermatologie, Vrije Universiteit Medisch Centrum, Amsterdam (The Netherlands).
International awards: Howard I. Maibach Award (American Society of Contact Dermatitis, 2003) • EAACI Exchange Research Fellowship Award (European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology, 2001) • Albert M. Kligman Fellowship (Society for Investigative Dermatology, 2001).
National awards: Team Teaching Award, 1st degree, from the Rector of the Medical University of Gdansk for co-authoring the textbook "ABC of Urticaria: Urticaria in Questions and Answers" (2018) • President's Award of the Polish Agricultural Social Insurance Fund (2003) • Team Award of the Institute of Agricultural Medicine, Lublin (1999) • Prof. Mieczyslaw Obtulowicz Honorary Diploma (Polish Allergology Society, 1997) • Fellowship of the Polish Science Foundation (1996) • Silver Medal "Primus Inter Pares" (1991) • Rector's Awards (Silesian Medical Academy, 1988, 1989, 1990, and 1991).
Participation in international guidelines, position papers and consensuses:
- Rönsch H, Drewitz KP, Atwater AR, Becker D, Bentz P, Brans R, Chong T, Dickel H, Elsner P, Giménez-Arnau AM, Guarneri F, Guzmán Perera MG, Ibrahim S, Koumaki D, Koelbel J, Larese Filon F, Ljubojevic Hadžavdic S, Loman L, Matura M, Molin S, Ofenloch R, Piontek K, Spiewak R, Strunk A, Reeder M, Reissig D, Rustemeyer T, Schuttelaar ML, Simon D, Sloot M, Steiner MFC, Tongalaza S, Valiukevičienė S, Waitek M, Weisshaar E, Wöhrl S, Wolff D, Bauer A, Apfelbacher C. Consensus on core domains for hand eczema trials: Signs, symptoms, control and quality of life. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol. 2025;39(9):1588-99. doi: 10.1111/jdv.20671.
- Thyssen JP, Schuttelaar MLA, Alfonso JH, Andersen KE, Angelova-Fischer I, Arents BWM, Bauer A, Brans R, Cannavo A, Christoffers WA, Crépy MN, Elsner P, Fartasch M, Filon FL, Giménez-Arnau AM, Gonçalo M, Guzmán-Perera MG, Hamann CR, Hoetzenecker W, Johansen JD, John SM, Kunkeler ACM, Hadzavdic SL, Molin S, Nixon R, Oosterhaven JAF, Rustemeyer T, Serra-Baldrich E, Shah M, Simon D, Skudlik C, Spiewak R, Valiukevičienė S, Voorberg AN, Weisshaar E, Agner T. Guidelines for diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of hand eczema. Contact Dermatitis. 2022;86(5):357-78. doi: 10.1111/cod.14035.
- Brockow K, Ardern-Jones MR, Mockenhaupt M, Aberer W, Barbaud A, Caubet JC, Spiewak R, Torres MJ, Mortz CG. EAACI position paper on how to classify cutaneous manifestations of drug hypersensitivity. Allergy. 2019;74(1):14-27. doi: 10.1111/all.13562.
- de Waard-van der Spek FB, Darsow U, Mortz CG, Orton D, Worm M, Muraro A, Schmid-Grendelmeier P, Grimalt R, Spiewak R, Rudzeviciene O, Flohr C, Halken S, Fiocchi A, Borrego LM, Oranje AP. EAACI position paper for practical patch testing in allergic contact dermatitis in children. Pediatr Allergy Immunol. 2015;26(7):598-606. doi: 10.1111/pai.12463.
- Johansen JD, Aalto-Korte K, Agner T, Andersen KE, Bircher A, Bruze M, Cannavó A, Giménez-Arnau A, Gonçalo M, Goossens A, John SM, Lidén C, Lindberg M, Mahler V, Matura M, Rustemeyer T, Serup J, Spiewak R, Thyssen JP, Vigan M, White IR, Wilkinson M, Uter W. European Society of Contact Dermatitis guideline for diagnostic patch testing - recommendations on best practice. Contact Dermatitis. 2015;73(4):195-221. doi: 10.1111/cod.12432.
Participation in national guidelines, position papers and consensuses:
- Nowicki R, Czarnecka-Operacz M, Grubska-Suchanek E, Kiec-Swierczynska M, Kowalewski C, Krecisz B, Kruszewski J, Kupczyk M, Palczynski C, Szepietowski J, Trzeciak M, Walusiak-Skorupa J, Spiewak R. Stanowisko Polskiego Towarzystwa Alergologicznego oraz Polskiego Towarzystwa Dermatologicznego w sprawie ograniczonej dostępnosci niezbednych materialow do testow platkowych. Czesc I: bariery technologiczne i prawne. Alergol Pol - Pol J Allergology. 2024;11(3):195-210. doi: 10.5114/pja.2024.142698. (Position statement of the Polish Society of Allergology and Polish Dermatological Society regarding the limited accessibility of materials necessary for patch testing. Part I: Technological and legal barriers)
- Nowicki RJ, Trzeciak M, Rudnicka L, Szepietowski J, Kulus M, Kupczyk M, Mastalerz-Migas A, Peregud-Pogorzelski J, Jahnz-Rozyk K, Narbutt J, Czarnecka-Operacz M, Czajkowski R, Grubska-Suchanek E, Krasowska D, Krecisz B, Kowalewski C, Lesiak A, Olszewska M, Samochocki Z, Spiewak R, Wilkowska A. Biological drugs in the treatment of atopic dermatitis - current recommendations of the Polish Dermatological Society, the Polish Society of Allergology, the Polish Pediatric Society and the Polish Society of Family Medicine. Postepy Dermatol Alergol. 2020;37(5):617-624. doi: 10.5114/ada.2020.100496.
