The liver transplant team from UCC MUW at the Warsaw Metropolitan Archbishop

On June 12, at the invitation of Warsaw Metropolitan Archbishop Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz, a team from the Department of General, Transplant and Liver Surgery hosted a meeting at the Warsaw Archbishops' House. Also present at the meeting was Bishop Andrzej Czaja of Opole, a member of the Permanent Council of the Polish Bishops' Conference. During the meeting, current issues concerning Polish transplantology and new challenges facing it were discussed.

The transplant team was represented by:

  • Prof. Michał Grąt, Head of the Department of General, Transplant and Liver Surgery UCC MUW, national consultant in clinical transplantology,
  • Prof. Tadeusz Wróblewski, Vice Head of the Department,
  • surgeons: Prof. Waldemar Patkowski, Maciej Krasnodębski, MD, PhD, Dr. Ireneusz Grzelak,
  • anesthesiologists:  Wojciech Figiel, MD, PhD, Dr. Marta Dec, 
  • Dr. Krzysztof Korzeniowski, interventional radiologist, 
  • Prof. Marek Krawczyk, former rector of our university, long-time head of the Department, 
  • Krzysztof Zając, MA, transplant coordinator, 
  • Dr. Magdalena Federowicz, physiotherapist, 
  • Marzena Karaban, MA, ward nurse, 
  • nurses: Anna Kołowrotna, Justyna Wrzesień, MA, Dorota Gwarda