Dr. Andrzej Wojtczak
ProfessorSchool of Public Health and Social Medicine, Warsaw
POLAND
Dr. Wojtczak, Professor of Medicine and Public Health, graduated from Poznan Medical School in Poland. He is an internist and kidney disease specialist by training, part of which he received at the University of Pennsylvania as a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow and as a visiting scientist. For eight years he served as Director in the Regional Office of World Health Organization in Copenhagen, in charge of Health Policy and Systems, Research and Human Resources. He also coordinated cooperation of WHO European Office with the Association of Medical Education in Europe, Association of Medical Deans in Europe and Association of the Schools of Public Health in Europe. In addition, he served as the President of the Association of Medical Education in Europe, and he has also held the position of Deputy Minister of Health in Poland.
Before assuming the post of Director of Institute for International Medical Education in New York in 1999 he established and operated the WHO Research Center for Health Development in Kobe, Japan, and served as the Dean of the School of Public Health and Social Medicine in Warsaw. He is the author of about 300 publications from medicine, medical edcation and public health, and the editor of a 3-volume textbook on Internal Medicine.
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