PROFESSOR KAZIMIERZ ORZECHOWSKI — INITIATOR OF THE FIRST UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF NEUROLOGY IN WARSAW

Professor Kazimierz Orzechowski, PhD, MD, was the first Head of the Chair and Department of Nervous Diseases of the University of Warsaw (currently named Chair and Department of Neurology of the Medical University of Warsaw). He is also credited as the founder of the so-called second Warsaw school of neurology which emerged alongside the neurology school created by Professor Edward Flatau in the Jewish Hospital in Czyste.