Cardiologist, Internal Medicine Specialist, Deputy Head of the Department of Cardiology, Head of the Sub-Department of Heart Failure and Transplantation and Echocardiography Laboratory at the Department of Cardiology of the PIM MSW i A, Head of the Research and Clinical Department of Applied Physiology of the M. Mossakowski Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, President of the Heart Failure Association Polish Society of Cardiology, Head of the Clinical Research Support Center at the PIM MSW i A. Member of the European Heart Academy. Areas of interest are heart failure, inflammatory diseases of the myocardium, echocardiography, molecular biology. She has authored or co-authored numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals, abstracts, monographs and chapters in books (IF- 404.592 IH - 19). Prof. Pawlak completed the Postgraduate Course in Heart Failure in Zurich. Prof. Pawlak is a member of the Polish Society of Cardiology, the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), the Europea