Mateusz Gładysz

My clinical work brings together surgery of the hand and upper limb and microsurgical reconstruction. Hand surgery includes fractures, tendon injuries and peripheral nerve conditions; reconstructive work includes complex soft-tissue defects after trauma or cancer surgery.

At Waikato Hospital, my reconstructive work includes lower-limb orthoplastic care alongside orthopaedic colleagues. I also treat melanoma and complex skin cancer, and chair the hospital’s Melanoma and High-Risk Skin Cancer multidisciplinary team.

My approach weighs what a patient needs, what surgery can offer and what is clinically appropriate.

I studied medicine at the Medical University of Warsaw and completed my postgraduate internship in Warsaw. Surgical foundation training at Universitätsspital Zürich was followed by plastic surgery training at Medizinische Hochschule Hannover.

The Perth International Plastic and Reconstructive Fellowship at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital provided my further training in microsurgical reconstruction. I then returned to Switzerland as an Oberarzt at Kantonsspital Aarau, working primarily within the hand surgery team. Since September 2025, I have worked as a consultant at Waikato Hospital.

I am a doctoral candidate at Universität Zürich, working towards the Dr. med. degree. The degree has not yet been awarded. My research concerns clinical documentation assisted by artificial intelligence (AI) in multilingual healthcare.

My 2026 proof-of-concept study in JMIR AI compared four documentation workflows with two physicians in simulated consultations. Earlier published work includes a burn-reconstruction case report in European Burn Journal.

This site contains patient information, procedure explanations and educational material for clinicians. The hand-surgery examination resources on learn.drgladysz.com are in English.

Consultations are conducted in English, Polish and German.