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Pawel Tabakow is a Polish neurosurgeon who is known for prepared and performing the operation that allowed Darek Fidyka to recover sensory and motor function after the complete severing of his spinal cord. Tabakow has claimed that an Indian ambassador and other people from round the world have contacted him about performing similar treatments.

Biography

Pawel Tabakow was born in Sofia,Bulgaria in 1975 and is a son of Bulgarian mathematician Iwan Tabakow. He graduated from the German High School in Sofia in 1994 and enrolled to study medicine in Wroclaw, Poland.

He works in Department of Neurosurgery at Wroclaw Medical University, and works at Wroclaw University Hospital. He led the Polish research team for Darek Fidyka's operation.


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