Prof. Tomasz Trojanowski from the Medical University of Lublin will be the first Pole to head the neurosurgery section of the European Union of Medical Specialists/Union Européenne des Médecins Spécialistes (UEMS), a medical organization based in Brussels, Belgium, that trains specialists in medicine and runs European specialization examinations for doctors. Trojanowski's term starts next year and will last four years.

Trojanowski is the head of the Children's Neurosurgery Faculty and Clinic of the Medical University of Lublin, and he also heads the Polish Academy of Sciences' (PAN) Neurological Sciences Committee. He is a member of the PAN Committee for Medical Physics, Radiobiology and X-Ray Imaging.

In his new role as head of the UEMS's neurosurgery section, Trojanowski said he would work to "make sure that doctors from across the EU are equally well trained upon completing their specialization." This will benefit patients, who will be treated by high-class specialists in all member countries, Trojanowski added.

Trojanowski says his goal is to bring about a situation in which the qualifications of Polish medical university graduates will be recognized across Europe on a par with those of their Western European counterparts. As a result, Trojanowski says, Polish doctors applying for a job in another EU country will finally be treated in the same way as their foreign colleagues.