Jerzy W. Leszek, MD
(Poland), Board of Directors

Jerzy Leszek is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Wroclaw University, Poland, and Vice-Head of the Wroclaw Medical University Psychiatric Clinic since 1999. He obtained his Doctor of Medicine in 1980. From 1980 to 1986 he trained in adult psychiatry and psychopharmacology at Charles University Clinic of Psychiatry in Prague, at St. Elizabeth Hospital, the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) in Washington D.C. and at Dr Heines’ Clinic, Bremen, Germany. He has worked at Wroclaw Medical University Psychiatric Clinic since 1980.

Between 1994 and 1997, he participated in two international programs, BIOMED-1 and PECO-94, sponsored by the European Union. Both studies addressed the pathogenesis of schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease. He is currently the Prinicipal Investigator of a research study supported by the Polish Ministry of Health Research on the mechanism of Colostrinin-R activity in Alzheimer’s disease. In 1997 he was nominated for the prestigious PARKER-DAVIES Prize and in 1999 he received an award from the European Psychogeriatric Association in Dusseldorf, Germany.

Dr. Leszek is founder and President of the Lower Silesian Association of Alzheimer Patients’ Families. He founded the organization in 1991, the first of its kind in Poland. He has published extensively in Polish and other scientific journals, including International Psychogeriatrics. He is an author of two chapters in the European Handbook of Psychiatry and Mental Health. He was scientific editor and co-author of the first Polish academic handbook on Alzheimer’s disease published in Wroclaw, Poland in 1998. 

Dr. Leszek has been a member of IPA since 1992 and was elected to the Board of Directors in 2002. He can be contacted at jleszek@psych.am.wroc.pl.-

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