Łukasz Jan Szumowski (born 3 June 1972) is a Polish

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who served as

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from 2018 to 2020. He is also a member of the IX Sejm, representing the Płock (Nr. 16) constituency, elected from the lists of

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Biography

Born 3 June 1972 in Warsaw. In 1997 he finished studies at the

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, and later worked at the Institute of Cardiology in Warsaw's Anin

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, where he received a

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in 2002.

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26 January 2010. On 2 June 2016 he received the title of

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. On 24 November 2016 he became an undersecretary of state in the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, directed at the time by

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. He was responsible inter alia for the creation of the Institute of Medical Biotechnology. On 9 January 2018 he was appointed Minister of Health by

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, at the recommendation of

Mateusz Morawiecki Mateusz Jakub Morawiecki (; born 20 June 1968) is a Polish economist, historian and politician who served as the prime minister of Poland between 2017 and 2023. A member of the Law and Justice (PiS) party, he previously served in the Cabinet of ...

. He replaced Konstanty Radziwiłł. In the

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, he won election to the Sejm. Szumowski was Minister of Health during the

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. On 18 August 2020 he resigned from the position. On January 28, 2022, he resigned from his parliamentary mandate, and on February 1, 2022, he ceased to be a member of the

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. From February 1, 2022 to January 2024, he was the director of the . He is the author of many medical publications, and is the editor in chief of "Heartbeat Journal".

Personal life

Married to Anna, he has 4 children. After his studies Łukasz Szumowski with his wife worked for a month in Mother Teresa's

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. He is a

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and member of the

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References

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