Jacek Zdzisław Siewiera (April 27, 1984 in

Wrocław Wrocław (; german: Breslau, or . ; Silesian German: ''Brassel'') is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the River Oder in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Europe, rou ...

) is a

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officer, medical doctor and lawyer. A doctor of philosophy in medical science, an expert in

anaesthesiology Anesthesiology, anaesthesiology, or anaesthesia is the medical specialty concerned with the total perioperative care of patients before, during and after surgery. It encompasses anesthesia, intensive care medicine, critical emergency medicine, ...

and intensive therapy. University of Oxford alumnus. The organizer and first head of the Hyperbaric Medicine Clinic of the Military Medical Institute. The founder of the Rescue Center. Since 2022 he serves as a Head of the National Security Bureau.

Education and career

He completed full-time studies at the faculty of medicine of the Piastów Śląskich Medical University in Wrocław and five-year part-time studies in law at the Faculty of Law and Economics of the

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and doctoral studies at the Forensic Medicine Chair of the Medical University in Wrocław. After defense of doctoral dissertation at the Forensic Medicine Chair of the Piastów Śląskich Medical University in Wrocław he started military service. He is the author of the first textbook in Poland dedicated to limitations of life support technologies and titled ''Futile medial treatment for medical doctors and lawyers''. Then he commenced studies in the area of strategy and innovation at the University of Oxford and graduated with distinction. In 2012 he was awarded with the

Medal for Sacrifice and Courage The Medal for Sacrifice and Courage ( pl, Medal za Ofiarność i Odwagę) is a Polish medal established on February 17, 1960. It is awarded to those who, with disregard for their own life, save people from drowning, aid the victims of natural disa ...

by the President of the Republic of Poland

Bronisław Komorowski Bronisław Maria Komorowski (; born 4 June 1952) is a Polish politician and historian who served as President of Poland from 2010 to 2015. Komorowski served as Minister of Defence from 2000 to 2001. As Marshal of the Sejm, Komorowski exercised ...

upon request of the Voivode of Lower Silesia Region ''for merit in saving human lives'' (for actions undertaken during the

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within the premises of the

Katowice International Fair Katowice International Fair ( pl, Międzynarodowe Targi Katowickie, MTK) was an international trade fair in Katowice and one of the largest in Poland (the largest being the Poznań International Fair). A few dozen events were organized there each ...

in 2006). In 2017 in the Clinical Ward of Hyperbaric Medicine of the Military Medical Institute, which he established, he undertook a rescue hyperbaric treatment of a pilot of a MIG29 fighter jet, which failed during flight. This was the world's first publicized case of successful recovery from high-altitude decompression sickness owing to hyperbaric treatment and cardiopulmonary bypass. The treatment procedure entailed a risk to the medical doctor's life and health, for which in 2018 he was awarded with the Cross of Merit for Bravery by the President of the Republic of Poland,

Andrzej Duda Andrzej Sebastian Duda (; born 16 May 1972) is a Polish lawyer and politician who has served as president of Poland since 6 August 2015. Before becoming president, Andrzej Duda was a member of Polish Lower House (Sejm) from 2011 to 2014 and the ...

, and also with the „Portrait of Polish Medicine”. As a result of actions aimed to combat the SARS CoV2 epidemic in the period of peak incidence of COVID-19 infections in the United States, he was awarded with the Illinois Military Medal of Merit.

Missions

* In 2020, during the

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pandemic he was the Commander of the Polish Military and Civilian Mission to Lombardy from March 30 to April 9, 2020, in the period of peak incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infections in Northern Italy * In April 2020 he was the Commander of the Polish Military Medical Mission to the United States. deployed after a telephone conversation between President of Poland and of the United States.

References

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