David Cibula

David Cibula, MD, PhD is Head of the Gynecological Oncology Centre and Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics at Charles University Prague, where he leads one of Central Europe's largest and most internationally recognized gynecologic oncology programs. He is among Europe's foremost authorities on cervical cancer surgery, with a career focused on optimizing radical hysterectomy technique, nerve-sparing surgery to reduce morbidity, and the implementation of sentinel lymph node mapping in cervical and endometrial cancer staging. Professor Cibula played a significant role in the critical re-evaluation of minimally invasive radical hysterectomy following the LACC trial, and has been a central contributor to ESGO (European Society of Gynaecological Oncology) surgical quality and outcome studies demonstrating that surgical center volume, surgical technique fidelity, and colpotomy method are critical determinants of recurrence risk in early cervical cancer. He co-led the ESGO/ESTRO/ESP cervical cancer guideline development and has published extensively on quality indicators for cervical cancer surgery, sentinel lymph node detection algorithms, and fertility-sparing approaches. Dr. Cibula has been principal investigator for multiple European multicenter surgical studies and has authored over 200 peer-reviewed publications. He is a past president of the Czech Gynecological and Obstetrical Society and was chair of the ESGO Scientific Committee.