Aleksander Skotnicki (hematologist)

On June 28, 2018 in the Collegium Maius hall of the Jagiellonian University, the jubilee of Aleksander Skotnicki's seventieth birthday took place. The event was attended by the Mayor of Kraków, Jacek Majchrowski, the Vice-Rector of the Jagiellonian University for Medical College, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the Jagiellonian University, acting Director of the University Hospital, president of the Kraków Medical Society and a German consul.

In 1995, Skotnicki obtained the title of professor of medical sciences. In the years 1993–2018 he was Head of the Hematology Clinic of the Jagiellonian University Medical College, and participated in creating Kraków's first extensive center for the treatment of tumors of the hematopoietic and lymphoid tissues and the hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

He is married to Małgorzata Tarczyńska, with whom he has sons Stanisław (born 1982) and Jan (born 1986).

Between 1962–1966, Aleksander Skotnicki attended the Jan III Sobieski High School in Kraków. In 1972 he graduated from the Medical Academy in Kraków. He was a student of Julian Aleksandrowicz.

Aleksander Bartłomiej Skotnicki (born 24 August 1948) is a Polish hematologist and transplantologist, specialist in internal medicine, professor of medical sciences, Head of the Hematology Clinic of the Jagiellonian University Medical College between 1993–2018, academic lecturer, social activist, member of the Polish Academy of Learning.

He was born on August 24, 1948 as the son of Roman Skotnicki and Alina née Sokołowska – a psychologist, an activist of the Polish Society of Mental Hygiene and a worker at the Medical Academy in Kraków. His maternal grandmother was Janina Anna Sokołowska, a high school teacher, social activist and participant of the Polish underground resistance during World War II.