Educators from the Medical University of Gdansk, Poland visit the College of Nursing

Janusz Morys, M.D., Ph.D., dean of the faculty of medicine at the Medical University of Gdansk and Aleksandra Gaworska-Krzeminska, dr n. med., head of the department of nursing at the Medical University of Gdansk, recently visited the University of Florida to discuss future educational collaborations with the College of Nursing. During their four-day visit, the faculty toured many areas of campus, notably HSC facilities such as the Iona M. Pettengill Nursing Resource Center and the McKnight Brain Institute, in addition to Shands at UF. The faculty at the Medical University of Gdansk welcomed Dean Kathleen Ann Long and Eminent Scholar Carol Reed Ash to their campus last fall.

During their visit, Gaworska-Krzeminska was inducted as the first international member of the Alpha Theta Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International, a worldwide nursing honor society.