Łukasz Müldner-Nieckowski, MD, PhD, a specialist in psychiatry, sexologist, has been appointed national consultant in psychotherapy. Psychotherapist and supervisor of the Scientific Section of Psychotherapy of the Polish Psychiatric Association. Supervisor of the Polish Society of Sexology. Assistant in the Laboratory of Sexology at the Department of Psychiatry of the Jagiellonian University Medical College. He is the director of the Course of Psychotherapy of Sexual Disorders. She works at the Family Therapy Clinic of the University Hospital in Cracow. In private practice she deals with analytical psychotherapy, psychodynamic psychotherapy, and therapy of sexual disorders. President of the Polish Society for Jungian Psychoanalysis.

National consultants are appointed by the Minister of Health from among specialists in particular fields:

Medicine,
pharmacy,
Other fields that are applicable to health care.

The minister may ask for candidates:

scientific societies of national scope that bring together specialists in a particular field,
The relevant health professional governments.

National consultants:

initiate national epidemiological studies and evaluate the methods and results of these studies;
forecast health needs in their field;
advise on how to implement tasks that stem from the National Health Program and other health programs;
Give their opinion on requests to refer a patient for treatment or diagnostic tests outside Poland;
give opinions and advice on tasks carried out by the Center for Medical Examinations, the Center for Postgraduate Training of Nurses and Midwives and the Center for Medical Postgraduate Training.

Source: MZ/UJ