The run, or more precisely the march with Nordic walking poles, took place on September 21 on the premises of the King John III Palace Museum in Wilanów. Relay teams were made up of transplant patients, family donors, young people, athletes, journalists, actors and representatives of the medical world. The representatives from our university were:
- Prof. Roman Danielewicz from the Department of Surgical and Transplantation Nursing and Extracorporeal Therapies UCC MUW
- Prof. Michał Grąt, Prof. Joanna Raszeja-Wyszomirska and Maciej Krasnodębski, MD, PhD, from the Chair and Department of General, Transplant and Liver Surgery UCC MUW
- Prof. Magdalena Durlik and Jolanta Gozdowska, MD, PhD, from the Department of Transplantation Medicine, Nephrology and Internal Diseases UCC MUW
- Prof. Zbigniew Gałązka, Prof. Tomasz Jakimowicz and Prof. Sławomir Nazarewski from the Department of General, Vascular, Endocrine and Transplant Surgery UCC MUW
- Prof. Mariusz Kuśmierczyk, Prof. Małgorzata Sobieszczańska-Małek, Dr Zygmunt Kaliciński, Dr Michał Buczyński from the Department of Heart, Thoracic and Transplant Surgery UCC MUW
- Dorota Miszewska Szyszkowska, MD, from the Department of Transplantation Medicine and Nephrology at the Infant Jesus Hospital in Warsaw UCC MUW
- Dr Agnieszka Jóźwik, from the Department of General and Transplantation Surgery UCC MUW
- Marta Maskey-Warzęchowska, MD, PhD, from the Department of Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Diseases and Allergy UCC MUW
- Krzysztof Zając, transplant coordinator at the Central Clinical Hospital UCC MUW
- Anna Lis, transplant coordinator at the Infant Jesus Hospital in Warsaw UCC MUW
- Edyta Karpeta, transplant coordinator at the Infant Jesus Hospital in Warsaw UCC MUW
- Dominik Olejniczak, MD, PhD, from the Department of Public Health MUW, and MUW student Izabela Lipnicka
All of them are specialists associated with transplant medicine and beyond, who save people's health and lives on a daily basis and actively work to build positive attitudes toward organ transplantation.
Each participant had to walk a symbolic 1-kilometer section of the route. The team with the best time won, but due to the idea of the run, all participants are winners.
Our students from public health and medical studies were also involved in organizing the 25th Run for a New Life. They were: Urszula Szachowska, Maciej Kruppe, Adrianna Stępień, Wojtek Płuciennik, Kamila Mouche, Adrianna Wacko, Izabela Piekarska, Paulina Koczkodaj, Weronika Kowalczyk, Adrian Góral, Patrycja Kowalska, Szymon Ejzak, Karolina Kędziela. All of them are members of the SKN Public Health - Health Promotion Section.
As a gesture to help those affected by the catastrophic flooding in Lower Silesia, Opole and Upper Silesia, a collection of food and hygiene products was organized during the run for those affected by the flooding.
Photo: Run for New Life, https://www.facebook.com/biegponowe
