Honorary doctorate for prof. Jerzy Dybicki

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Honorary doctorate for prof. Jerzy Dybicki

7.05.2015

prof. Jerzy Dybicki
prof. Jerzy Dybicki

Prof. Jerzy Dybicki (general surgery, thoracic surgery and vascular surgery) will receive an honorary doctorate at the official and open to the public meeting of the MUG Senate on May 19th 2015 at Noon at the prof. Narkiewicz Auditorium Primum. During the ceremony, prof. Dybicki will deliver a lecture “In honor of my dear patients”.

Prof. Jerzy Dybicki was born in 1923 in Baranowicze. As soldier of the Armia Krajowa (Home Army) during the Second World War (pseudonym Jaksa), he fought in the Konin region as well as in the Warsaw Uprising. He earned his medical degree in 1946 from the University of Maria Skłodowska-Curie in Lublin. Later he earned PhD as well as doctor habilis degrees at the Medical University of Gdańsk. Prof. Dybicki completed specialty training in general surgery, thoracic surgery and vascular surgery. In 1983 he was nominated for full professorship. In the years 1966-1967 he worked at the Vanderbilt University in Nashville on a scholarship. For many years he was the head of surgical departments (2nd Department of Surgery 1968-1970, 1st Clinic of General Surgery 1970-1992, 1st Department of Surgery 1992-1994). In 1980, prof. Dybicki initiated the renal transplant program at the Medical University of Gdańsk. He authored or co-authored 232 research papers (161 original papers), published in Polish, American, Swiss, French and Russian medical journals. He trained numerous surgeons, promoted 15 doctoral dissertations and supervised 5 doctor habilis candidates. Three of his doctor habilis candidates later became heads of surgical deparments at our University and two worked as full-time researchers and teachers. Member of the Association of Polish Surgeons and the Polish Transplantation Society. In the recent years he authored the 3-volume history of the MUG and the people who contributed to its development. The book has been a bestseller in the local medical community and prof. Dybicki is now part of the Polish Doctors-Writers Union.