Państwo i Społeczeństwo / State and Society

Irena Milaniak, PhD, DSc, Associate Professor

Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University, Poland

Irena Milaniak graduated from the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Jagiellonian University Medical College, where she obtained an MSc in Nursing, and from AGH University of Krakow, where she obtained an MSc in Marketing. She is a specialist in cardiac nursing.

Her doctoral dissertation, Assessment of Selected Determinants of Quality of Life in Patients after Heart Transplantation, was defended at the Faculty of Medicine of the Jagiellonian University Medical College in 2014. She was awarded the postdoctoral degree of doctor habilitatus in the field of medical and health sciences, in the discipline of health sciences, by the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Jagiellonian University Medical College on 29 April 2020. Her scientific achievement was a series of thematically related publications entitled Biopsychosocial Functioning of Heart Transplant Recipients.

Since 1992, she has been employed at the John Paul II Specialist Hospital in Krakow, in the Clinical Department of Cardiac, Vascular and Transplant Surgery, in the area of transplantology and mechanical circulatory support. She currently works in the Department of Transplantology and Mechanical Circulatory Support as a coordinating nurse.

Since 2017, she has worked at Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University. She served as the Dean’s Representative for the Nursing programme from 2017 to 2024, has been Head of the Department of Nursing since 2020, and has served as Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences since 2024.

She is a member of numerous scientific societies and associations, including the International Transplant Nurses Society, the Polish Nurses Association, the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, The European Society for Organ Transplantation, European Transplant Allied Healthcare Professionals, and the Polish Association of Transplant Coordinators, of which she is a founding member.

Her research and professional interests include nursing care, transplant medicine, cardiac surgery and cardiology, and mechanical circulatory support.