List of the invited Speakers at the IntMedPOL25 Conference “International medical graduates on the Polish labour market in the context of healthcare workforce deficit in Poland, in Europe and globally”

The Conference will be held at the Medical University of Gdańsk on Monday, April 7th, 2025, from 10:00 to 17:00.

Registration of on-site Participants at the Conference venue from 9:00 to 10:00.

Contact: dr Jacek Kaczmarek; Email: iaro@gumed.edu.pl Tel.: +48601656250

	Dr Heidi L. Bludau Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA	Senior Lecturer and Assistant Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society at Vanderbilt University. She earned her PhD in Anthropology at Indiana University in 2012. From 2012 to 2022, she taught as a Lecturer in Applied Anthropology at Monmouth University. Dr. Bludau’s research program centers on the professional identity of healthcare workers, primarily nurses. The project that served as the basis of her dissertation was an examination of global healthcare migration through the recruitment and migration of Czech nurses; Saudi Arabia was their primary destination site. She used a critical and applied approach to medical anthropology in order to examine the Czech and Saudi national healthcare systems and policies in relation to individual motivations for migration. A key element is the position of healthcare labor recruiters as a node in the migration chain. A large part of her research consisted of an organizational analysis of a Czech recruitment firm in which she was embedded for almost a year. She has published on this topic in Anthropology of Work Review and Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review and more broadly on the topic of healthcare worker migration in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology.
	Dr Artur Brocławski Medizinisches Institut fűr Transkulturelle Kompetenz, Bielefeld, Niemcy	Dr. Artur Brocławski graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Gdansk (then the Medical Academy of Gdansk) in 1989; he left for Germany soon after graduation; he is a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy; since 2006, he has been the chief consultant physician at Klinik am Rosengarten. Dr. Broclawski works with a team of 16 physicians, including those from Ukraine, Korea, Egypt, Afghanistan, Serbia, Colombia and Poland; the nursing staff is similarly diverse in nationality; and the patient population is also very diverse, with about 50-60% of the patients being of non-German ancestry. In 2011, together with his wife, Dr. Solmaz Golsabahi-Broclawski, he co-founded the Medizinisches Institut fűr transskulturelle Kompetenz (MItK), a medical and training center of which he has been the Managing Director; within MItK, Dr. Artur Broclawski mainly deals with jurisprudence, while Mrs. Dr. Solmaz Golsabahi-Broclawski conducts lectures, courses for doctors, health care professionals, social institutions, the Ministry of Justice (e.g. for psychologists and other prison staff in Saxony), as well as supervisions; Dr. Artur and Dr. Solmaz have both participated and co-organized a number of congresses on transcultural topics, especially in the work of doctors of “somatic” specialties (surgeons, internists, urologists, gynecologists); in 09/2025 participation in congress in Prague (World Psychiatric Association – transcultural section WPA); organizer (MItK) of congresses since 2007 (establishment of DTPPP – organization uniting psychiatrists from Germany, Austria and Switzerland), congresses in Gdynia (2015, 2017), co-organizer of congress in Nepal
	Prof. dr hab. Katarzyna (Kasia) Czabanowska Chair International Health, Care and Public Health Research Institute Faculty of Health, Medicine, and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Niderlandy, Director WHO CC on Public Health Leadership and Workforce Development	Professor in Public Health Leadership and Workforce Development and the Head of the Chair International Health at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. She is the Director of WHO CC on Public Health Leadership and Workforce Development. She is a Past President of the Association of the Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER), a lead author of the WHO-ASPHER Competency Framework and the Road Map to Professionalizing the Public Health Workforce in the European Region. She is an Honorary Member of the UK Faculty of Public Health. She co-directs Governance and Leadership in European Public Health Master programme, published around 200 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals. Sha is an academic Board Member of the Studio Europa at Maastricht University, visiting professor at the Institute of Public Health Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, adjunct professor at the Richard Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University, US. She serves as a WHO expert in public health leadership, public health education and training, workforce development and planning, and public health systems.
