Henryk Skarzynski (born 1954) is a Polish doctor otolaryngologist, audiologist and phoniatrist, creator and director of Warsaw Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing and World Hearing Center in Kajetany. Professor Skarzynski is the author and co-author of numerous scientific works, he is a supervisor of PhD dissertations, member of scientific and foreign associations. He performed the first operation of cochlear implantation in Poland and Central Europe in 1992, restoring hearing ability to a partially deaf adult. Skarzynski calls this procedure "partial deafness cochlear implantation". He later performed the same procedure on a child in 2004. Biography He graduated in 1979 with a Doctor of Medicine from the Medical Faculty of Medical Academy of Warsaw. He went to receive a PhD in medicine in 1983, and a habilitated PhD in 1989. He was made professor extraordinarius at the Medical Academy of Warsaw in 1993, and full Professor of Medicine in 1995. He was granted three honorary titles of doctor honoris causa - the Maria Grzegorowska Academy of Special Education in Warsaw in 2011, University of Warsaw and 2012 and Maria Curie Skłodowska University in Lublin in 2014. Achievements Professional 1992 - Implementation of deafness treatment program in Poland using cochlear implants. 1998 - Implementation of deafness and cancer lesions treatment program in Poland using brain stem implants. 1998 - Implementation of early detection of hearing loss in newborns and infants program in Poland. 1999 - globally original program of universal hearing, speech and vision tests on the Internet. 2002 - July 12 the world's first cochlear implant surgery in an adult patient with partial deafness. 2003 - Poland's first cochlear implant surgery for middle ear. Dozens of new clinical procedures. 2004 - September - the first operation in the world of a child with partial hearing loss. Scientific 2001 - development of new, original ways of the middle ear reconstructive surgery with the use of alloplastic materials (glass ionomers) 2002 - development of new diagnostic tools - audiometer Kuba Mikro 2002 – development of PDCI (Partial Deafness cochlear implantation) - unique in the world method of partial deafness treatment (PDT - Partial Deafness Treatment) that allows to correct the comfort of hearing using cochlear implant maintaining the present hearing. Medical 2000 - development of the tasks assigned by the Minister of Health, worldly original multimedia programs for early detection of hearing, speech and vision defects. 2004 - development of telemedicine