Dr. hab. Rafal Skowronek is the first Pole to become a member of two international scientific societies for practitioners and researchers in cardiovascular pathology – the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology (SCVP) and the Association for European Cardiovascular Pathology (AECVP).
Dr.hab. Rafał Skowronek, DMSc, head of the Department of Forensic Medicine and Forensic Toxicology at the Faculty of Medical Sciences in Katowice, is also a member of the “Autopsy Pathology” working group of the European Society of Pathology.
He is a graduate of the Faculty of Medicine of the Silesian Medical University in Katowice, a forensic medicine specialist, pathomorphologist, research and teaching assistant professor at the Department of Forensic Medicine and Forensic Toxicology of the Faculty of Medical Sciences in Katowice, as well as chairman of the Silesian Branch of the Polish Society of Forensic Medicine and Criminology and deputy chairman of the Silesian Branch of the Polish Society of Toxicology.