Marek Migdał, MD, PhD, has been graduated from the Medical University of Warsaw in 1979. Since October 1, 1979, he is employed at the Children’s Memorial Health Institute. Initially, he worked in the Department of Paediatrics, then from 1986 in the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care. In December 2018, he was appointed by the Minister of Health to the position of the Director of the CMHI. In 1985-1986 and in 1990 he did research internships in France (SEPCR scholarship, then French government scholarship). In 2005-2009, he was the Head of the PICUt, then, until 2018, the Deputy head of the PICU.
He is a paediatrician, specialist in lung diseases. In 1990, he defended his doctoral dissertation at the CMHI in the field of lung function measurement in newborns and infants with respiratory failure. He is a researcher (assistant professor) at the Children’s Memorial Health Institute, author of more than 230 publications, lecturer at postgraduate courses, organizer of a number of conferences dedicated to paediatric intensive care and clinical trials in Poland. Active coordinator of international scientific cooperation. He was the Polish coordinator of the following European grants: EU-CHS – European network for central hypoventilation syndrome (2008-2012), GRIP- Global Research in Paediatrics (2011-2017), in 2016-2018 he was the European coordinator of the SMART grant (Small Medicines Advanced Research Training) and the coordinator of the Polish grants ID-EPTRI (European Translational Research Infrastructure) and c4c (conect4children – a pan-European clinical trial network). He is EPTRI’s treasurer.
He is a member of the European Society of Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC), in 2014-2017 elected to the Executive Board of this society as the Professional Development Committee Chair. In the years 2019-2021, vice-chair of the Ethics Section of the society. Since 2007, he is a member of the Pediatric Committee of the European Medicines Agency.