Archive - 2025
ShanghaiRanking Consultancy has published its international ranking of universities in 57 academic subjects. WUM was recognized in two of them: Medical Technology and Biological Sciences, with only one other Polish university included in either.
The 6th edition of the Executive SGH-WUM MBA in healthcare program has come to an end. On Saturday, November 22, 38 program graduates received their diplomas in the Main Auditorium of the Warsaw School of Economics.
This was a unique meeting that brought together medics from Poland and abroad, and gave them an opportunity to share experiences with regard to pre-hospital life-saving operations, prevention, and health education. Many renowned guests were invited, not only those working in medicine. They included representatives of the Senate, Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski, PhD, an engineer and astronaut, as well as Lech Wałęsa, former Polish President.
November 17 is the World Prematurity Day. Every year, WUM neonatology departments join in to celebrate their little warrior-patients. But November 17 is also a day to celebrate the staff of those departments, and their commitment to serve their little patients every day.
Our guests came from the two largest Lithuanian transplant centers in Vilnius and Kaunas. The visit is the result of international cooperation in the area of liver transplants that we plan to develop with centers in Lithuania.
At the Department of General, Vascular, Endocrine, and Transplant Surgery of UCK WUM, a transplant team performed a simultaneous transplant of both kidneys, connected en bloc, into an adult recipient. The organs were retrieved from a deceased pediatric donor.
The Omenaa Foundation and the Medical University of Warsaw have jointly undertaken activities to improve access to health care for children in Ghana. As part of the Health for Hope project, Polish physicians and medical students engage in volunteer work at the Child Protection Center and Kids Haven School, providing medical assistance and promoting health education within the local community.
From October 22 to 24 this year, the University of Cologne hosted ceremonies, conferences, and workshops marking the fifth anniversary of the EUniWell European University Alliance. The Medical University of Warsaw joined the alliance this year as one of its twelve member institutions.
A new chapter is opening in imaging technology. The modern computed tomography facility of the Department of Clinical Radiology at the WUM hospital is now operational.
Twenty-seven excellently educated graduates of the medical analytics program have completed their studies at our university. The formal graduation ceremony, held on October 25, crowned five years of their hard work and provided an opportunity to honor them and warmly welcome them into the community of laboratory diagnosticians.