Prof. Mariusz Kuśmierczyk is Head of the Department of Heart, Chest and Transplant Surgery UCC MUW. He was appointed to the position of national consultant in cardiac surgery on August 12 by Minister of Health Izabela Leszczyna. The term will last five years.

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It protects against bacterial diseases, viral diseases and allergies, pushes back the specter of obesity and reduces the risk of cancer for both baby and mother - that's what breast milk is. Unfortunately, not all children have the chance to have the “gold standard of nutrition.” It is them that the 33rd World Breastfeeding Week, inaugurated by the Medical Center MUW conference, is dedicated to.

A novel self-expanding coronary sinus reducer, the A-Flux Reducer System, was used in the 1st Chair and Department of Cardiology. This was the first application of this system in Poland, and at the same time the first implantation of this device in the world in a patient with refractory angina in the course of coronary microvascular disease.

It was a big celebration at the Faculty of Health Sciences and two ceremonies in one day. At the first one - diplomas were awarded to 450 people who graduated with second-cycle studies in nursing and midwifery, first-cycle studies in medical emergency medicine, and first- and second-cycle studies in dietetics and public health. Meanwhile, during the second ceremony, the capping and presentation of diplomas was held for 329 graduates of first-cycle studies in nursing and midwifery.

The Medical University of Warsaw, in cooperation with the Medical Universities of Lublin and Białystok, is implementing a project of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education called “Preventive tests for the earliest possible diagnosis of chronic kidney disease among adolescents – urine screening in grades 3 and 4 of secondary schools”.

Our university hosted Prof. Mariia Hryshchuk, Vice Rector for Scientific and Pedagogical Work and International Relations, and Dr. Khrystyna Lesiv, Head of the International Relations Department from the Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University. The visit took place at the premises of the Medical University of Warsaw from 8 till 12 July 2024.

In the Department of General, Transplant and Liver Surgery UCC MUW, a team led by Prof. Michal Grąt has performed the world's first liver supportive transplantation in a patient following injury to her own organ as a result of a traffic accident. By taking advantage of the regenerative capacity of the patient's own remaining liver fragment, with the temporary support of the transplanted deceased donor liver fragment, the 50-year-old patient avoided transplantation of the entire organ, left the hospital with her own healthy liver, does not require immunosuppressive treatment and did not develop significant complications. This groundbreaking procedure was the subject of a press conference held at MUW.

W Klinice Chirurgii Ogólnej, Transplantacyjnej i Wątroby UCK WUM, zespół pod kierunkiem prof. Michała Grąta, przeprowadził  pierwsze na świecie przeszczepienie wspomagające wątroby u chorej po urazie własnego narządu w wyniku wypadku komunikacyjnego. Dzięki wykorzystaniu zdolności regeneracyjnych pozostałego fragmentu własnej wątroby chorej, przy czasowym wsparciu przeszczepionego fragmentu wątroby zmarłego dawcy, 50-letnia pacjentka uniknęła transplantacji całego narządu, wyszła ze szpitala z własną zdrową wątrobą, nie wymaga leczenia immunosupresyjnego i nie doszło u niej do rozwoju istotnych powikłań. Ten przełomowy zabieg był tematem konferencji prasowej zorganizowanej na WUM.

Our university was ranked 10th in the Academic Universities Ranking 2024, which included 103 domestic public and non-public universities. It is worth noting that MUW is the only medical university ranked in the top 10 of this ranking. MUW thus took the first place in the list of medical universities 2024. This is another confirmation of the rank of our university on the educational map of Poland.