Dr Sebastian Szmit graduated from the Military Medical Academy in Poland. He began cardio-oncology activities in 2006 by working for the Department of Oncology of the Military Institute of Medicine.
Sebastian Szmit was appointed the executive editor of the Task Force of National Consultants in Cardiology and Clinical Oncology, to develop the first two Polish documents for Recommendations on cardiologic safety of patients with breast cancer (published in 2010) and lung cancer (published in 2012).
Since 2012 he has served as the cardio-oncology consultant at the Department of Pulmonary Circulation, Thromboembolic Diseases and Cardiology, and since 2015 as the scientific director of the training in Oncology and in Cardiology; at the Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education in Poland. He is the cardio-oncology research coordinator for the Polish Lymphoma Research Group and the Polish National Oncology Network.
He co-authored two educational books: Hypertension-oncology: arterial hypertension in cancer disease; and Cardiovascular complications in cancer patients; published in 2018 under auspices of the Polish Society of Clinical Oncology. Since 2019 he has been a Member of the Executive Committee of the Global Cardio-Oncology Summit (GCOS) and a Member of the Education & Training Advisory Committee of the International Cardio-Oncology Society (IC-OS).
Since 2020 he has been an Honorary Member of the Cardio-Oncology Society of Southern Africa (COSOSA), a Fellow of the International Cardio-Oncology Society (FICOS) and a Board Member of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Council of Cardio-Oncology. On his initiative, on May 26th 2021, the Scientific Council of the Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education decided to create the Cardiooncology Department with Echocardiography Laboratory; based at two hospitals: (1) European Health Centre in Otwock (oncology center); (2) Institute of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine in Warsaw.