	Dr Katarzyna Dębkowska Head of the Economic Foresight Team, Polish Economic Institute	Doctor of Economics, graduate of mathematics at the University of Warsaw. She has been working with the Polish Economic Institute since 2018. She has many years of experience in directing and implementing foresight research in socio-economic areas. In analyses of research results, she specialises in the use of multivariate statistical methods. She is the author of numerous scientific publications on business models, corporate bankruptcy, economic and technological foresight. She is an adjunct professor at the Department of Enterprise Sciences at the Faculty of Economics and Finance of the University of Białystok and a lecturer at the Executive Master of Business Administration studies at the Institute of Economics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
	Dr Łukasz Jankowski Supreme Medical Council of the 9th term of office	Physician, specialist in nephrology, activist and reformer of the medical self-government, President of the Supreme Medical Council for the ninth term, previously President of the Regional Medical Council in Warsaw (2018-2022). Professionally affiliated with the Department of Transplant Medicine, Nephrology and Internal Medicine in Warsaw. Graduate of postgraduate managerial studies “Management in Healthcare” at the University of Warsaw and the Leadership Academy for Poland, Authority and Organizations program. Lecturer in MBA studies at the Warsaw School of Economics. Organizer of social campaigns (“National Health Crisis” – 2019, “#NIEZAPOMINJ” – 2020, “I am a doctor, I am a human being” – 2021/2022, “Saving a life is not a crime”), drawing attention primarily to systemic deficiencies in health care, most recently mainly to the continued lack of a viable no-fault system in Poland and changes in the law adversely affecting the safety of treatment. The voice of the younger generation of doctors and dentists, an ambassador of modern changes and an enthusiast of innovation in medicine. His motto in the profession and the local government is “We listen. We engage. We act effectively.” With his support, the NIL IN project was established – the Network of Physician Innovators, who want to change medicine for the better with modern solutions. Repeated winner of the plebiscite , “List of 100 most influential people in the health care system in Poland”, ranked according to “Wprost” weekly on the 30th place of the most influential people in Poland.
	Robert Kupis, MD, MPH Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum in Kraków, Center for Innovative Medical Education	Robert Kupis is a medical doctor and holds master degree in public health. He was trained at the University of Rochester in the United States. Since 2020, he has been affiliated with the Center for Innovative Medical Education at the Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum in Kraków, Poland. Since 2019, he has been working at the Polish Accreditation Commission, previously as a student expert, and currently as a secretary of assessment teams. He is a member of the Council for the Education of Young Medical Personnel at the CMKP in Warsaw. He focuses on medical higher education, training of health professionals in geriatrics in European countries and senior citizen policy. He was a speaker at international scientific conferences, author of a number of scientific publications
	Prof. dr hab. Michał Markuszewski Medical University of Gdańsk	Rector. Professor of pharmaceutical sciences, Vice Rector for Science from 2020 to 2024, Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy from 2016 to 2020. In 1995 he graduated from the Faculty of Pharmacy of GUMed, five years later he defended his doctoral thesis. He spent the years 2000 – 2002 on a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship at Himeji Institute of Technology in Japan. He also held shorter research fellowships in Germany (University of Bremen), the Netherlands (Eindhoven University of Technology) and Belgium (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). He received his postdoctoral degree in 2007 and his professorship in 2017.
	Prof. dr hab. Marcin Moniuszko Medical University of Białystok	Rector of the Medical University of Białystok. Physician, specialist in internal diseases and allergology. Head of the Department of Allergology and Internal Medicine. In 2012 he created the Department of Regenerative Medicine and Immunoregulation at the UMB, and since 2023 he has been co-directing the work of the UMB Centre for Regenerative Medicine. After graduation, he completed numerous scientific internships abroad, including the National Cancer Institute, NIH (Bethesda, USA) for 3 years, and was a scholarship holder of the Polityka Weekly Foundation and the Start programme of the Foundation for Polish Science. He has investigated the role of immune system disorders in the pathogenesis of cancer, allergic, autoimmune, metabolic and other diseases, and has co-investigated a number of studies on novel immunological and hormonal factors affecting the mobilisation and proliferation of stem cells, cancer cells and immune cells. He has co-authored numerous scientific papers describing the role of genomic and metabolomic profile changes in the pathogenesis, course and response to treatment of a number of diseases of civilisation. He conducts educational activities on the links between asthma and allergy and viral respiratory infections and between asthma and obesity. He is making efforts to raise awareness among patients of the early diagnosis and appropriate treatment of asthma and allergy and the impact of these diseases on patients’ immune compromise. Professor Moniuszko is also involved in the issue of secure and privacy-preserving use of patient metadata of Polish clinical hospitals, inter alia for the creation and development of Polish methods of artificial intelligence. He is interested in the popularisation of science and medicine, history, baroque and jazz music, landscape photography, especially Podlasie and promoting the history and culture of the region.
