MILITARY PHYSICIAN Military Physician Program Council Members Quarterly Official Organ of the Section of Military Physicians at the Polish Chairman Medical Society Grzegorz Gielerak – Head of the Military Institute of Medicine Oficjalny Organ Sekcji Lekarzy Wojskowych Polskiego Towarzystwa Members Lekarskiego Massimo Barozzi (Italy) Scientific Journal of the Military Institute of Medicine Elspeth Cameron Ritchie (USA) Pismo Naukowe Wojskowego Instytutu Medycznego Nihad El-Ghoul (Palestine) Published since 3 January 1920 Claudia E. Frey (Germany) Number of points assigned by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Anna Hauska-Jung (Poland) Education (MNiSW) – 6 Stanisław Ilnicki (Poland) Wiesław W. Jędrzejczak (Poland) Dariusz Jurkiewicz (Poland) Editorial Board Paweł Kaliński (USA) Frederick C. Lough (USA) Editor-in-Chief Marc Morillon (Belgium) Jerzy Kruszewski Arnon Nagler (Israel) Stanisław Niemczyk (Poland) Deputy Editors-in-Chief Krzysztof Paśnik (Poland) Andrzej Chciałowski, Krzysztof Korzeniewski, Piotr Rapiejko Francis J. Ring (UK) Tomasz Rozmysłowicz (USA) Secretary Marek Rudnicki (USA) Ewa Jędrzejczak Daniel Schneditz (Austria) Editorial Office Eugeny Tishchenko (Belarus) Military Institute of Medicine Zofia Wańkowicz (Poland) 128 Szaserów St. 04-141 Warsaw 44 Brenda Wiederhold (USA) telephone/fax: +48 261 817 380 Piotr Zaborowski (Poland) e-mail:
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