Professor Robert Julian Gil, MD, Ph.D., a graduate of the Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin (September 1984) has been employed in Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration (MSWiA) in Warsaw since November 2001. Firstly as the head of the Department of Invasive Cardiology, one of the most efficient centres of Interventional Cardiology in Poland. Since June 2022, he has been the head of the Cardiology Clinic created as a result of the merger of two previously operating cardiological clinics.
In 1997-2004 he was the Chair of the Invasive Cardiology Section (Working Group) of the Polish Cardiac Society, and a member of its Board (as a past president) for the next 3 years. Since 2001 he has been in the Expert Team handling accreditation in cardiology appointed by the Polish Minister of Health. Since 2002 he has been a Consultant of Healthcare for the Ministry of the Interior and Administration in the field of cardiology. In October 2015 he was elected a Member of the Board of the Polish Cardiac Society for terms from 2015 to 2017. The elections in 2017 enabled him to serve for the next cadency as the chairman of the Foreign Commission. In the elections in 2021, he was elected president-elect of Polish Cardiac Society. In October 2023 he took over as President of Polish Cardiac Society. In addition he was also appointed as the Chair ESC Task Force for EuroAsia in the term 2024-2026.
His scientific achievements include: over 320 publications in peer-reviewed journals (total IF close to 800), co-authorship of over 30 chapters of books on interventional cardiology and more than 300 scientific reports presented at prestigious international conventions on clinical electrophysiology and invasive cardiology.
Since 2005 he has been a research fellow in the Mossakowski Medical Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. In June 2013 he was appointed as professor in that Institution. In September 2018, the Invasive Cardiology Clinic he managed received the affiliation of the Postgraduate Medical Education Center in Warsaw.
He initiated annual National Workshops on Interventional Cardiology, which after 5 editions in Szczecin was moved to Warsaw as the Warsaw Course on Cardiovascular Interventions (www.wcci.pl). Their 29th edition was in April 2025.
He co-authored the guidelines of the Invasive Cardiology Section of the Polish Cardiac Society concerning Invasive Cardiology.
Since 1994 he has been a scientific reviewer of monthly Kardiologia Polska, since 1998 – Folia Cardiologica (currently Cardiology Journal), and since 2000 – Polski Przegląd Kardiologiczny. In all of these magazines he is a member of Editorial Boards, and in Kardiologia Polska (Polish Heart Journal) was the editor of column “Angiogram of the month”. Since 2009 he has regularly reviewed papers sent by to the American Journal of Cardiology, EuroIntervention, Journal of Interventional Cardiology and Circulation.
In 1999 he was appointed as the editor-in-chief of the Invasive Cardiology Journal and is performing these functions up till today.
Since 1999 he has been active in the Working Group on coronary circulation of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), which in September 2006 transformed into the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI). He was assigned to its Grant Committee (2009) and to Nominating Committee (2021). In June 2000 he was awarded a prestigious title of the Fellow of European Society of Cardiology. Since 2007 he has been a member of the exclusive European Bifurcation Club handling the questions of diagnostics and treatment of bifurcation lesions.
Since 2001 he has been regularly invited to actively participate (Faculty member) in such prestigious Congresses and Workshops of Interventional Cardiology as: ESC Congress, EuroPCR, TCT, TCT Russia, ICI in Tel Aviv, CBS in Nanjing, European Bifurcation Club meetings and many national congresses.