Awards will be presented in three categories: Health Market Manager, Health Market Doctor and Health Market Event. The winners will be selected by a jury consisting of the winners of the previous years' Portraits of Polish Medicine awards, representatives of various health care sectors and representatives of the Rynek Zdrowia editorial board.
Last year we awarded:
HEALTH MARKET MANAGER
Portrait of Polish Medicine (ex aequo):
- Maciej Miłkowski, Deputy Minister of Health
Tomasz Stefaniak, MD, Medical Director of the University Clinical Centre in Gdańsk
Distinction: - Prof. Janusz Kowalewski, director of the Prof. Franciszek Łukaszczyk Oncology Centre in Bydgoszcz
DOCTOR OF THE HEALTH MARKET
Portrait of Polish Medicine:
- Prof. Witold Rzyman, head of the Department of Thoracic Surgery of the Medical University of Gdańsk at the University Clinical Centre in Gdańsk
First Distinction:
- Prof. Andrzej Matyja, Head of the 2nd Department of General Surgery at the Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum
Second award:
- Prof. Wojciech Szczeklik, Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum, Head of the Centre for Intensive Care and Perioperative Medicine, member of the Council of Experts of the Supreme Medical Chamber
HEALTH MARKET EVENT
Portrait of Polish Medicine:
- The first liver transplantation in Polish transplantology of two patients, after division of the organ, taken from a single donor, performed at the Department of General, Transplant and Liver Surgery of the Warsaw Medical University
First award:
- Two simultaneous lung and heart transplant operations at the University Clinical Centre in Gdańsk
Second award:
- Participation of the Polish Medical Mission in successive humanitarian and medical aid actions building a positive image of Poland abroad