Wlodzimierz Lewelt
Physician, anesthesiologist
Born Sept. 27, 1941, Lublin, Poland; came to U.S., 1982; son of Edward and Halina (Rzewuska); married Maria (Gromnicka); children: Aga J., Karina M., Michal.
Education: Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), 1965, Ph.D., 1976, Lublin Medical Academy; diploma (in African studies), University of Warsaw (Poland), 1967.
Career: chief, Division of Anesthesia, State Clinical Hospital, Lublin, 1976-82; associate prof., Department of Anesthesiology, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, 1982 -.
Author: over 50 scientific publications in the area of neuroanesthesia, regulation of blood supply to the brain, traumatic injury of brain in Polish, American and Western European journals; over 30 presentations at scientific meetings and conferences.
Member of: founder, board member, International Cerebral Hemodynamics Society; Polish Society of Anesthesiologists (vice president, Lublin chapter, 1974-78), and Polish Society of Neurosurgeons, 1967-83; International Anesthesia Research Society; Society of Neurosurgical Anesthesia and Critical Care; American Society of Anesthesiologists.
Honors: doctoral dissertation award, Polish Society of Neurosurgeons, 1977.
Languages: Polish, English, French, Russian.
Hobbies: classical music, skiing, windsurfing.
Office: Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia, Department of Anesthesiology, MCV Campus, PO. Box 695, Richmond, VA 23298.
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation,
New York, NY, 1996