- Peregud-Pogorzelski J, Sokolowska-Wojdylo M, Spiewak R, Adamski Z, Czuwara J, Kapinska-Mrowiecka M, Kaszuba A, Krasowska D, Krecisz B, Narbutt J, Majewski S, Reich A, Samochocki Z, Szepietowski J, Wozniak K. Atopic dermatitis. Interdisciplinary diagnostic and therapeutic recommendations of the Polish Dermatological Society, Polish Society of Allergology, Polish Pediatric Society and Polish Society of Family Medicine. Part I. Prophylaxis, topical treatment and phototherapy. Postepy Dermatol Alergol. 2020;37(1):1-10. doi: 10.5114/ada.2020.93423.
- Nowicki RJ, Trzeciak M, Kaczmarski M, Wilkowska A, Czarnecka-Operacz M, Kowalewski C, Rudnicka L, Kulus M, Mastalerz-Migas A, Peregud-Pogorzelski J, Sokolowska-Wojdylo M, Spiewak R, Adamski Z, Czuwara J, Kapinska-Mrowiecka M, Kaszuba A, Krasowska D, Krecisz B, Narbutt J, Majewski S, Reich A, Samochocki Z, Szepietowski J, Wozniak K. Atopic dermatitis. Interdisciplinary diagnostic and therapeutic recommendations of the Polish Dermatological Society, Polish Society of Allergology, Polish Pediatric Society and Polish Society of Family Medicine. Part II. Systemic treatment and new therapeutic methods. Postepy Dermatol Alergol. 2020;37(2):129-134. doi: 10.5114/ada.2020.94829.
- Kruszewski J, Mazurek H, Czarnecka-Operacz M, Spiewak R. Testy skorne. W: Kruszewski J, Kowalski ML, Kulus M, red. Standardy w alergologii. Wydanie III. Stanowisko paneli eksperckich Polskiego Towarzystwa Alergologicznego. Termedia, Poznań 2019: 17-41. (Skin tests. in: Standards in Allergology. 3rd Edition. Position Statement of the Expert Panels of the Polish Society of Allergology)
- Nowicki R, Trzeciak M, Wilkowska A, Sokolowska-Wojdylo M, Lugowska-Umer H, Baranska-Rybak W, Kaczmarski M, Kowalewski C, Kruszewski J, Maj J, Silny W, Spiewak R, Petranyuk A. Atopic dermatitis: current treatment guidelines. Statement of the experts of the Dermatological Section, Polish Society of Allergology, and the Allergology Section, Polish Society of Dermatology. Post Dermatol Alergol. 2015;32(4):239-49. doi: 10.5114/pdia.2015.53319.
- Nowicki R, Trzeciak M, Wilkowska A, Sokolowska-Wojdylo M, Lugowska-Umer H, Baranska-Rybak W, Kaczmarski M, Kowalewski C, Kruszewski J, Maj J, Silny W, Spiewak R, Petranyuk A. Atopowe zapalenie skory - aktualne wytyczne terapeutyczne. Stanowisko ekspertow Sekcji Dermatologicznej Polskiego Towarzystwa Alergologicznego i Sekcji Alergologicznej Polskiego Towarzystwa Dermatologicznego. Lekarz POZ. 2015;1(1):39-50. (Polish-language version of the above)
- Nowicki R, Trzeciak M, Wilkowska A, Sokolowska-Wojdylo M, Lugowska-Umer H, Baranska-Rybak W, Kaczmarski M, Kowalewski C, Kruszewski J, Maj J, Silny W, Spiewak R, Petranyuk A. Atopowe zapalenie skory - aktualne wytyczne terapeutyczne. Stanowisko ekspertow Sekcji Dermatologicznej Polskiego Towarzystwa Alergologicznego i Sekcji Alergologicznej Polskiego Towarzystwa Dermatologicznego. Post Dermatol Alergol. 2015:1-11 (Polish-language version of the above).
- Kruszewski J, Nowicki R, Spiewak R, ed. Pokrzywki: rozpoznawanie i leczenie. Stanowisko Panelu Ekspertow Polskiego Towarzystwa Alergologicznego. Medycyna Praktyczna; Kraków 2011. (Urticaria: Diagnosis and Treatment. Position Statement of the Expert Panel of the Polish Society of Allergology)