Jozef Cywinski

Businessman, scientist, inventor

Born Mar. 13, 1936, Warsaw, Poland; came to U.S., 1967; son of Kazimierz and Miroslawa (Niewiarowicz); married Hanna (Zawa); child: Lucjan.

Education: Master of Electrical Engineering (M.E.E.), 1960, Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) (in bioengineering), 1967, Technical University of Warsaw.

Career: vice president, co-founder, Ridan Medical Instruments, 1960-64, Warsaw; director, Medical Electronics Laboratory, lecturer, Institute of Cardiology, Warsaw University School of Medicine, 1964-67; associate prof. (physiology), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1967-69; associate prof. (radiology and electrical engineering), University of Missouri, Columbia, 1969-70; medical engineering director, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, 1970-82; president, Corsan Engineering, New York City, 1973 -; vice president, Medical & Biological Instrumentation, Inc., Hartsdale (NY), 1982-83; executive vice president, Medinet, Inc., Purchase (NY), 1983-86; founder, director, Secura Ltd., Warsaw, 1989 -.

Author: 12 patents on medical devices; co-author, 2 books on medical instrumentation; over 100 scientific publications.

Member of: delegate, The Presidential Trust Republican Party; executive committee member, Polish National Fund, New York City, 1991-92; fellow, American College of Cardiology; senior member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE).

Affiliation: Republican. Roman Catholic.

Languages: Polish, English, French, Russian.

Hobbies: outdoor recreation, victorian houses reconstruction.

Home: 35 Hendrickson Ave., Rockville Centre, NY 11570.

From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation, New York, NY, 1996