Professor of the Warsaw School of Economics. He works in the Department of Decision Support and Analysis of the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH). He is also the co-owner of a consulting company called HealthQuest (www.healthquest.pl). He has a background in economics (MSc, PhD and habilitation in the Warsaw School of Economics) and mathematics (bachelor at the University of Warsaw). He spent a year in the Centre for Operations Research and Econometrics in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (Marie Curie scholarship) and one semester in Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa, USA (Fulbright Senior Award). His scientific interests include researching health preferences, especially in the context of imprecise description of these preferences. He has published numerous scientific articles in the field of decision support, health economy and general decision theory (among others, in the Annals of Operations Research, Central European Journal of Operations Research, Health Economics, Pharmacoeconomics, Quality of Life Research, Value in Health (cf.: http://michaljakubczyk.pl)). He is a member of scientific associations such as The EuroQol Group and the International Academy of Health Preference Research (IAHPR). He led the winning team in the global health preference and choice modelling competition organised by IAHPR (http://iahpr.org/eq-dce-competition/). He gives lectures on decision analysis at bachelor, master’s and MBA levels, as well as training cuorses for various institutions (e.g. the National Health Fund, the Ministry of Health, the Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Tariffs, private companies). He co-directs the MBA programme offered jointly by the Warsaw School of Economics and the Medical University of Warsaw. top
Edition speaker: 2022
The founder and the president of the management board of the Modern Healthcare Institute, the editor-in-chief of the mZdrowie.pl portal and the “Obserwacje MHI” (MHI Observations) magazine. In the past, among others, he was as the spokesperson of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Finance, the editor-in-chief of “Puls Medycyny” and “Puls Farmacji”, the manager responsible for communication and PR in companies such as Polpharma, Coca-Cola, Henkel and Lafarge. Krzysztof Jakubiak graduated from the University of Warsaw (the Faculty of Polish Studies), the University of Wisconsin (management), Higher School of Management – Thames Valley University (now: University of West London). top
Edition speaker: 2024
Professor Jerzy Jaroszewicz, specialist in infectious diseases and hepatologist, is Head of the Clinical Department of Infectious Diseases and Hepatology of the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice. Moreover, he acts as President of the Polish Association for the Study of the Liver, is a member of the Polish Groups of Experts for HBV, HCV, COVID-19 and for Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) and is a member of the HBV expert panel of the European Association for the Study of Liver (EASL). He specialises in diagnosis and treatment of HAV, HBV, HCV, HEV, autoimmune, steatotic, genetic and other liver diseases (research on infectious diseases). He is also involved in the treatment of tick-borne diseases (including Lyme borreliosis), other viral, bacterial, and fungal infectious diseases and immunoprophylaxis. He graduated from the Medical University of Bialystok in 1999. He acquired his scientific skills during numerous internships abroad (Aachen, Germany and Florence, Italy) in the field of pathophysiology and liver cell culture techniques, among others. In the years 2008-2010, he carried out research under grants (DAAD, Erasmus, Deutsche Leberstiftung) at the Clinic of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology of the Hannover Medical School. He is the author and co-author of more than 150 publications in journals on the Philadelphia List, numerous chapters in textbooks and conference reports on primarily clinical and molecular aspects of viral hepatitis. top
Edition speaker: 2018
In 1997, she became the first patient in Poland to receive a bone marrow transplant from an unrelated donor. That surgery, groundbreaking in the history of Polish medicine, was performed in the Department of Haematology of the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, by Prof. Jerzy Hołowiecki with the team.
It was the experience of fighting for her own life that inspired her to create a foundation which, since 1997, has been actively helping patients suffering from cancer, leukaemia, MS, hepatitis C, multiple myeloma, brain cancer; it develops a bone marrow donor bank, organises educational and information initiatives in the media, as well as pro-patient changes in the health care system. For many years, the organisation was also the largest Bone Marrow Donor Bank in Poland in terms of the number of registered people. It is thanks to the personal devotion on the part of Urszula Jaworska and the entire foundation team that the idea of bone marrow donation became so popular in Poland. The foundation's register currently has over 11,000 bone marrow donors.
