Igor Simonik

Igor Šimonyk is the director of the St. Zdislava Hospital and deputy chief physician of the Robotic Surgery Center.

Since 2004, the doctor has been performing obesity treatment (bariatric surgery) using the Da Vinci robot and operations on the anterior abdominal wall (skin tightening on the abdomen, hernia removal).

Experience

• 1999-2004 — Oncological Surgical Hospital Brno, Czech Republic;
• Since 2004 – Director of the St. Zdislava Clinic.

Education

• 1994-1999 – studied general medicine at Masaryk University, Brno;
• 2002 – 1st degree certification in surgery;
• 2013 – license of senior physician and head of the surgery department;
• 2017-2018 — professional training program at Cambridge Business School Prague (MBA).

Internships

• 2005 – Bariatric surgery at the State Hospital Linz, Austria;
• 2007 – Minimally invasive bariatric surgery at the Rudolfstiftung Clinic, Vienna, Austria;
• 2007 – Da Vinci surgical system, Strasbourg, France;
• 2016 – Advanced revision bariatric surgery at Belinson-Rabin Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.