A graduate of the medical faculty of the Military Medical Academy in 1983. In 1988 he recieved the title of doctor of medical sciences, in 1997 the title of habilitated doctor and in 2002 the title of full professor. He worked at the Department of Neurosurgery at the Military Medical Academy in Łódź.In 1993, he completed a fellowship at the Department of Neurosurgery at the Toronto Western Hospital in Canada.  From 1994 to 2018, he headed the Department of Neurosurgery at the 10th Military Clinical Hospital in Bydgoszcz. In the years 2004-2022 he was employed as a professor at Collegium Medicum of the University of Nicolaus Copernicus in Toruń. Currently, he is employed as a clinical consultant at the Department of Neurosurgery of the 10th Military Clinical Hospital in Bydgoszcz and at the Department of Neurooncology and Radiosurgery at the Oncology Center in Bydgoszcz.

Since 2023 he is a scientific board member of The National Center of Research and Development in Warsaw. He is also a Member of the Board of the Polish Society of Neurosurgeons, member of the European Society of Neurosurgeons and the World Society of Neurosurgeons. He was a promoter of 10 doctorates. Author and co-author of about 170 scientific publications in journals or book chapters. He performed many pioneering operations in the field of functional neurosurgery in Poland. He is the founder of contemporary Polish psychosurgery. In 2002, a pioneering development of psychosurgical bilateral cingulotomy in obsessive-compulsive syndrome was carried out in Poland under his supervision. In 2004, the first bilateral deep stimulation of the cerebellum in Poland in the treatment of spasticity in cerebral palsy. In 2008 in Poland, he performed a vagal nerve stimulation in the treatment of drug-resistant depression. In 2011, he performed the first bilateral deep stimulation in Poland in drug-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder. In 2012, he performed the first surgery in Poland to treat pathological obesity with bilateral stimulation of the nucleus accumbens. In 2013, the world’s first surgery to treat self-destructive and aggressive behaviors with bilateral stimulation of the posterior hypothalamus and nucleus accumbens. He participated in many research programs mainly in the field of neuro-oncology and functional neurosurgery. He was acknowledged , among others, in 2018 with the title of „Promoter of Poland” awarded by the chapter of the „Teraz Polska” emblem. Also in 2018, the „Medal of the 100th Anniversary of Regaining Independence” on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Poland regaining independence, awarded by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. In 2019, the „Silver Cross of Merit” from the President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda. In 2020, the title of „Bydgoszcz Citizen of the Century” on the occasion of the return of Bydgoszcz to its homeland.

dr hab.n.med. Maciej Harat prof. UMK

koordynator Zakładu Neuroonkologii i Radiochirurgii Centrum Onkologii im. Prof.Franciszka Łukaszczyka w Bydgoszczy

Katedra Onkologii i Brachyterapii CM UMK