Inauguration of the Academic Year 2024/2025 at University of Kalisz
Honorary Doctorate Award Ceremony – Professor Witold A. Zatoński
Reviewers:
Professor Marek Krawczyk, Warsaw
Professor Richard Peto, Oxford
Lecture of Professor Witold A. Zatoński
8th October, Tuesday
Aula of Professor Tadeusz Pisarski, Collegium Medicum, Kaszubska 13, Kalisz
Time: 9.00 AM – 5.30 PM
9.00 – 9.30 Registration
9.30 – 10.00 Opening session
Professor Andrzej Wojtyła, University of Kalisz, Poland
Professor Witold A. Zatoński, Institute – European Observatory of Health Inequalities, University of Kalisz, Poland
Małgorzata Kidawa – Błońska, Deputy Speaker of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland (TBC)
10.00 – 12.00Session 1: Public health challenges – panel discussion
Moderators: Professor Krzysztof Chlebus, Department and Clinic of Cardiology, Medical University of Gdańsk, Poland, Dr Kinga Janik-Koncewicz, Institute – European Observatory of Health Inequalities, University of Kalisz, Poland
Panel contributions:
1. Introduction: Professor Witold A. Zatoński, Institute – European Observatory of Health Inequalities, University of Kalisz, Poland (10’)
2. Professor Krzysztof Chlebus, Department and Clinic of Cardiology, Medical University of Gdańsk, Poland (10’)
3. Dr Jarosław Neneman, Deputy Minister of Finance, Poland (10’)
4. Professor Leif Aaro, Department of Health Promotion, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway (10’)
5. Professor Andrzej Wojtyła, University of Kalisz, Poland (10’)
6. Dr Anna Harton, Department of Dietetics, Institute of Human Nutrition Sciences, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland (10’)
7. Professor Katarzyna Zatońska, Department of Population Health, Medical University of Wrocław, Poland (10’)
8. Professor Piotr Jankowski, Department of Internal Medicine and Geriatric Cardiology, Center of Postgraduate Medical Education, Warsaw, Poland (10’)
9. Professor Tomasz Zdrojewski, Department of Hypertension and Diabetology, Medical University of Gdańsk, Poland (10’)
Panel discussion (30′)
12.00 – 12.30 Coffee break
12.30 – 14.30 Session 2: Health, risk factors, cancer
Moderators: Dr Alicja Basiak-Rasała, Department of Population Health, Medical University of Wrocław, Poland, Professor Piotr Jankowski, Department of Internal Medicine and Geriatric Cardiology, Center of Postgraduate Medical Education, Warsaw, Poland
1. Halving premature mortality – Professor Richard Peto, University of Oxford, UK (20’)
2. Time trends in cancer mortality in Poland – Professor Witold A. Zatoński, Institute – European Observatory of Health Inequalities, University of Kalisz, Poland (20’)
3. History of exposure to cigarette smoking in Poland – Dr Kinga Janik-Koncewicz, Institute – European Observatory of Health Inequalities, University of Kalisz, Poland (10’)
4. A half century of Polish – US cooperation in health and tobacco control – Dr Mark Parascandola, Center for Global Health, National Cancer Institute, USA (15’)
5. A half century of Polish – US cooperation in health and tobacco control – Professor Tom Glynn, Faculty of Medicine, Stanford University, USA (15’)
6. Eradication of cervical cancer in England – Clare Gilham, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, Professor Julian Peto, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK (15’)
7. New directions in development of oncological therapy – lung cancer – Kamil Kuć, Oncology Department with Day Chemotherapy Subunit, Provincial Hospital St. Padre Pio in Przemyśl, Poland (15’)
Discussion (10′)
14.30 – 15.30 LUNCH
15.30 – 17.30Session 3: Epidemiology of alcohol-related diseases in Poland at the beginning of 2000s
Moderators: Dr Aleksandra Herbeć, University of Kalisz, Poland, Dr Krzysztof Przewoźniak, University of Kalisz, Poland
1. Exposure of the Polish population to alcohol – Dr Kinga Janik-Koncewicz, Institute – European Observatory of Health Inequalities, University of Kalisz, Poland (10’)
2. Alcohol-related health harm – alcoholic liver cirrhosis – Professor Witold A. Zatoński, Institute European Observatory of Health Inequalities, University of Kalisz, Poland (10’)
3. Increasing alcohol exposure and CVD – Professor Piotr Jankowski, Department of Internal Medicine and Geriatric Cardiology, Center of Postgraduate Medical Education, Warsaw, Poland (15’)
4. Aspects of economic affordability of alcohol – Dr Jarosław Neneman, Deputy Minister of Finance, Poland (10’)
5. From on online row to legislative changes – Krzysztof Nowiński, Jan Śpiewak (10’)
6. Milestones in liver transplantation. How we obtained alcoholic liver cirrhosis as an indication for liver transplantation – Professor Marek Krawczyk, Clinical Department of General, Transplantation and Liver Surgery, Poland (15’)
7. Alcoholic liver cirrhosis – current indications for liver transplantation – Professor Joanna Raszeja-Wyszomirska, Clinical Department of Hepatology, Transplantology and Internal Diseases, Poland (15’)
8. Current possibilities and perspectives for liver transplantation in alcoholic cirrhosis in the face of progress made in the 21st century – Professor Michał Grąt, Clinical Department of General, Transplantation and Liver Surgery, Poland (15’)
