A new honorary doctorate from the MUG

28.06.2016

Prof. Barbara Krupa-Wojciechowska Ph.D. received an honorary doctorate from the MUG. The ceremony took place on June, 28th 2016 at the Narkiewicz Auditorium Primum.

Professor Barbara Krupa-Wojciechowska was born in 1930 in Warsaw, where during the Second World War finished primary school and two high school classes. In the middle of the Warsaw Uprising was deported to Germany. In 1949 obtained a matriculation certificate and began studies at the Faculty of Medicine at the Medical Academy in Gdańsk (now the Medical University of Gdańsk). After graduating in 1954 she took a job in the Second Department of Internal Medicine, now the Department of Hypertension and Diabetology.

Professor entire professional life spent in one University and one clinic. For three decades, she served as Head of the Department, for 11 years director of the Institute of Internal Medicine and 7 years the rector of the University.

Professor Barbara Krupa-Wojciechowska has authored or co-authored more than 400 scientific publications. Many of them published in recognized international journals. She is the author of numerous publications and articles on the social and political changes, which actively participated.