Agnieszka Lecka-Ambroziak

Agnieszka Lecka-Ambroziak, MD, PhD

Agnieszka Lecka-Ambroziak, MD, PhD, is a graduate of the First Faculty of Medicine at the Medical Academy of Warsaw. She specialises in paediatrics and endocrinology. Ms Agnieszka holds the title of Doctor of Medical Sciences (MD, PhD). She continuously improves her professional qualifications by participating in numerous courses, conferences and training programmes. What is more, Doctor Lecka-Ambroziak is an author and co author of many academic publications and a member of various scientific associations.

Specialization:

• Endocrinologist
• Pediatric endocrinologist

Patient`s age:

• adults (up to 26 years of age)
• children

The doctor deals with:

• consultations for adults and children in the field of endocrinology
• services related to hormonal imbalance observed during developmental period and in young adults
• services related to endocrine disorders in children with genetic syndromes
• diagnosis and treatment of thyroid, adrenal and hypothalamic -pituitary diseases

Education:

• Medical Academy of Warsaw
• Specialist in paediatrics
• Specialist in endocrinology
• defence of the dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Medical Sciences (with distinction) at the Children’s Memorial Health Institute (Instytut Pomnik – Centrum Zdrowia Dziecka, IP-CZD): “Zespół Pradera-Williego: obraz kliniczny, efekty leczenia wielospecjalistycznego, w tym terapii hormonem wzrostu, u polskich pacjentów leczonych w ośrodkach endokrynologii dziecięcej w latach 2002-2016” (“Prader-Willi syndrome: clinical picture, effects of multidisciplinary treatment, including growth hormone therapy, in Polish patients treated at paediatric endocrinology centres between 2002 and 2016”) (January 2022)

Professional experience:

• from 2002 to 2023: work at the Children’s Memorial Health Institute as, among others, a Senior Assistant at the Department of Endocrinology and Diabetology
• from 2009 to 2023: Research Assistant; work at the Endocrinology Outpatient Clinic (e.g. carrying out consultations in the field of endocrinology)
• since February 2022: Senior Assistant at the Endocrinology Outpatient Clinic of the Institute of Mother and Child
• since 2018: consultations in the field of endocrinology at the Warsaw Endocrinology Outpatient Clinic, currently: Warsaw Medical Group
• from May 2005 to May 2006: clinical fellowship in the field of Paediatric Endocrinology (King’s College Hospital; St. George’s Hospital; Royal Marsden Hospital, London, UK)

Language proficiency:

• Polish
• English

Trainings, courses and certificates:

• participation in the International Pediatric Adrenocortical Tumor Registry (IPACTR), St. Jude Hospital, Memphis, USA
• 2012-2017: Clinical European study on the outcome of surgical and hormonal therapy and psychological intervention in disorders of sex development (DSD) (dsd-Life); project co-financed by the European Union
• European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE) Science Symposium on “Hypothalamic Dysfunction in Childhood; Understanding its etiology and developing new ways to improve outcome of children with genetic or acquired causes of hypothalamic dysfunction”, Utrecht, 2022
• distinction at the 10th Congress of the Polish Society of Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology in 2022: “Rak kory nadnerczy – 10-letni okres obserwacji w jednym ośrodku – opis przypadku” (“Adrenocortical Tumour: 10 years of Single-centre Observation – Case Report”)
• Genes 2021 Outstanding Reviewer Award
• lecturer conducting specialisation courses in Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology
• lecturer at the 2nd Webinar of the Polish Society of Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology (2021)
• reviewer of scientific papers, including as part of the Reviewer Board of the Journal of Personalized Medicine (JPM); Review Editor in Frontiers in Endocrinology and Frontiers in Pediatrics
• editor and translator (from English) of textbooks concerning endocrinology and paediatrics
• member of scientific associations: Polish Society of Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology (PTEiDD), Polish Paediatric Society (PTP)

Publications:

• “Pulmonary Hypertension and Hypothyroidism – Still an Important Clinical Coincidence in Paediatric Population, an Endocrinologist’s Point of View”. Life 2024;14,302;
• “The Need for Earlier Diagnosis of Obstructed Hemivagina and Ipsilateral Renal Agenesis/Anomaly (OHVIRA) Syndrome in Case of Renal Agenesis in Girls – Case Report and Review of the Literature”. J. Clin. Med. 2023;12,7284;
• “Primary Congenital Hypothyroidism in Children Below 3 Years Old – Etiology and Treatment with Overtreatment and Undertreatment Risks, a 5-Year Single Centre Experience”. Front. Endocrinol. 2022;13:895507;
• “Effects of Recombinant Human Growth Hormone Treatment, Depending on the Therapy Start in Different Nutritional Phases in Paediatric Patients with Prader-Willi Syndrome: A Polish Multicentre Study”. J. Clin. Med. 2021;10:3176; award for an author of an original article published in 2021 (the Children’s Memorial Health Institute);
• “Thyroid hormone resistance syndrome due to mutations in the thyroid hormone receptor alpha gene (THRA)”. J. Med. Gen. 2015;52(5):312-316; the publication was honoured by the Children’s Memorial Health Institute with the Scientific Award in 2015;
• “Rozbieżności w rozpoznaniu klinicznym i histopatologicznym guzów kory nadnerczy u dzieci” (“Discrepancies in the clinical and histopathological diagnosis of adrenocortical tumours in children”). End. Ped. 2005;4(13):55 61; the publication was honoured in the Competition held by the Polish Society of Paediatric Endocrinology with the Tomasz E. Romer Award for the best publication in the field of paediatric endocrinology in 2005;
• textbook chapter: Zespół Pradera i Willego (Prader-Willi syndrome). “Choroby rzadkie”, Standardy Medyczne, 2020.

Location:

Medicover Centre Inflancka
Inflancka 5
00-189 Warszawa