Andrzej Rys
2019 ASSETS core faculty member
The Andrija Stampar Summer Educational & Tutoring School is proud to announce that Dr. Andrzej RyÅ› will be one of the core faculty members of the 2019 edition.
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Dr. Andrzej RyÅ› is a medical doctor specialised in radiology and public health, graduated from Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.
He founded in 1991 and ran as Director until 1997 the School of Public Health at the Jagiellonian University. Thereafter, from 1997 -1999, heserved as Director of the Krakow’s City Health Department. Between 1999 -2002, he continued his career as Deputy Minister of Health in Poland where he was member of the Polish EU accession negotiators team for the harmonisation of the Polish Health Care Law withthe EU’s Acquis Communautaire.
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After becoming Senior Consultant of “Health and Management Ltd” for the World Bank (WHO) and EAR in Serbia (2002), he founded (2003) the “Center for Innovation, Technology Transfer and University Development” (CITTRU) at the Jagiellonian University, where he was Director until 2006.
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In 2006, he became Director for Public Health and Risk Assessment at the Directorate-General for Health and Consumers (DG SANCO), in the European Commission. From 2011-2014, he assumed the position of Director for Health Systems and Products in DG SANCO. Since 2014, Dr. Andrzej Rys is the Director responsible for Health Systems, Medical Products and Innovation in DG SANTE.