LECZENIE RAN 2025; 22 (2)

This year’s second “Leczenie Ran” issue is significant to me.

Firstly, at the annual EWMA conference in Bar­celona, attended by over 5,000 people, Dr. Justyna Cwajda-Białasik from Bydgoszcz, after a beautiful presentation entitled Results of a pilot study of diabe­tes-related foot disease (DFD) screening in an AT-risk group, received the Justyna Cwajda-Białasik from Bydgoszcz, after a beautiful presentation entitled Results of a pilot study of diabetes-related foot disease (DFD) screening in an AT-risk group, received the award for the best abstract of the year (Best Abstract of the Year Prize). This work was done in collaboration with Dr Paulina Mościcka, MD, PhD, and under the super­vision of Prof. Maria Szewczyk at the Department of Surgical Nursing of the L. Rydygier Collegium Medicum of the Nicolaus Copernicus University and the Chronic Wound Treatment Clinic of University Hospital No. 1 in Bydgoszcz. This is a huge distinc­tion and the crowning achievement of many years of scientific work by the entire team of Prof. Ma­ria Szewczyk, who began her excellent adventure with chronic wound treatment in 2000, creating an outstanding centre and educating the next gener­ation of people interested in this field of medicine. The recently approved two habilitation degrees for Dr Paulina Mościcka and Dr Justyna Cwajda-Białasik are not only a confirmation of the proper process of education and scientific research but also an ex­cellent example for other rapidly developing wound treatment centres in Poland of how to combine and create all these elements for the benefit of patients with chronic wounds.

Congratulations!

Secondly, this issue is my last as Editor-in-Chief. I have decided to end my collaboration with the journal “Leczenie Ran” | “Polish Journal of Wound Management”.

I would like to use this interesting second issue of the year to thank you all for your kind cooperation over the past nearly 18 years. The position of ed­itor-in-chief has been a massive challenge for me over the years, involving putting together individual issues, inviting contributors, writing interesting arti­cles, and maintaining good relations with publishers, which we had to change four times during my tenure.

I would like to sincerely thank all members of the Scientific Council of “Leczenie Ran” | “Polish Journal of Wound Management” for their support and assis­tance in obtaining articles and editing our journal. Special thanks are due to Dr. Katarzyna Cierzniakowska, MD, Editorial Secretary, who demonstrat­ed great patience and perseverance in proofreading the submitted articles for publication, contacting the authors, and motivating the reviewers to meet their deadlines.

I would also like to thank the publishing house Moc Media and personal editor Sylwia Chrabałowska, whose idea of internationalizing the journal won my approval and proved a proverbial “bull’s eye”. We have attracted authors from other countries and made English a permanent feature of “Leczenie Ran” | “Polish Journal of Wound Management”, dramatically increasing the journal’s international recognition.

As I conclude my interesting and demanding term of office, I wish the next Editor-in-Chief of Leczenie Ran every success in continuing the changes that have been initiated, including efforts to introduce the journal to new indexing databases.

I would like to thank all readers for their interest in our journal and hope it will always provide the best and most up-to-date knowledge on wound treat­ment in our country and worldwide.

It has been a great pleasure to serve you.