On November 14, 2018, the President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda, handed over the nomination deeds to several dozen academic teachers as well as science and art workers. Among them was prof. dr hab. med. Andrzej Grzybowski, head of the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Warmia and Mazury, president of the Ophthalmology Development Support Foundation “Ophthalmology 21”.
During the Wednesday ceremony, President Andrzej Duda congratulated the professors and their relatives (in the photo, Prof. Andrzej Grzybowski with his son Henryk). The president also asked the professors to educate the next generations of Polish scientists. And he encouraged them not to consider becoming a titular professor as the culmination of their academic career. “In my opinion, the crowning glory of my career is the Nobel Prize,” said the president. This is what we wish to professor Andrzej Grzybowski, who is an expert frequently visiting our website.
Andrzej Grzybowski is the head of the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Warmia and Mazury. He worked as an assistant professor at the Department of the History of Medical Sciences at the Medical University of Poznań, and lectured at the Faculty of Physics at AMU. He is a laureate of prestigious national and international scientific awards, and is the only Pole to receive the Achievement Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology. He was already decorated by the President of the Republic of Poland with the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
He is a member of many scientific societies, including the European Society for the Examination of the Eyesight (EVER), the European Society for Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ESCRS), the European Academy of Ophthalmology, the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO), and a board member of the European Retinological Society (Euretina). He is also the author of over 350 scientific articles in peer-reviewed international scientific journals, co-author (with Piero Barboni) of the book entitled OCT in Central Nervous System Diseases. The Eye as a Window to the Brain ”. He is also the founder of the Poznań Foundation for the Development of Ophthalmology “Ophthalmology 21” (www.okulistyka21.p).