Hospital selects new president of staff
Niesluchowski will lead St. John's hospitals

The medical staff at St. John's Regional Medical Center and St. John's Pleasant Valley Hospital has elected Witold Niesluchowski, MD, as president of medical staff for 2008 and 2009.

A member of the medical staff at St. John's hospitals since November 1983, Niesluchowski has held several medical staff leadership roles, including chair of the Department of Surgery.

He has also served as president of the Ventura County Division of the American Heart Association. He specializes in vascular and thoracic surgery and varicose vein surgery.

Niesluchowski was born in Poland and completed medical school at the Medical University of Warsaw, where he was a faculty member in the Department of Surgery.

After medical school he completed an internship and general surgery residency at Cincinnati General Hospital in Ohio in 1978. He was a research fellow for the MinnaJamesHeinemann Foundation in Charlotte, N.C. and in 1983 Niesluchowski completed his cardiovascular residency at Charlotte Memorial Hospital.

Niesluchowski is married and has four children, two of whom were recruited to play hockey at Cornell University in New York.