Joanna Pawelczyk is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociolinguistics and Discourse Studies and Dean of the Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Her research interests include language and gender studies, communication in professional settings, discourses of helping professions (psychotherapy in particular), discourses of loss. She has published in a range of international journals and edited collections on gender, psychotherapy, identity and interaction. She is the author of Talk as Therapy: Psychotherapy in a Linguistic Perspective (2011).
Elżbieta Paszyńska is head of Department of Integrated Dentistry at the Poznań University of Medical Sciences, specialist in operative dentistry and endodontics, has been involved in dental under- and postgraduate education and oral research since experience in oral health monitoring for World Health Organization. During pandemic dental volunteer for hospitalised patients in the course of Covid-19. Author of two books entitled Ethics and the law in medicine – in research and healthcare (Peter Lang GmbH, Berlin 2019) and Legal and medical challenges of the pandemic (C. H. Beck, Warsaw 2021). Certified alumnus by GCHR organization and UNESCO program entitled Science and human rights (2022). Recently project manager in program Erasmus+2023-2026-CBHE-STRAND for Georgia funded by European Union. Member of International Association of Dental Research, American Academy of Cariology, International D3 Group and HAP Group.
Szczepan Cofta graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the Poznań University of Medical Sciences. A specialist in internal and respiratory medicine, head of the Department of Respiratory Medicine, Allergology and Pulmonary Oncology. As an expert and researcher, he carries out research projects related to the sleep breathing disorders, adult cystic fibrosis and chronic respiratory failure. Member of the Polish Respiratory Society (board member), president of Polish Sleep Research Society, member of the European Respiratory Society. Medical director of two Poznań University of Medical Sciences hospitals. Vice president of Polish Union of University Hospitals. He has also completed scholarships of French government in Lyon and in Germany (Kiel). Between years 2020 and 2023 head of the special state-run hospital organised for intensive care and severe cases of Covid-19 patients. This work was described in book entitled Our temporary hospital.
Agnieszka Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak is Associate Professor in the Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She has done research and lectured internationally on social dialectology, historical sociolinguistics, discourse analysis as well as language and gender issues. Her current research interests focus on life-span sociolinguistics, the discourse of ageing and intergenerational communication. In 2021 she co-designed an MA studies teaching programme on Language and Communication in Healthcare. Improving communication for better health and well-being is her deep concern.
Monika Urbaniak is a professor at the Department of Medical and Pharmaceutical Law of the Poznań University of Medical Sciences and a specialist in medical and constitutional law. She is also a legal adviser. She has authored 200 published articles and five books. Member of Polish Association of health Law, Polish Association of constitutional Law and European Association of Health Law. Vice President of the Supreme Bioethics Committee. Judge of the Disciplinary Court of Second Instance the National Bar of Legal Advisors. She has also served as a member of the Expert Commission on Health at the Ombudsman.
Ewelina Chawłowska is Associate Professor in public health and head of Laboratory of International Health in the Department of Preventive Medicine, Poznań University of Medical Sciences, Poland. Ewelina is the Work Package leader in JACARDI (EU Joint Action on Cardiovascular Diseases and Diabetes) and Polish coordinator of Erasmus+ project (InfPrev4frica – “Capacitating Sub-Saharan African HEIs to Educate Nursing Students for Sustainable and Innovative Infection Prevention and Control practices”). She also works for 2 NGOs: “For Health. Foundation for Population and International Health” and the foundation “Women in Medicine”. Ewelina’s research interests include health literacy, health behaviours, non-communicable disease prevention, oral health, scale development, access to health services and patient education.
Marta Karaźniewicz-Łada is a professor at the Department and Department of Physical Pharmacy and Pharmacokinetics of the Poznań University of Medical Sciences and a specialist in clinical pharmacy and bioanalysis. She has co-authored 90 published articles with a total IF of over 200. Her main scientific interests concern the pharmacokinetics and pharmacogenetics of drugs in the aspect of increasing the effectiveness and safety of pharmacotherapy. She cooperates with many national clinical units in monitoring the treatment of paediatric and adult patients.
Zuzanna Ślebioda is Assistant Professor in the Department of Dental Surgery, Periodontology and Oral Mucosa Diseases, Poznań University of Medical Sciences. Her main research topic is oral pathology and diseases of the oral mucosa. She has published several papers related to oral pathology and oral medicine, she is an academic teacher for Polish and international dental students, and she coordinates ERASMUS programme at Poznań University of Medical Sciences.
Agata Hauser is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Law and International Organisation at the Faculty of Law and Administration at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She specialises in international law, particularly human rights law. She is involved in numerous projects on economic, social and cultural rights and the rights of the child.
Magdalena Zabielska is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociolinguistics and Discourse Studies at the Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She is particularly interested in the issue of the patient’s presence in specialist medical publications from the perspective of the patient-centred approach to medical practice. She has published a number of papers regarding case-reporting genres.
Zuzanna Jechna is a PhD student in the Department of Sociolinguistics and Discourse Studies at the Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Her PhD research project focuses on problems related to pragmatics of communication, relevant to issues of health and well-being. She has presented at a number of international conferences as well as science communication events.
Bartłomiej Kruk is a lecturer in the English Language Teaching Laboratory at the Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He is interested in dementia discourse and family caregiving, with a particular focus on changing identities and familial relationships as a consequence of the disease. His primary research methodologies are conversation analysis and membership categorisation analysis.
