Five doctors associated with our University received from the hands of the Mazovia Province Governor - Konstanty Radziwill acts of appointment for the position of regional medical consultants. The handing over ceremony was held on May 19. In total, the governor announced five new consultants and handed out nine acts extending the term of office.

The Medal of Honor is the highest distinction of the Heart Rhythm Section of the Polish Cardiac Society. Prof. Opolski from the 1st Chair and Department of Cardiology UCC MUW, its long-standing head, was awarded for his contribution to the development of electrophysiology and electrotherapy in Poland. In particular, for the determination to make cardiology a basic specialization, which enabled the education of new medical students, increased the number of cardiology specialists and significantly improved the quality of cardiac care in Poland. And also for building the brand of the 1st Chair and Department of Cardiology at MUW.

The 13th edition of the contest is underway. The finalists in particular fields have just been selected. In the Medicine and Pharmacy category, the top ten went to Tomasz Grzywa and Przemysław Kasiak from MUW.

Three inventions of the scientific teams from our University were awarded during the 15th International Invention and Innovation Show INTARG. Two gold medals, one silver and two special awards are the balance of the MUW participation in the event. The international jury appreciated the innovations taking into account their level of novelty, market demand for the product, comparison with global counterparts and level of sophistication.

The FNP has announced the results of the START 2022 scholarship program. This year's competition received 794 nominations. One hundred have been selected. Among them were four young scientists from our University: Klaudyna Fidyt, PhD Eng., Dr. Łukasz Milanowski, Tomasz Grzywa and Jan Szczypiński.

As many as four innovative, socially necessary and ready to implement digital health projects made it to the finals of the Accelerator Program of the UW Incubator. Their authors are multidisciplinary teams composed of students from MUW and UW.

In another edition of the Academic Championships of Warsaw and Mazovia 2022, AZS WUM Sailing Section won silver in the general classification and a bronze medal in the team classification. - We are very proud because the stakes were high and the conditions were tough - says Julia Szmit, the president and coach of the AZS sailing section and the helmswoman of the crew that won the silver medal.

The procedure was performed in the Department of Pediatric Cardiology and General Pediatrics, UCC MUW. The child has been implanted with the latest generation dual-chamber defibrillator. This is the first procedure in Poland where this model was implanted in a child.

Mariusz Wylezol, MD, PhD, works at the 2nd Department of General, Vascular, and Oncological Surgery of the Medical University of Warsaw and is also the head of the Warsaw Center for Medical and Surgical Treatment of Obesity at Czerniakowski Hospital in Warsaw. He received the statuette for popularizing awareness of obesity as a disease that can and should be treated.

Agata Majewska has joined the Maternal and Fetal Disease Group in the Department of Women and Children's Health, King's College London. She is the only member of the team from outside the UK.