	Prof. dr hab. med. Janusz Moryś Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, University Commission for the Quality of Medical Education KRAUM;	Head of the Department of Anatomy of the Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin. His scientific interests are directed to the problems of development, maturation and aging of the central nervous system, including mainly the centers of the limbic system. He is a member of Polish and foreign scientific societies including: Polish Anatomical Society, FAA – International Federation of Anatomical Associations and EFEM – European Federation of Experimental Morphology. He is a member of the editorial committee of Folia Neuropathologica, Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis, Clinical Anatomy, The Claustrum, and since 2000 has been Editor-in-Chief of Folia Morphologica. From 1996 to 2002, he served as Vice-Dean and from 2002 to 2008 as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine MUG, and from 2008 to 2016 as the Rector of the Medical University of Gdansk. Since 2017, he has served as Chairman of the University Commission for the Quality of Medical Education and was an expert of the Polish Accreditation Commission. In 2016-2020 he was a member of Section IV – Medical Sciences of the Central Commission for Degrees and Titles. Member of the Committee on Neurobiology of the Polish Academy of Sciences – 1998-2015, 2020-2028. Since 2022 he has served as President of the Polish Anatomical Society.
	Dr Henryka Mościcka-Dendys Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Poland	Undersecretary of State. Doctor of Legal Sciences. Graduate of law and classical philology at the University of Silesia in Katowice. She earned her doctorate in international law from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw (2007). In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2002. Among other positions, she served as Head of the Coordination Department in the European Union Department of the MFA and as an expert in the office of the Commissioner for Democratic Development of the Council of the Baltic Sea States in Copenhagen (2003). From 2007 to 2011, she worked as First Secretary and then Counselor at the Polish Embassy in Berlin. From 2011 to 2012 she was Deputy Director of the Department of European Policy for Institutional Affairs and Northern Europe. From August 2012 to April 2013, she served as Director of the European Policy Department. From April 2013 to November 2015, Undersecretary of State for Parliamentary Affairs, European Policy and Human Rights, and from 2015 to 2020, Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Denmark. From September 2020 to December 2023, she headed the Foreign Ministry’s Investment Office. From 2011-2016, she served on the Council of the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation. She currently serves on the Council of the Polish Institute of International Affairs and the European Council on Foreign Relations. She speaks German, English and Russian. Since January 2024, she has been responsible at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for consular, legal and treaty issues and cooperation with the Polish community and Poles abroad.
	Dr Dominika Pszczółkowska Migration Research Center, University of Warsaw	Dr. Dominika Pszczółkowska is a political scientist and migration researcher at the Migration Research Center at the University of Warsaw. Her research interests include emigration from Poland of highly skilled people like doctors, the role of employers in migration, political integration and political messages of migrants. She is the author and co-author of books on emigration from Poland: How Migrants Choose Their Destinations i Polacy w Irlandii. Transnarodowe społeczności w dobie migracji poakcesyjnych (both in free access on the publishers’ websites), as well as dozens of other publications, including recent ones: Did Covid-19 make things worse? The pandemic as a push factor stimulating the emigration intentions of junior doctors from Poland: A mixed methods study, Plos ONE, with Bojarczuk S., Duszczyk M., Matuszczyk K., Szyszkowska E.) and Are They Building a ‘Second Ireland’ in Poland? Political Remitting by Polish Migrants and Return Migrants from Ireland,.
	Dr hab. med. Anna Shalimova, university professor MUG Medical University of Gdańsk, Department of Hypertension and Diabetology	Professor at the Clinic of Hypertension and Diabetology, Medical University of Gdańsk, physician at the University Clinical Center in Gdańsk. In 2005, she graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of Kharkiv National Medical University (Ukraine), five years later she defended her doctoral thesis. She obtained her habilitation degree in 2016. She spent the years 2017–2018 on a postdoctoral scholarship at the Clinic of Hypertension and Diabetology at the Medical University of Gdańsk. In 2020, she obtained the title of professor in Ukraine. Until 2022, she was a professor at the Kharkiv National Medical University in Ukraine. Since 2022, she has been working at the Clinic of Hypertension and Diabetology, Medical University of Gdańsk. Since 2023, she has been the principal investigator of the scientific project War Scar The impact of war-induced stress on the development and progression of arterial hypertension and cardiovascular disease in Ukrainian female refugees.
	Dr hab. med. Jacek Sieńko Medical University of Warsaw	Deputy Dean for Student Affairs English Division
	Shraddha Singh, MD Medical University of Gdańsk, 1st Department of Cardiology and Department of Oncological, Transplantational and General Surgery, University Clinical Centre MUG	Dr. Shraddha Singh graduated from the English Division, Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk, Class 2024. She is originally from Lucknow, India. She is a medical researcher and junior specialist (scientific and technical team) at the Medical University of Gdańsk’s 1st Department of Cardiology, where she contributes to cutting-edge research in cardiovascular medicine and AI-driven medical solutions. With a strong foundation in surgical sciences, she also teaches at the Department of Surgical Oncology, Transplant Surgery, and General Surgery. Passionate about innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration, she has chaired multiple international scientific conferences and is an editorial board member at Cardiology Journal. Her research interests lie in cardiac and transplant surgery, AI in healthcare, and improving patient outcomes through technology.
