Alumni & Friends


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Alumni Spotlight

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Małgorzata Patro, M.D.

Decision to study in Poland My decision to come to Poznan for medical school was something I and my family gave much thought to. I was living in Chicago with my family; we moved there when my twin sister and I were ten, and by high school we both knew what we wanted to do. I want...
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Patrycja Turek, M.D.

I grew up in New York state after emigrating from Poland with my family as a little girl. Yet throughout my young adulthood, something always propelled me towards Poland. After graduating from Cornell University, and knowing I wanted to go to medical school in Europe, I applied t...
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Jacqueline Wilk, M.D

1. What made you choose a Polish university? Leonard Wilk (then my boyfriend, now my husband) is Polish and we went there together.
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Sadhana Dharmapuri, M.D.

I graduated from PUMS in 2002. After my graduation I did a residency in Pediatrics at University of Illinois in Chicago and then a fellowship in Adolescent Medicine at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC. I am an assistant professor in adolescent medicine at the ...
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Alicja Dewera-Moczerniuk, M.D.

Pediatric Healthcare Associates, Connecticut When I decided to pursue my medical degree (right about my 23rd birthday), I soon realized that all the application deadlines for medical schools in the US for that year had long passed. But interestingly enough one of my professors ma...
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Prof. Maria Siemionow

A world famous Polish surgeon running Plastic Surgery Research at Clevland Clinic in Ohio, she graduated from Poznan Univerity of Medical Sciences in 1974, receiving her MD. She furthered her education and in 1985 received her Ph.D. in microsurgery and then in 1992 her „habilitat...
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Jennifer Baker-Porazinski, M.D.

When I was applying to medical schools, my future father in-law brought me an application for PUMS. He explained to me that this was a prestigious medical school in Poland that was starting a program for English-speaking students. I applied, with the hopes of learning some Polish...
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