Michal graduated from Colorado School of Mines with a degree in Chemistry & Biochemistry in 2013. He then pursued his graduate studies in biomedical engineering at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus as a member of Dr. Dunbar Ivy’s pediatric pulmonary hypertension lab at Children’s Hospital Colorado. His research focused on investigating flow hemodynamics in pulmonary hypertension using 4-dimensional flow MRI imaging. In 2015, he earned a Master’s degree in biomedical engineering and continued his PhD studies, analyzing intracardiac flow patterns in congenital heart disease. In 2015, Michal joined the research team of Dr. Max Mitchell and began work on flow analysis in patients undergoing surgical repair of Tetralogy of Fallot and hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Under the mentorship of Dr. Mitchell and Dr. Ivy, Michal earned his PhD in 2018 in biomedical engineering. Michal Is presently a second-year medical student at the University of Colorado and is continuing his research efforts in cardiovascular imaging with the cardiothoracic team at Children’s Hospital Colorado.