Jacek Spławiński (born 8 August 1937) is a Polish

pharmacologist Pharmacology is a branch of medicine, biology and pharmaceutical sciences concerned with drug or medication action, where a drug may be defined as any artificial, natural, or endogenous (from within the body) molecule which exerts a biochemica ...

specializing in

clinical pharmacology Clinical pharmacology has been defined as "that discipline that teaches, does research, frames policy, gives information and advice about the actions and proper uses of medicines in humans and implements that knowledge in clinical practice". Clinic ...

, professor of medical sciences,

ECFMG According to the US Department of Education, the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates is "the authorized credential evaluation and guidance agency for non-U.S. physicians and graduates of non-U.S. medical schools who seek to practice ...

certified doctor and author and co-author of more than 100 scientific papers.

Life and work

In 1963 he graduated from medical studies at the Medical Academy in Kraków. After completing doctoral studies at the

Institute of Pharmacology of the Polish Academy of Sciences Institute of Pharmacology of the Polish Academy of Sciences ( pl, Instytut Farmakologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk) is a scientific Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, based in Kraków. Established in 1954 as the Department of Pharmacology of ...

he received Ph.D. He completed a two-year scientific internship at the Department of Clinical Pharmacology of

Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy or VU) is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of shipping and rail magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1-million ...

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. He worked at Vanderbilt University simultaneously with his friend

Jerzy Vetulani Jerzy Adam Gracjan Vetulani (; 21 January 1936 – 6 April 2017) was a Polish neuroscientist, pharmacologist and biochemist, professor of natural sciences, member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Academy of Learning, one of the mo ...

. For several years he managed the research of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska Fund. He passed the

Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates According to the US Department of Education, the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates is "the authorized credential evaluation and guidance agency for non-U.S. physicians and graduates of non-U.S. medical schools who seek to practice ...

and is a specialist in the field of clinical pharmacology. He published as an author or co-author over one hundred scientific papers. He worked at the Narodowy Instytut Leków (National Institute of Medicine) in Poland. From 1 January 2009, he retired. He received a number of awards for his work, including Award of the Polish Pharmacological Society (1980) and the Award of the Scientific Council of the Minister of Health of Poland (1979, 1985, 1994). He represented Poland in several

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working groups on medicines. He is (or was) a member of the Polish Pharmacological Society, the Polish Pharmacoeconomic Association, the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR), and the Drug Information Association. He was married to the poet Elżbieta Zechenter-Spławińska. In 2015, Poligraf Publishing House released his memoirs ''Gwizdać na Stalina! Zakopane 1949–1953: wspomnienia gimnazjalisty'' (''Whistling on Stalin! Zakopane 1949–1953: memories of a middle school student'').

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