Prof. Malgorzata Krajnik, MD, PhD, specialist in internal disease and in palliative medicine,  Head of Palliative Care Department at Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland. President of Polish Association for Spiritual Care in Medicine. Her areas of interest have included cancer pain, breathlessness and cough, opioidergic systems in the human respiratory tract and in heart, itch in cancer, pneumodosimetric system for nebulisation of opioids, trajectory of dying, integrated end-of-life care for people with COPD and heart failure, fatigue in cancer, opiophobia, ethical issues at the end of life, communication with the patient and family, psychooncology, spirituality in medicine.