Organizers

Organizer

Polish Institute for Evidence Based Medicine

Co-Organizers

Towarzystwo Lekarskie Krakowskie (Kraków Medical Society)
Institute of National Remembrance
Jagiellonian University Medical College

Partners

Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum
University of Colorado Center for Bioethics and Humanities
Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics
Department of Bioethics and the Holocaust, The International Chair in Bioethics
St. Maximilian Center in Harmęże
Medycyna Praktyczna (Medicine in Practice)

Official Airport

Kraków Airport

Organizing Committee

Piotr Gajewski, MD, PhD, FACP (Chair)
Karol Polejowski, PhD
Kamil Szkaradek, MA (Coordinator)
Marta Pasiut, MA

Scientific Committee

Rebecca Brendell, MD, JD
Tessa Chelouche, MD
Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH, MSPH, FACP
Aleksander B. Skotnicki, MD, PhD

About Polish Institute for Evidence Based Medicine

The Polish Institute for Evidence Based Medicine (PIEBM) is a foundation established in 2003. Its goal is to promote the concept and methods of evidence-based medicine among medical professionals in order to rationalize and enhance the quality of healthcare in Poland.

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About Institute of National Remembrance

The mission of the Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation (Instytut Pamięci Narodowej – Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu – the IPN) is to research and popularize the modern history of Poland and to investigate crimes committed from 8 November 1917, throughout the Second World War and the communist period, to 31 July 1990. The Institute is headed by the President appointed by the Polish Parliament.

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About Kraków Medical Society

Kraków Medical Society (Towarzystwo Lekarskie Krakowskie) dates back to 1866, when it was founded thanks to the efforts of Doctor Aleksander Kremer. It answered the contemporary needs stemming from the rapid advancements in medicine as well as challenges faced by medical practitioners.

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About Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum

KL Auschwitz was the largest of the German Nazi concentration camps and extermination centers. Over 1.1 million men, women and children lost their lives here. The post-camp relics are protected by the Museum created in 1947. The Memorial today is i.a. the Archive and Collections as well as research, conservation and publishing center.
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About Jagiellonian University

The Jagiellonian University is the oldest higher education institution in Poland and one of the oldest in Europe. It was founded on 12 May 1364 by the Polish king Casimir the Great. The Jubilee year 2014 marked the 650th anniversary of this remarkable event.

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Department of Bioethics and the Holocaust, International Chair in Bioethics (Haifa)

On June 24th 2001 an agreement was signed by the Director-General of UNESCO and the Rector of the Haifa University, Israel, concerning the establishment of a UNESCO Chair in Bioethics at the International Center of Health, Law and Ethics, University of Haifa.

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About the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics

The Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics was launched to ensure that values and ethics are always part of medical training, laboratory and clinical research, and professional education. The Center’s mission is to bring together the rich intellectual resources of the medical school faculty with health professionals and scientists from our affiliated teaching hospitals, departments across Harvard, and colleagues from other institutions worldwide to ensure that scientific progress, medical therapeutics and health care practices proceed hand-in-hand with reflection about the profound moral questions raised by advances in the life sciences.

About the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado

The Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, engages today’s and tomorrow’s health professionals and the community in substantive, interdisciplinary dialogue about the ethical issues surrounding contemporary healthcare.

  • Educating the next generation of health care professionals who can balance the humanistic, scientific and technical dimensions of their profession
  • Encouraging responsible development and use of emerging technologies
  • Involving diverse and previously unrepresented voices in community dialogue
  • Bridging the precision of science and the complexity of patients' live?s

About Medycyna Praktyczna

Medycyna Praktyczna (Medicine in Practice) is a medical publishing house founded in 1991 in Kraków, Poland, by a group of physicians from the Jagiellonian University Medical College. Our objective is to provide a broad range of medical professionals as well as patients with current and verified medical knowledge. Boasting the reputation of a trusted and reliable source of information, Medycyna Praktyczna is the most widely recognized brand by the Polish medical community.

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