	Prof. dr hab. Andrzej Szeptycki Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Republic of Poland	Undersecretary of State Political scientist, professor of social sciences, university professor at the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warsaw; expert at the Strategies 2050 Institute. His research interests focus on Ukraine’s domestic and foreign policy, Poland’s foreign policy, the situation in the post-Soviet area, as well as postcolonial studies and the politics of memory. He has lectured in France, Ukraine and China, among other countries. Najnowsza publikacja to „Współczesne stosunki polsko-ukraińskie” (Scholar 2023). He is currently the head of the research project “Russia’s Wars: Causes, Determinants, Course and Consequences of Warfare of the Russian Federation in the Post-Cold War Period” funded by the National Science Center. Prof. Andrzej Szeptycki, Ph.D., Prof. UW is responsible for international cooperation at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
	Dr Andrzej Tytuła Supreme Council of Nurses and Midwives	MA in nursing, MA in special education, specialist in anesthesiology and intensive care nursing. Vice President of the Supreme Council of Nurses and Midwives of the 8th term (2023-2027), Chairman of the District Council of Nurses and Midwives in Lublin of the 6th (2011-2015) and 7th (2015-2023) terms. He served as Secretary of the Regional Council of Nurses and Midwives in Lublin for two terms of the 4th and 5th (2003-2011). Academic teacher, assistant professor at the Faculty of Human Sciences at WSEI Lublin Academy. From 2023 to 2024, a member of the Ministerial Team for the development of draft regulations governing the nursing and midwifery professions. Active activist of the professional nursing and midwifery self-government working in many committees and teams regulating the profession.
	Claudia Anna Wiewióra, MD Szpitale Tczewskie SA, Department of General Surgery	Dr. Claudia Wiewióra graduated from the English Division, Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk, Class 2017, she received the Rectors and Deans Award for scientific and academic research at the Department of Pathomorphology and for having one of the highest extracurricular elective hours in the history of the University. For the term 2015-2017 she was nominated as the Chair of Service Committee of Phi Delta Epsilon Gdańsk. In the period 2011-2017 she was active in the University community as a member of the Student Faculty Council and as an editor and translator for scientific and research papers for various departments. She is originally from Pennsylvania, USA. She specializes in general surgery.
	Prof. dr hab. Wojciech Załuska Medical University of Lublin; KRAUM	Physician, academician, professor of medical sciences. Chairman of the Conference of Rectors of Academic Medical Universities since 2024. Rector of the Medical University of Lublin for the terms of 2020-2024 and 2024-2028. Dean of the Faculty of Medicine with English-language Department in 2012-2020, Vice-Dean of the Second Faculty of Medicine with English-language Department of the Medical University of Lublin – 2005-2012. Specialist of the first and second degree in internal diseases. Specialist in nephrology, public health, hypertensiology and clinical transplantology. As of 2019, he is head of the Department of Nephrology at the Medical University of Lublin. He is a member of the American Society of Nephrology, the European Dialysis and Transplantation Association, the Polish Society of Nephrology the Polish Society of Transplantation and the Lublin Scientific Society. He led the creation of joint education so-called dual degree, the implementation of joint education with Wenzhou University in China and Gulf Medical University in the United Arab Emirates. He is chairman and member of the International Faculty Commission of the Medical University of Lublin for Accreditation. He serves as an expert in the field of medical education, and is a member of the faculty team in the field of introducing the basics of medical simulation into the curriculum. The main scientific interests of Prof. Wojciech Załuska focus on glomerulonephritis – immunopathogenesis and modern forms of therapy, while in the clinical field it is the adaptation of new technologies in the group of patients undergoing renal replacement therapy. He is currently involved in the OPUS project entitled. “Molecular implications of gut microbiota disorders in the context of immune function in patients with primary glomerulonephritis – who’s the leading and who’s the supporting actor?” and in the research entitled. “A non-commercial epidemiologic, clinical-control, prospective study to causally analyze immune system functioning in the context of multimorbidity in patients with primary glomerulonephritis and family members of this patient population – implications for optimizing interdisciplinary therapeutic management.”
	Mgr Fatima Zahra Znioi Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw	Fatima holds a BA in English Linguistics and an MA in Political Science and International Relations. She is currently pursuing an MA in Interdisciplinary Studies on Social Change: Mediterranean and Other European Borderlands at the University of Warsaw. She has published an article on geopolitical tensions surrounding the Western Sahara issue and Moroccan sovereignty. She is also engaged in a research project on the migration plans of foreign medical university students at the Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw.

The project “International medical graduates on the Polish labour market” is financed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland.