Marian Zembala

Marian Zembala
Marian Zembala
	31 – Katowice II
Personal details
Born	11 February 1950; Cardiac surgeon and Transplantologist
Known for	Performing the first single-lung transplant in Poland
Awards	Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2004); Order of the Smile (2005); Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice (2008); Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2011); 3rd Class of the Order of Merit of Ukraine (2012)

Marian Zembala (11 February 1950

cardiac surgeon, full professor of medicine who served as Health Minister in 2015 and as a deputy to the Sejm (2015–2019). He was a member of Zbigniew Religa

's team who performed the first successful heart transplant in Poland in 1985.

In October, he improved the availability of specialist treatment for seniors - geriatric and cardiological teleconsilium: implementation of a nationwide pilot based on the Zabrze teleconsultation model, in cooperation with the

Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy

and the Medical Center of Postgraduate Education.

Zembala introduced a health policy program in the field of geriatrics named "National Program for Prevention and Treatment of Age-related Conditions in Poland for 2016-2020" to develop, under the supervision of the Minister of Health, the Minister of Labor and Social Welfare, the leaders of Polish geriatrics and the assumptions of coordinated geriatric care. He also introduced a pilot project of Day Care Homes and new forms of care for the elderly. A competition for the pilot creation and operation of 40 Day Care Homes for dependent people, in particular for elderly people, which was announced on 23 July 2015, and the application deadline until 30 October 2015. The project value was PLN 40 million

In the

Law and Justice party. In accordance with the constitution, Kopacz resigned along with Zembala and all other members of her cabinet at the first sitting of the newly elected Sejm. Zembala remained in office until his successor Konstanty Radziwiłł

was sworn in on 16 November 2015.

References

^ "Prof.dr hab.n.med. Marian Zembala". drugieserce.jaw.pl. Archived from the original on 23 October 2013. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
^ Pietraszewski, Marcin. "Nie żyje profesor Marian Zembala. "Nie wykluczamy, że mamy do czynienia z samobójstwem"". katowice.wyborcza.pl. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
^ "PKW | Wybory do Sejmu RP i Senatu RP". Archived from the original on 13 June 2016. Retrieved 8 May 2016.

[1] "Prof.dr hab.n.med. Marian Zembala". drugieserce.jaw.pl. Archived from the original on 23 October 2013. Retrieved 19 March 2022.

[2] Pietraszewski, Marcin. "Nie żyje profesor Marian Zembala. "Nie wykluczamy, że mamy do czynienia z samobójstwem"". katowice.wyborcza.pl. Retrieved 19 March 2022.

[3] "PKW | Wybory do Sejmu RP i Senatu RP". Archived from the original on 13 June 2016. Retrieved 8 May 2016.

Ministers of Health of the Republic of Poland
Ministers of Health and Social Welfare	Andrzej Kosiniak-Kamysz Władysław Sidorowicz Marian Miśkiewicz Andrzej Wojtyła Ryszard Jacek Żochowski Wojciech Maksymowicz Franciszka Cegielska
Ministers of Health	Franciszka Cegielska Grzegorz Opala Mariusz Łapiński Marek Balicki Leszek Sikorski Wojciech Rudnicki Marian Czakański Marek Balicki Zbigniew Religa Ewa Kopacz Bartosz Arłukowicz Marian Zembala Konstanty Radziwiłł Łukasz Szumowski Adam Niedzielski Katarzyna Sójka Ewa Krajewska Izabela Leszczyna

v t e The Cabinet of Ewa Kopacz
Original members	Bartosz Arłukowicz Andrzej Biernat Jacek Cichocki Cezary Grabarczyk Maciej Grabowski Andrzej Halicki Włodzimierz Karpiński Joanna Kluzik-Rostkowska Lena Kolarska-Bobińska Ewa Kopacz Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz Małgorzata Omilanowska Janusz Piechociński Teresa Piotrowska Marek Sawicki Grzegorz Schetyna Tomasz Siemoniak Mateusz Szczurek Maria Wasiak
Joined later	Borys Budka Andrzej Czerwiński Adam Korol Marian Zembala

Authority control databases
International	ISNI VIAF
National	United States Poland
Academics	ORCID

Marian Zembala

Political career

Minister for Health: 2015

References