High-altitude medicine, training, and consultations – from planning to the summit.
Dr Patrycja Jonetzko
Dr Patrycja Jonetzko is an experienced expedition doctor specializing in high-altitude medicine.
Since 2006, she has been preparing and providing medical support for ascents of the world’s highest mountains. Her journey with altitude began while running a rescue post in Machermo, in the Gokyo Ri Valley of the Nepalese Himalayas, at an altitude of 4,500 meters. Over the past two decades, she has taken part in professional Himalayan expeditions, supporting, among others, the Polish ascent of Everest in 2006 and an attempt to summit K2 in 2010. She has collaborated with renowned climbers including Anna Czerwińska, Kinga Baranowska, and Martyna Wojciechowska.
In addition to supporting high-altitude expeditions, Patrycja also accompanies commercial trekking trips on all continents. For over 15 years, she has been working with the agency Adventure24.pl in Poland and with numerous travel companies in the United Kingdom. Since 2010, she has been conducting mountain and high-altitude medicine training courses together with Tomek Kobielski.
Patrycja’s greatest passion is helping people with medical conditions reach high altitudes and optimizing ascent strategies with a strong focus on safety. Throughout her many years of experience, she has supported individuals with diabetes, vision impairments, cardiovascular diseases, physical disabilities, and transplant recipients – including participants of the “Bone Marrow to the Summit” initiative.
Patrycja is a graduate of the Silesian Medical Academy in Zabrze and a doctoral candidate at the Medical University of Innsbruck (Austria). In 2005, she earned a diploma in travel and tropical medicine from Mahidol University in Bangkok (Thailand). Before starting her specialization, she worked in Uganda and Nepal. After returning to Europe, she completed a second-level specialization in cardioanesthesiology and intensive care, supplemented by emergency medicine (HEMS) as well as patient transport and repatriation medicine for critically ill patients in the United Kingdom.
On a daily basis, she works as a consultant cardioanesthesiologist and intensive care specialist in the cardiac surgery department at an academic hospital in Plymouth, United Kingdom. In addition to her hospital work, she serves as a consultant for the transport and repatriation of critically ill patients – both domestically (ambulance and helicopter transports) and internationally (air transport).
An off-piste skiing and ski touring enthusiast, she divides her time between working in the United Kingdom and the winter season in Val d’Isère in the French Alps, where she has lived at an altitude of 1,950 meters for over 15 years.