Despite numerous duties, she tries to combine work in the foundation with supporting other organisations, including OFOP and other patient associations. For several years, she has been active under the office of the Commissioner for Patients' Rights as a Member of the Social Council of the Commissioner for Patients' Rights. She was ranked 38th in Puls Medycyny's 2017 list of the 100 most influential people of the Polish health care system. Since February 2018, she has participated in the work of the Health Committee of the Polish Chamber of Commerce.
She is a graduate of the National Ballet School in Warsaw and a student of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw in the Department of Ballet Pedagogy. She is a dancer and a soloist, as well as the manager of many significant ballet ensembles, including: Syrena, Sabat, Mazowsze. In 1994, she was diagnosed with leukaemia. As the first patient in Poland to ever receive a bone marrow transplant from an unrelated donor, she became the Founder of the Urszula Jaworska Foundation. She actively participates in organising activities aimed at broadly understood assistance offered to patients with leukaemia, other cancers and chronic diseases. She attaches great importance to raising social awareness regarding cancer. top
Edition speaker: 2025
Passionate and well recognized expert in the field of health economics and market access with the over 20 year experience. Currently holding the Associate Director Market Access position at MSD. Manager, coach and mentor. Innovator, strategic thinker and member of the negotiation teams. Author of the certain publications in the per reviewed journals. Member of the national and international scientific associations. top
Director of the Health Department of the Pomeranian Voivodeship Marshal's Office. Graduate of the Medical Faculty of the Medical Academy in Gdańsk (nowadays known as the Medical University of Gdańsk). Specialist in Public Health. He has a PhD in medical sciences and holds the position of assistant professor in the Department of Public Health and Social Medicine. Author of several dozen articles on public health concerning, in particular, the field of management and organisation of health care, economic aspects and epidemiology. Councilor of the City of Gdańsk (1994-1998) and chairman of the City Commission for Solving Alcohol Problems (1997-2001). Deputy Healthcare Director at the University Clinical Centre in Gdańsk (2010-2014), Deputy Director and then Director of the Pomeranian Branch of the National Health Fund (2008-2009 and then 2013/14); President of the National Health Fund between June 2014 and March 2016. top
Edition speaker: 2018
Dr. Bradley Johnston (PhD) is the director and co-founder of NutriRECS (www.nutrirecs.com), and is an Associate Professor with the Department of Community Health & Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. He also holds adjunct appointments with The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) Research Institute, where he founded the SickKids evidence synthesis unit (SORT - Systematic Overviews through advancing Research Technology), and the Department of Health Research Methods (formally Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics), McMaster University, where he is a tutor in the annual Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Workshop. Dr. Johnston is an Associate Editor with BMC Medical Research Methods.
Dr. Johnston’s academic interests include the methodology of patient-reported outcome measures, randomized trials, systematic reviews and public health practice guidelines. His work involves the application of these methods to a wide range of areas, with a particular interest in the education, principles and practice of evidence-based nutrition. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, including first and senior authored articles in JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine, CMAJ and Pediatrics. top
Edition speaker: 2021
Professor at the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH), Head of the Project Management Department at SGH. Graduate of Management and Marketing at the Warsaw School of Economics. Director and lecturer of Postgraduate Project Management Studies, other postgraduate and MBA studies. Director and participant of research, consulting (e.g. Building an organisation’s project maturity), implementation (e.g. implementation of methodologies, project management offices, business process improvement) and training projects. He cooperates with both the public sector (e.g. the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Infrastructure, the Supreme Audit Office, other units of the public finance sector) and the private sector (mainly companies from the energy, transport, R&D and construction sectors). He specialises in project management maturity, project risk management and projects in multicultural environments. Author of several dozen publications in the field of management, including the first monograph in Poland devoted to project management maturity of organisations. Certified project manager in project (PRINCE2® and AgilePM®), portfolio (MoP®) and risk (M_o_R®) management. Member of PMI, IPMA and co-founder of the Association of Project Managers – Graduates of Postgraduate Studies in Project Management at the Warsaw School of Economics. top
Doctor of medical science, Director of National Institute of Public Health – National Institute of Hygiene. Since 2003 he is the scientist at Public Health Department at Warsaw Medical University. He co-operated with Medicover and LUX MED Groups, where he was responsible for planning and implementing health-benefited activities at work place. In LUX MED Group he leaded Health Education Office. He represented the Polish employers at the Advisory Committee of European Commission in relation to Health and Safety at work place. top
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