The World Heart Day will be celebrated worldwide on 29 September 2018. The event is organised annually by the World Heart Federation to raise public awareness about cardiovascular disease – the major cause of death in the world today.
On 8 September 2018, Professor Arkadiusz Jawień, head of the Department of Vascular Surgery and Angiology and of the Centre for Medical Education in English, unveiled his autograph embedded in the pavement of Długa Street in Bydgoszcz.