Konstanty Radziwiłł

Konstanty Mikołaj Melchior Maria Radziwiłł[1] (born 9 January 1958) is a Polish politician, physician, and the voivode of the Masovian Voivodeship.[2] He was Poland's Minister of Health from 16 November 2015 to 9 January 2018. He is a former member of the Polish Senate and a past president of the Chamber of Physicians and Dentists.

Konstanty Radziwiłł
Voivode of the Masovian Voivodeship
Incumbent
Assumed office 25 November 2019
Prime Minister	Mateusz Morawiecki
Preceded by	Zdzisław Sipiera
Minister of Health
In office 16 November 2015 – 9 January 2018
Prime Minister	Beata Szydło Mateusz Morawiecki
Preceded by	Marian Zembala
Succeeded by	Łukasz Szumowski
President of the Chamber of Physicians and Dentists
In office 2001–2010
Preceded by	Krzysztof Madej
Succeeded by	Maciej Hamankiewicz
Personal details
Born	9 January 1958 Wrocław, Poland
Alma mater	Medical University of Warsaw

He graduated from the Medical University of Warsaw.[3] He is a member of the aristocratic Radziwiłł family.[1]

He has been married since 1979 to architect Joanna Dąbrowska (born in Warsaw in 1959), and the couple have four daughters and four sons.[1]

Background

Born in Wroclaw on 9 January 1958, he is the eldest child and only son of the 1979 marriage of Albert Hieronym Radziwiłł (1931-2010) with Anna Czartoryska, born 1932.[4] His parents married at Puszczykowo and his sisters were born in nearby Poznań in 1959 and 1961,[4] but from the age of seven he was raised in Warsaw.[1] His father was a business school graduate.[4] He belongs to the Szydłowiecki branch of the historically princely House of Radziwiłł,[1] which owned an estate at Zegrze from the 19th century.[4]

His paternal grandfather, Constantine, fought as a Polish officer in the Warsaw Uprising and was murdered by the Nazis in 1944,[1] while his maternal grandfather, Prince Roman Czartoryski, had won the Polish Medal of Valour in 1920 and became a prisoner of war during the Invasion of Poland.

Radziwiłł joined the NZS (1980-1982), while still in college.[1]

Education

Radziwiłł specialized in family medicine while pursuing his degree at the Medical Academy in Warsaw, undertaking post-graduate studies in the economics of health care at the University of Warsaw and bioethics.[1]

Medical career

Dr. Radziwiłł worked for several years after graduation as a primary care physician in a health center, then in Warsaw's ambulance service. Beginning in 1997 he entered the private sector as chief physician for industrial enterprises. He headed the Family Medicine Clinic as a non-public health care facility, and remains a practicing physician.

From 1997-2001 Radziwiłł served as secretary of the Supreme Medical Council, and from 2001 as its president.[1] He systematically participates in the work of the Standing Committee of the European Doctors of Medicine (CPME), an advisory body to the European Commission, where he has helped craft legislative solutions on health care issues. He became chairman of the CPME's Ethics Committee. He is also became president of the Medical Academy in Warsaw and treasurer of the National Commission.[1]

References

1. "Konstanty Radziwiłł". Ludzie Wprost. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
2. "Konstanty Radziwiłł nowym wojewodą mazowieckim". Do Rzeczy (in Polish). 25 November 2019. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
3. "Konstanty Radziwiłł". Chamber of Physicians and Dentists. Retrieved 5 June 2016.
4. Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürstliche Häuser VII. "Radziwiłł". C.A. Starke Verlag, 1968, pp. 431-433 (German).