SUT’s farewell to Professor Marian Zembala

"Only humble cooperation of engineers and doctors can be a source of success in the form of new technologies improving the quality of treatment in medicine" - said Professor Marian Zembala. The Professor, who was a great friend of the Silesian University of Technology, died on 19 March.

Professor Marian Zembala was an outstanding cardiac surgeon, long-term Director of the Silesian Centre for Heart Diseases in Zabrze, minister of health and a great friend of the Silesian University of Technology, especially of the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering.

Professor Zembala always emphasized that the future of modern medicine is cooperation between doctors and engineers. He was an ardent advocate of employing biomedical engineers in health care units.

As the Director of the Silesian Centre for Heart Diseases, Professor Marian Zembala organised internships for students of the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering in that renowned institution. He was a regular participant of conferences "Silesian Biomedical Engineering" and "Innovations in Biomedical Engineering - IiBE" organised by the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering of the Silesian University of Technology.

Professor Marian Zembala was born in 1950 in Krzepice, he was a cardiac surgeon and transplantologist, for many years the director of the Silesian Centre for Heart Diseases in Zabrze. He dealt with heart and lung transplantology. In 1997, he was the first in Poland to perform a single-lung transplantation and in 2001 he was also the first in Poland to perform a heart-lung transplantation.

We would like to express our deepest sympathy to the family of the deceased.