On 28 October 2021, an official gala of the contest “Personalities and Successes of the Year 2021” was held in the theatre Scena Relax in Warsaw. The editor-in-chief of the magazine “Personalities and Successes” Mariusz Pujszo awards in 5 categories. Prof. Henryk Skarżyński was distinguished in the category “Personality of the Decade.” Distinction in this category was also awarded to: Andrzej Malinowski, Ph.D. in Economic Sciences, Prof. Mirosław Ząbek, Andrzej Grabowski, Dr. Adam Struzik, Ewa Minge, Prof. Michał Kleiber, Apoloniusz Tajner, Alicja Węgorzewska, Ph.D, Karol Strasburger, Jarosław Chrobociński, Andrzej Supron, Izabela Trojanowska, Marcin Muszyński, Paweł Trochimiuk, Sobiesław Zasada, Urszula Dudziak, Rafał Michalski, Michał Milowicz and Władysław Grochowski.

As we can read in the laudation, the distinction was awarded to Prof. H. Skarżyński for performing  Poland’s and Central and Eastern Europe’s first cochlear implantation operations on the deaf and the world’s first cochlear implantations on persons with partial deafness, among other things.

The competition “Personalities and Successes” is an event during which the organizers recognize outstanding personalities and companies for their extraordinary work deserving the name “Success of the Year”.

The “Personalities of the Decade” award was presented to Prof. Henryk Skarżyński at an extraordinary time.  2021 is a celebration year for prof.  Henryk Skarżyński and his team.  It is the year of the 25th anniversary of the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing and the 30th anniversary of the commencement of the deafness treatment program.  It is also worth reminding that five years ago, Prof. Henryk Skarżyński won the title Personality of the Year 2016.

The evening was graced by performances by: Śląsk Ensemble, Alicja Węgorzewska and Michał Milowicz.