title: [History of otolaryngology department of Military Medical Academy].
abstract: Establishing the Chair of Laryngology with the Clinic of the Military Medical Academy was connected with inauguration of the Military Medical Academy in Lódź on the 1st July, 1958 (the Resolution of the Cabinet Council No. 477 / 57 dated 7th November, 1957 and the Order of the Minister of National Defence No. 03 / Org. dated 19th May, 1958) on the basis of the Military Centre of Medical Training, the Central Clinical Hospital in Lódź and the Central Hospital of the Ministry of National Defence in Warsaw. In fact the Chair of Laryngology with the Clinic of the Military Medical Academy was established in September 1958 with Major Antoni Kwilman, M.D. - senior lecturer - appointed to be a temporarily performing duties head of the institution until April 1959. Considering its successive Heads the forty-five years history of the Otolaryngology Clinic at the Military Medical Academy can be divided into four periods. Period I. In April 1959 Assistant Professor Józef Borsuk, MD, PhD (Professor later) was appointed to be the first Head of the Chair of Laryngology and the Clinic. Within scientific scope the Chair cooperated with the Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine in Lódź, the Military Sanatorium Unit in Ciechocinek and foreign Centres from the then German Democratic Republic and Czechoslovakia. Period II. Since the 1st October 1974 the Chair of Laryngology with the Clinic and since the 1st November that year the Otolaryngological Clinic at the Institute of Sense Organs the Military Medical Academy was run by Assistant Professor Bo2ydar Latkowski, MD, PhD - another Head appointed by the Minister of National Defence - who managed it until the 30th November 1987 and was the only civil Head of the Clinic. Period III. On the 1st December 1987 the third Head got in charge of the Otolaryngological Clinic at the Military Medical Academy - the then senior lecturer at the Clinic - Piotr Zalewski MD, PhD (the Military Medical Academy graduate). Period IV. By open competition on the 1st day of October 2003 Prof. Jurek Olszewski, MD,PhD was appointed to the Head of the Otolaryngology and Phonoaudiological Rehabilitation Clinic and simultaneously has been occupying the position of the Dean at the Faculty of Physiotherapy the Medical University of Lódź.
authors.affiliation: Klinika Otolaryngologii i Onkologii Laryngologicznej II Katedry Otolaryngologii UM w Lodzi.
authors.forename: Jurek
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Olszewski
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