Draft:Michael Hibner
Polish-American gynecologic surgeon and academic
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Michael Hibner (born April 29, 1968) is a Polish-American urogynecological surgeon and academic physician. On January 1, 2026, he assumed the presidency of AAGL (formerly the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists), an international medical society for minimally invasive gynecology.[1] Hibner is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Creighton University School of Medicine and the founder of the Arizona Center for Chronic Pelvic Pain (AZCCPP) in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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April 29, 1968
Cook County Hospital (residency)
Mayo Clinic (fellowship)
Michael Hibner | |
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| Born | Michal Hibner April 29, 1968 Otwock, Poland |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Education | Medical University of Warsaw (MD, 1992; PhD, 2001) |
| Alma mater | Medical University of Warsaw Cook County Hospital (residency) Mayo Clinic (fellowship) |
| Occupations | Gynecologic surgeon, academic physician |
| Known for | Chronic pelvic pain surgery, pudendal nerve decompression, robotic gynecologic surgery |
| Title | President, AAGL |
| Spouse | Aleksandra "Ola" Hibner (m. 2022) |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | Honorary Member, Polish-American Medical Society (2014) |
| Website | azccpp |
Hibner is the lead editor of the textbook Management of Chronic Pelvic Pain: A Practical Manual, published by Cambridge University Press in 2021.[2]
Early life and education
Michael Hibner was born on April 29, 1968, in Otwock, Poland. His mother was an ENT surgeon at the Medical University of Warsaw and his father was an engineer. He spent a portion of his childhood in Nigeria before returning to Poland to complete his medical studies.[3]
Hibner earned his medical degree (MD) from the Medical University of Warsaw in 1992 and a PhD in 2001. His doctoral thesis applied chaos theory to medicine, specifically the non-linear dynamics analysis of fetal heart rate variability.[4] He moved to the United States in 1994, completing a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County (1995–2000) and a fellowship in Advanced Gynecologic Surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale (2000–2003).
Career
From 2005 to 2020, Hibner served as the Director of the Division of Gynecologic Surgery at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix. Under his leadership, the division received national recognition from U.S. News & World Report, which ranked St. Joseph's gynecology program #19 in the nation in 2018.[5] In 2020, he established the Arizona Center for Chronic Pelvic Pain.
Surgical research and methodology
Hibner’s clinical research focuses on surgical management for pudendal neuralgia and complications related to pelvic mesh implants.[6]
Pudendal nerve decompression
Pudendal nerve decompression is a specialized procedure with a limited number of practitioners in the United States. Following clinical training in France under Professor Roger Robert in 2005, Hibner became an early provider of transgluteal pudendal neurolysis in North America.[3] He has since documented modifications to the surgical technique, including the use of a neurosurgical microscope and specialized ENT instruments to facilitate higher magnification during neurolysis.[7] In a 2012 article in the Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology, Hibner and colleagues described a modified transgluteal approach to release the nerve from pelvic entrapment points.[8]
Robotic surgery
Hibner was an early adopter of gynecologic robotic surgery (2002), performing procedures on the Zeus Robotic Surgical System and later the Da Vinci Surgical System. He has published review articles on the evolution of robotic platforms in complex benign gynecology.[9]
Personal life
In 2022, Hibner married Aleksandra "Ola" Hibner (née Adamczak), a Polish physician specializing in neonatology. As of 2026, she is a neonatal-perinatal medicine fellow at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).[10] Her research focus includes the use of multimodal hemodynamic monitoring to predict neonatal intraventricular hemorrhage.[11]
Hibner has two children from a previous marriage, Jack and Annika. Jack Hibner is a student at Barrett, The Honors College at Arizona State University (ASU) majoring in physics and computational mathematical sciences; he served as a guest speaker on artificial intelligence at the 2025 AAGL Global Congress.[12] Annika Hibner is a premed student at ASU and a research contributor at UCSD. In January 2026, she received a Travel Award from the Western Society for Pediatric Research (WSPR) for her research, "Lung Epithelial Cell Diversity and Response to Hyperoxia in the Neonatal Mouse," presented at the Western Medical Research Conference in Carmel.[13]