Professor Beata Kos-Kudla is Chair of the the Department of Endocrinology and Neuroendocrine Tumors at the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. She is a specialist in internal medicine, endocrinology, and nuclear medicine, and is actively involved in education and training both domestically and abroad. Her scientific interests focus on clinical and experimental endocrinology. She is an advocate for true and extensive cooperation among all neuroendocrine tumour (NET) specialists in order to boost rapid development of this discipline. She founded the Polish Network of Neuroendocrine Tumors and the Polish National Register of NETs; she currently serves as Chair of both. She is President of The Polish Society of Endocrinology. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the European Neuroendocrine Tumor Society (ENETS). She was also served as a member of the Executive Committee of ESE and ENETS. She has published over 500 publications in Polish and foreign medical journals, textbooks and numerous communications from international and national conferences. She is an active participant in the work of many national and international scientific societies and organizer of numerous scientific congresses. She is Co-Editor in Chief of Endokrynologia Polska (The Polish Journal of Endocrinology), a member of the scientific boards of a number of medical journals.