- We can see an increase in donations in 2023; by November 27, 2023, 100 more organs were transplanted to patients than in the preceding year. Still, the organ recipient lists are getting longer every year - said prof. Maciej Kosieradzki, chair of the General Surgery and Transplantation Surgery Clinical Department of the Medical University of Warsaw Clinical Center (UCK WUM), during the conference at which the “Give Life” educational campaign was summarized.

Rector Prof. Zbigniew Gaciong met with Roman Shepeljak - Counsellor-Minister of the Embassy of Ukraine in the Republic of Poland, Mykola Hranovskyy - First Secretary of the Embassy of Ukraine in the Republic of Poland, and Orest Chemerys - Rector of the Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University. They discussed further cooperation and providing assistance to Ukraine.

The title was awarded to him for the fourth time in the Guttmann plebiscite of the Polish Paralympic Committee. He was honored for leading the Polish national team of people with disabilities in table tennis and the success it achieved in this year's European Championships.

The Foundation for the Development of the Medical University of Warsaw, with financial support from the Rotary Club Warsaw City and the Rotary Club Milano Nord, runs the STOP Cancer Program. Its goal is early and accurate diagnosis of neoplastic (cancerous) lesions leading to a better tailored treatment procedure, improvement of the patient's quality of life during therapy, longer patient life and reduction of treatment costs.

On November 23, 2023 our University was officially assigned the PCTN observer status. What are the implications of that? First of all, there is the opportunity to use advanced clinical trial solutions.

On November 27, 2023, an opening lecture in the field of public health was presented at WUM, entitled “Monitoring infectious diseases in the post-pandemic era.” It was delivered by Izabela Kucharska, MD PhD, PhD in Health Sciences, deputy Chief Sanitary Inspector. Faculty of Medicine students and staff of university hospitals were in the audience.

Tomasz Dzierżanowski, MD-PhD hab., received the OMNIA PRO INFIRMIS 2023: All for Patients award for physicians who are also community activists, especially devoted to their patients. These are awarded by the Wprost editorial staff in their “Visionaries of Health” ranking.

What is the Board, what are its structures, how does it work for nurses and midwives? Mariola Łodzińska, president of the National Board of Nurses and Midwives, talked about this to 1st year nursing students. This is valuable knowledge because this professional government was established for such purposes as representing people in nursing and midwife jobs. It is also valuable because membership is mandatory for graduates in these specializations as soon as they become licensed professionals.

- The procedure is an opportunity for patients with chest pain persisting despite previously available treatments, such as stent implantation and pharmacotherapy - says Mariusz Tomaniak, MD, PhD, from the 1st Chair and Department of Cardiology MUW. And he stresses that this is a relatively large patient population.

The appointment letters were received by Dr. Joanna Chmielewska-Walczak, Dr. Aleksandra Paź, Małgorzata Mizerska-Wasiak, MD, PhD, and Dr. Piotr Palczewski. The appointment letters were presented by: Sylwester Dąbrowski, Vice Governor of the Mazovian Province, and Urszula Kuroczycka, Vice Director of the Health Department of the Mazovian Voivodship Office in Warsaw.