Discussion (20′)
9th October, Wednesday
Aula of Professor Tadeusz Pisarski, Collegium Medicum, Kaszubska 13, Kalisz
Time: 9.00 AM – 5.30 PM
9.00 – 11.00 Session 4: Public health challenges towards rising use of novel nicotine products in Poland (Nicotine Delivery Devices)
Moderators: Dr Anna Harton, Department of Dietetics, Institute of Human Nutrition Sciences, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland, Dr Mark Parascandola, Center for Global Health, National Cancer Institute, USA
1. Introduction– Professor Witold A. Zatoński, Institute – European Observatory of Health Inequalities, University of Kalisz, Poland (5’)
2. Can extremely effective marketing of e-cigarettes lead to the inhibition of tobacco ENDGAME? – Professor Alan Brandt, Harvard University, USA (20’)
3. The US perspective on e-cigarettes and harm reduction – Mitch Zeller, Center for Tobacco Products, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, USA (20’)
4. A study on the attitudes of children and adolescents towards innovative nicotine products and cigarettes – Professor Joanna Dzionek-Kozłowska, Department of the History of Economics, University of Lodz, Poland (10’)
5. Trends in use and regulations towards novel nicotine products in the US – Dr Mark Parascandola, Center for Global Health, National Cancer Institute, USA (10’)
6. Tobacco ENDGAME – UK perspective – Professor Martin McKee, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK (10’)
7. Tobacco industry “transformation” narratives: a barrier to the tobacco endgame – Dr Allen Gallagher, Hala Alaouie, Tobacco Control Research Group (TCRG), Department for Health, University of Bath, UK (10’)
Discussion (35′)
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 – 13.30 Session 5: Excess mortality due to coronavirus – the biggest health catastrophe in Poland in the 21st century
Moderators: Professor Łukasz Gruszczyński, Department of International Law and European Union, Law Kozminski University, Poland, Professor Katarzyna Zatońska, Department of Population Health, Medical University of Wrocław, Poland
1. Introduction – Professor Witold A. Zatoński, Institute – European Observatory of Health Inequalities, University of Kalisz, Poland (5’)
2. Excess mortality from COVID-19: a global perspective – Professor Prabhat Jha, University in Toronto, Canada (20’)
3. Summary of excess mortality across European Union 2020-2023 – Professor Carlo La Vecchia, Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, Italy, Dr Gianfranco Alicandro (15’)
4. Course of the coronavirus pandemic in Poland – Dr Alicja Basiak-Rasała, Department of Population Health, MedicalUniversity of Wrocław, Poland (15’)
5. COVID-19 from the perspective of an infectious diseases expert – Dr Paweł Grzesiowski, Chief Sanitary Inspectorate, Poland (15’)
6. Regulating pandemics – experience of Poland – Professor Łukasz Gruszczyński, Department of International Law and European Union, Law Kozminski University, Poland (15’)
7. Inequalities in health behaviours and attitudes during the Covid-19 pandemic and their implications for public health – Dr Aleksandra Herbeć, University of Kalisz, Poland (15’)
Discussion (20′)
13.30 – 14.30 LUNCH
14.30 – 16.30 Session 6 – Challenges of medical education
Chair person: Professor Jacek Piątek, University of Kalisz, Poland
1. ProPlastinated anatomical preparations – representative of Gunther von Hagen (15’)
2. The human body as an eternal source of horror and passion paving the birth of modern anatomy – Professor Michał Szpinda, Department of Normal Anatomy, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland (15’)
3. Preparing nurses and midwives to implement new competences – Professor Mariola Głowacka, Mazovian University in Płock, Poland and Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland (15’)
4. Treating irritable bowel syndrome with a balanced multistrain synbiotic: Results from the ViIBS Tria – Professor Henning Sommermeyer, University of Kalisz, Poland (15’)
5. Nanoplastic particles as a potential factor modulating the functioning of human body cells – Professor Ewa Pruszyńska-Oszmałek, Department of Animal Physiology, Biochemistry and Biostructure, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Poland (15’)
6. New peptides as a therapeutic target in obesity and type II diabetes – Professor Paweł Kołodziejski, Department of Animal Physiology, Biochemistry and Biostructure, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Poland (15’)
7. Metabolic fatty liver disease – Dr Szymon Suwała, Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland, Professor Hanna Krauss, Institute for Preventive Research, University of Kalisz, Poland (15’)
8. Intestinal microbiota and dysbiosis in neurodegenerative diseases – Professor Hanna Krauss, Institute for Preventive Research, University of Kalisz, Poland (15’)
14.30 – 16.30 Session 7: Closing remarks
Rapporteur: Professor Leif Aaro
Vice-Rapporteur: Professor Łukasz Gruszczyński, Dr Kinga Janik-Koncewicz, Dr Mark Parascandola, Professor Jacek Piątek,
Professor Katarzyna Zatońska
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