Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University

Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University (Universitatis Medicinalis Leopoliensis), (Львiвський Національний Медичний Унiверситет iм. Данила Галицького), formerly known as Lvov State Medical Institute, earlier - Faculty of Medicine of the John Casimir University, and before that Faculty of Medicine of the Francis I University, is one of the oldest and biggest medical universities in Ukraine.

History
The history of Lviv medical university goes back to 1661, when on the 20th of January Jesuit Collegium in Lviv by the privilege of Polish King John II Casimir acquired the status of Academy. It consisted of four departments and was awarded the title of the University''. However, until the break-up of the University in 1773 the full-blown medical department was not established.

On the 16th of November 1784 according to the privilege of the Austrian emperor Joseph II, signed on 21 October 1784, Lviv University consisting of four faculties – theology, philosophy, law and medicine – was revived. Since then Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University has started counting its age.

Taking into account state and international recognition of University activity, great contribution to the development of national education and science, Danylo Halytskyi Lviv State Medical University was conferred the status of National Medical University on the 21st of August 2003 by the President’s decree #872/2003,

Faculties

 * Medical faculty No.1


 * Medical faculty No.2


 * Faculty of dentistry


 * Faculty of pharmacy


 * Faculty of distance education


 * Faculty of postgraduate education

Notable students

 * Tadeusz Bętkowski, Polish surgeon


 * Stanisław Lem, Polish science fiction, philosophical and satirical writer


 * Ludwik Fleck,Polish - Israeli medical doctor, biologist and philosopher

Notable professors

 * Antoni Cieszyński, Polish physician, dentist and surgeon


 * Władysław Dobrzaniecki, Polish physician and surgeon


 * Ludwik Fleck,Polish - Israeli medical doctor, biologist and philosopher


 * Belsazar de la Motte Hacquet, French physician


 * Henryk Hilarowicz, Polish physician


 * Stanisław Ruff, Polish surgeon


 * Ludwik Rydygier, Polish surgeon
 * Jakub Karol Parnas,Polish biochemist, co-auothor of Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas pathway
 * Władysław Szymonowicz, Polish histologist and embryologist


 * Rudolf Weigl, Polish biologist, inventor of the first effective vaccine for epidemic typhus


 * Jan Zaorski, Polish surgeon