CARDIAC Silesian Rehabilitation Workshop

12-14.09.2025

The CARDIAC Silesian Rehabilitation Workshop is focused on the exercise training programming for patients with cardiovascular diseases.

12-14.09.2025

CARDIAC Silesian Rehabilitation Workshop

The CARDIAC Silesian Rehabilitation Workshop is focused on the exercise training programming for patients with cardiovascular diseases.

About the event

CARDIAC Silesian Rehabilitation Workshop
12-14.09.2025

The cardiac rehabilitation workshop is focused on the exercise training programming for patients with cardiovascular diseases. The event is divided into three distinct modules: exercise testing, exercise programming and exercise training. By incorporating both lectures and interactive practical part workshop participants should be familiar with main topics. Course includes the optional cardiopulmonary exercise testing workshop conducted by the expert in this field.

The event is dedicated to:

exercise specialists (physiotherapists, exercise physiologists),
physiotherapy students,
nurses
physicians involved in cardiac rehabilitation field (cardiologists, rehabilitation and internal medicine specialists).

The workshop is accredited by the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation and is held under the patronage of the Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Physiology Group of the Polish Cardiac Society. The participants will receive additional online course materials (appendix, simple exercise calculator and bibliography). This workshop. If you are interested in exercise training programming, apply for the workshop now!

Benefits for Participants

Unique knowledge of individual ramp stress tests, training intensity programming formulas and numerous training protocols,
the opportunity to exchange experiences with students from abroad,
access to course materials.

Certificate of

Course with 12 educational credits the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation.

Workshop program

Presenters
CARDIAC Silesian Rehabilitation Workshop
13-14.09.2025

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Adam Piotr Staroń, MD, PhD

A cardiologist with over 20 years (since 2001) experience in clinical cardiology and almost 10 years’ experience in cardiac rehabilitation (since 2014). In 2014 he established Cardiac Rehabilitation Department in Katowice, Poland, and implemented there as first in Poland yoga and tai chi. He has been working there until Dec 2015, overseeing 11- beds residential Cardiac Rehabilitation Department. Between 2016 and 2022 Work he has been working at Prince Sultan Cardiac Center Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he established the first cardiac rehabilitation program in the Kingdom in 2018, then he has written as co-author curriculum of the Cardiac Rehabilitation Fellowship for certified cardiologists and physiatrists, approved by Saudi Council for Health Specialties.

In 2022 as main author he published a textbook: “Exercise prescription in cardiac rehabilitation” published by MDPI. In Febr 2023 he established Cardiac Rehabilitation Department in Gliwice, Poland (24 beds residential cardiac rehabilitation department specifically dedicated to early post-myocardial infarction patients). Currently he is serving as a Head of Cardiac Rehabilitation Department in the Upper Silesian Medical Center in Katowice, Poland.

During last 10 years he attended numerous international and domestic cardiac rehabilitation courses, e.g., Bern (EAPC course), Hong Kong, Nottingham (BACPR course). Dr Staron serves as a Board Member of the Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Physiology Group of the Polish Cardiac Society.

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Jerzy Rybicki, MD, PhD

Specialist in internal medicine and rehabilitation. He has been working at Repty Rehabilitation Center in Tarnowskie Gory, Poland since 1983 until 2017 He served as a Head of Cardiac Rehabilitation Department (50-beds residential cardiac rehabilitation) between 2006 and 2017.

Dr Rybicki has been actively involved as Board Member of the Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Physiology Group of the Polish Cardiac Society in development of cardiac rehabilitation programs. He is an author and co-author of 6 textbooks published in Polish language and 63 peer-reviewed articles. Area of his special interest is exercise testing –Dr Rybicki implemented individual ramp tests on treadmill known in Poland as Rybicki 5, Rybicki 6.5 etc. to attain specific number of METs exactly at 10 min of the test.

Workshop program
12-14.09.2025

12 September 2025 (Friday)

Cardiopulmonary testing workshop

14:45 - 15:00
Opening

15:00 - 16:30
Basics of Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing: Indications, Key Parameters, and Practical Interpretation
Prof. Krzysztof Smarż, MD, PhD, DSc (Med

16:30 - 16:45
Coffee break

16:45 - 19:00
Practical part
Prof. Krzysztof Smarż, MD, PhD, DSc (Med

19:00 - 19:30
Discussion

19:30 - 19:45
Closing and awarding of Certificates

13 September 2025 (Saturday)

9:00 -9:15
Opening ceremony

9:15-9:45
Electrocardiography as a Tool in Cardiac Rehabilitation
Prof. Małgorzata Kurpesa, MD, PhD, DSc (Med.)

9:45-10:15
Exercise - related cardiovascular events
Prof. Krzysztof Milewski, MD, PhD, DSc (Med.)

10:15-10:45
Cardio-Exercise Oncology: Implications from Sports Science to Improve Heart Health
Christina M. Dieli-Conwright, PhD, MPH, FACSM

10:45-11:15
Bridging the Gap: Transforming Cardiac Rehabilitation Research into Clinical Practice'
Zainab Adenwalla, M.Sc.

11:15-11:30
Coffee break

11:30-12:45
Exercise testing
Jerzy Rybicki, PhD, DSc (Med.), Adam Staron, PhD, DSc (Med.)

12:45-13:30
Lunch

13:30-15:00
Exercise programming
Jerzy Rybicki, PhD, DSc (Med.), Adam Staron, PhD, DSc (Med.)

15:00-15:30
Coffee break

15:30-17:00
Exercise prescription in practice
Jerzy Rybicki, PhD, DSc (Med.), Adam Staron, PhD, DSc (Med.)

18:00-21:00
Gala dinner

14 September 2025 (Sunday)

8:00-8:30
Technomex & X-Rehab workshop
Wojciech Gąsior, MSc (Med.)

8:30-9:00
Pulmonary rehabilitation
Dr Amal AlBatini

9:00-11:00
Exercise training protocols
Jerzy Rybicki, PhD, DSc (Med.), Adam Staron, PhD, DSc (Med.)

11:00-11:10
Coffee break

11:10-12:50
Practical part
Jerzy Rybicki, PhD, DSc (Med.), Adam Staron, PhD, DSc (Med.)

13:00-13:45
Lunch

13:45-15:15
Practical part
Jerzy Rybicki, PhD, DSc (Med.), Adam Staron, PhD, DSc (Med.)

15:15-15:30
Discussion

15:30-15:45
Closing and awarding of Certificates

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Contact

Aleksander Kotulecki
Email: akotulecki@x-rehab.pl

Phone: +48 (32) 401 03 50 ext.28
Monday - Friday 7:00 - 15:30