The prestigious title of honorary doctor was awarded at the request of the Collegium Medicum UJK. The reviewers of the application were Professor Piotr Richter from the Jagiellonian University and Professor Grzegorz Wallner from the Medical University of Lublin.
This is a very special day for me. Due to the pandemic, the date of this ceremony was postponed by half a year. It is very difficult to collect thoughts from a few months ago. However, I would like to express my great gratitude. I accept this title with great humility. My emotion is indescribable. I did not dream that I would get such a privilege. This is a great honor for me. This obliges me to participate in the life of the university as I have become a member of this academic community - says Prof. Marek Krawczyk. The awarded is one of the most important figures in Polish medicine, he is a specialist in general and oncological surgery and clinical transplantology. Professor Marek Krawczyk is a full member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a correspondent member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was the head of the Department and Clinic of General, Transplant and Liver Surgery of the MUW for many years. As the head of the Department he created a liver transplantation program from a living donor. In 1999, the first successful harvesting of the liver fragment from a live donor for a child was performed in the Department (transplantation took place in the Children's Health Center).
Prof. Marek Krawczyk is a laureate of many domestic and foreign awards and distinctions, inter alia: the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice medal awarded by Pope Francis (2019), the French Order of Academic Palms (2014), the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2016). Moreover, the Professor is an honorary member of the Society of American Surgeons (2019) and many other Polish and foreign scientific societies.
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