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Lecturers of the Faculty of Medicine
Prof. dr hab. n. med. Witold Szyfter
Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the Medical Academy of Poznań. Scientist, laryngologist, otolaryngologist and audiologist. Academic teacher. Long-time head of the Otolaryngology and Laryngological Oncology Clinic of the Karol Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences in Poznań. Former national consultant in the field of otolaryngology.
Co-organizer and medical coordinator of the world’s largest Universal Hearing Screening Program for Newborns of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity. In cooperation with the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center and the best European laryngology centers, for over a dozen years he has been organizing a project of “live” surgical operations, which can be followed on the Internet by doctors and medical students from over 60 countries. In 2014, for outstanding merits in professional and social work, the President of the Republic of Poland Bronisław Komorowski awarded Witold Szyfter the Golden Cross of Merit.
In 2015, the professor received the title of Leader of Organic Work from the Hipolit Cegielski Society in Poznań.
Dr n. med. Leszek Niepolski
Nephrologist and researcher, his scientific interests include low molecular weight proteins and their role in patients with end-stage renal disease.
He worked at the Department and Institute of Physiology of the Poznań University of Medical Sciences. In 2019, he won the Amicus Studentium student poll for the most liked and respected UMP teacher. In 2020 – also at UMP – he won the Lecturer of the Year competition.
Since 2023, he has been a supervisor of a debuting, first-year medical student at PAM, where he teaches physiology. He has four children. He runs and swims. He appreciates Julio Cortázar and listens to Eminem. For years, he has been consistently delighted by the film “Out of Africa” with Meryl Streep and Robert Redford.
Dr n. med. Sylwia Świdzińska
In the medical field at PAM she lectures in public health. Graduate of Karol Marcinkowski Medical University in Poznań. Pediatrician, rheumatologist. For many years she has been involved in the treatment of children, including those with systemic connective tissue diseases.
Manager and public health specialist. For 25 years she was the deputy director of the provincial pediatric hospital on Krysiewicza Street in Poznań. In her free time she swims, rides a bike, and recently she spends her holidays mostly in Poland.
Dr n. med. Beata Klincewicz
A graduate and long-standing academic at the Karol Marcinkowski Medical University in Poznań, where she served as coordinator of paediatrics courses within the English Division. A specialist in gastroenterology, paediatric gastroenterology and paediatrics.
At PAM, she coordinates paediatrics classes and students’ summer placements.
Dr hab. inż. Iwona Gołębiewska
Dr Iwona Gołębiewska, biochemist, researcher. At PAM she teaches biochemistry with elements of chemistry.
She graduated from the Poznań University of Technology and Aalborg University in Denmark at the same time. She defended her doctorate in biotechnology at the University of South Dakota. She continued her postdoctoral internship at the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. There, she worked, among other things, on creating biorefineries. Together with scientists from all over the world, she designed a green city in the middle of the desert in the United Arab Emirates – the famous Masdar City, today inhabited by a population of 5 thousand people. Before returning to Poland, she worked as a professor at the Department of Applied Microbiology at the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium, conducting international research projects.
Dr Grzegorz Bręczewski
At the Faculty of Medicine of the Medical Academy, he teaches elements of professionalism, therapeutic contact with the patient, and medical psychology. He also provides psychological support to students of the Faculty of Medicine.
He graduated in psychology from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (specialization: clinical psychology and health psychology) and in physical rehabilitation from the Eugeniusz Piasecki Academy of Physical Education in Poznań. He is the author of publications and monographs, mainly in the area of rehabilitation and health psychology.
Dr n. med. Maja Kucharska-Janińska
A long-standing academic at the Karol Marcinkowski Medical University in Poznań, affiliated with the Department and Clinic of Maxillofacial Surgery. She passed her specialisation examination and successfully defended her doctoral thesis on the assessment of voice and speech in patients who have undergone reconstructive surgery of the mandible and lower lip, both with distinction.
She is the author and co-author of scientific publications in Polish and international journals, and a co-author of the textbook *Maxillofacial Traumatology*, edited by Prof. Leszek Lewandowski. She combines many years of clinical experience with research and teaching activities.
In her clinical practice, she specialises in maxillofacial and dental surgery, as well as implantology, including bone augmentation, maxillary sinus floor elevation and dental reconstruction using implants. Her areas of expertise also include the diagnosis and treatment of maxillary sinus and temporomandibular joint disorders, as well as tumours and facial and cranial injuries.
At PAM, she will be teaching an introductory course in dentistry, introducing students to the fundamentals of their future profession. Medicine remains her greatest passion, which she pursues through her daily work with patients and by sharing her knowledge and experience with students.