Jerzy Jarosz

Freitag, 03. November 1950

Jerzy Jarosz (born 3 November 1950) is a Polish anesthesiologist, and palliative medicine specialist. He also specializes in pain management, bioethics and medical cannabis. In 1989, he founded - the second in Poland - oncological hospice. He is also a founder of the first pain management outpatient clinics in Poland. Since then (for over 30 years) he is actively promoting and advocating for the hospice movement and palliative medicine in the Central-Eastern Europe and Caucasus regions. Jarosz is a pioneer expert and promoter of the medical use of cannabis in the cancer pain management and founder of the first Information Point on the Medical Cannabis Treatment in Poland.