Michal Sutkowski new president of the College of Family Physicians

Dr. Michal Sutkowski is a specialist in internal medicine and family medicine. He worked in the Departments of Neonatology, Pediatrics, Internal Medicine at the Western Mazovia Health Center and WUM Clinic until 2012. Within the framework of Individual Specialized Medical Practice at the place of call "Family" since 2010, he cooperated with Academic Medical Center ACM, CM Damian, CM ENEL - MED, CM MML. Since 1989 he has been working as a doctor in Primary Health Care, currently as director of NZOZ "Medycyna Rodzinna" s.c. based in Osuchow. He has been a member of the College of Family Doctors in Poland since 2001; he served as Vice-Chairman of the Main Audit Committee of the KLRwP from 2001 to 2017. President of the Warsaw Field Branch of the College of Family Doctors in Poland (KLRwP) since 2009, Spokesperson of the KLRwP since 2015, Member of the Presidium of the KLRwP Main Board since 2017. He is a co-founder and expert of the Medical Rationale of State (MRS) since 2016, Vice Dean for Development - Faculty of Medicine Lazarski University - Warsaw since 2019.

KLRwP was established to develop a strategy for the implementation of the institution of the family doctor into the Polish health care system. Among the 34 founders of the College were, among others, parliamentarians with the late Senator Zofia Kuratowska and MP Marek Balicki, academics with Prof. Maciej Latalski, Prof. Tadeusz Tolloczko, Prof. Tadeusz Chruściel and Associate Professor Rafał Niżankowski, or, finally, health care managers and ordinary doctors who work with patients on a daily basis. The model for the then nascent association was the Royal College of General Practitioners in the United Kingdom and similar organizations of family physicians in Europe, Canada and the United States.
Today, KLRwP has a membership of 4,500 family physicians. 

KLRwP actively participates in the process of transforming the health care system. A special area of interest
is primary health care and its tasks and place in the health care system.

Key objectives of the KLRwP:

• Supporting family doctors in their practice
• Supporting the professional and scientific development of family doctors
• Shaping a primary health care model based on family medicine

Source: X/president.co.uk/KLRwP