The Embassy of Japan has donated eight PARO seals - robots used, among other things, to treat post-traumatic stress disorder - to the Warsaw Family Assistance Center. Now they will be used in the centers for refugees from Ukraine run by the Warsaw Family Assistance Center. As a scientific partner of the initiative, our university will support the center's staff with knowledge and experience that will allow them to take full advantage of the devices' therapeutic capabilities. This is because MUW - as one of the first centers in Poland - has already been providing psychological assistance to Ukrainian refugees using PARO robots since 2022.

The O. O. Bogomolets National Medical University has received efficient backup power supplies. They will enable health care units affiliated with the Kiev university to operate regardless of power outages. This is another step in MUW activities in support of Ukraine.

Heavily calcified atherosclerotic plaques in patients with chronic or acute coronary syndromes pose a challenge to modern interventional cardiology. The Hemodynamics Laboratory of the Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiology UCC MUW has joined the ranks of the few centers in Poland performing complex coronary artery procedures using orbital atherectomy.

Prof. Hector Hugo Maldonado Felix is the Coordinator of Agreements of the National University of San Marcos in Lima (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos). This is one of the oldest and most important universities in Latin America, with which we signed in September 2022 a continuation of the Bilateral Agreement concluded in 2018. On Wednesday, June 28, Prof. Hector Maldonado visited the premises of our university at the invitation of Prof. Paweł Włodarski, Vice Rector for International Relations, Development and Promotion.

In 2020 our university and the Social Insurance Institution have entered into an agreement to jointly carry out active development activities - educational and scientific, and to implement the "Academy of Social Insurance" project. On Friday, June 30, an annex extending the agreement was signed by the Social Insurance Institution President Prof. Gertruda Uścińska and Rector Prof. Zbigniew Gaciong.

Saad Saleh Alsaleh met with professor Zbigniew Gaciong, the Rector, to talk about strengthening the cooperation in the field of training, both in the Faculty of Medicine and at other faculties of the Medical University of Warsaw (WUM).

The 1st edition of the Health Care Forum, entitled “Quality, availability, ethics - the European dimension of health”, took place during 19-20 June. Among the attendees, there were representatives of the government and international institutions, doctors, directors of hospitals and medical centers. The discussions focused on the key issues related to health care in Poland. Representatives of our University were among the guest speakers: professor Zbigniew Gaciong, the Rector; Artur Białoszewski, head of SGH-WUM EMBA in health care program, as well as students of the Faculty of Medicine: Agata Andrzejczyk and Janusz Świeczkowski-Feiz.

Prof. Ryszard Gellert, director of the Postgraduate Medical Education Center (CMKP) announced the launch of a Young Medical Staff Education Council. Janusz Świeczkowski-Feiz, student of the 6th year of the WUM Faculty of Medicine, became the chair of the Council. This student of ours also won a reputable “Young Leader” award. All that was happening at the 1st Health Care Forum.

Szpital Kliniczny im. ks. Anny Mazowieckiej [Karowa University Hospital] awarded by MY PACJENCI (WE THE PATIENTS) Foundation as Leader of Patient-Centric Philosophy. The hospital was rewarded for launching the campaign entitled “#Oko na malucha” [An eye on the little one], enabling parents to maintain contact with their children, patients of Neonatology wards.

Advanced, following the latest trends in health care - such are the newly launched post-graduate studies for masters in Pharmacy. Teaching future providers of pharmaceutical care at a pharmacy. Students will expand their knowledge about the most important diseases, learn to quickly find the information they need, improve their skills in assessment of pharmacological treatment and enhance their communication competence.