Report of the Human Rights Defender on the activities of the National Preventive Mechanism in Poland in 2013 the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights No 17/1996). Between 1996 and 2001, she was involved in monitoring activities for the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights. Since 2009, she has cooperated with the Office of the Human Rights Defender (since April 2012 she has been employed on a ¼ FTE basis). 10. Experts of the National Preventive Mechanism A. Psychiatrists Leszek Asman – a  psychiatrist. Currently, he is employed at the Mental Health Centre in Zabrze as a medical manager, as well as the head of day psychiatric ward and the head of the outpatient clinic complex (mental health clinic, neurotic disorders clinic, home treatment team). For many years he worked as the head of psychiatric wards (Olkusz, Rybnik). For a year he was employed in the control department within the Silesian Branch of the National Health Fund. He has many years’ experience as expert witness in the field of psychiatry. He finished a postgraduate school in the field of health protection management. He runs his private medical practice in Żory. Jolanta Paszko – a psychiatrist. Graduate of the Medical University of Lublin. She gained professional experience in the Psychiatric Hospital in Gniezno, and later in Bródnowski Hospital and Bielański Hospital in Warsaw. Between 1992 and 2008 she was a scientific assistant in the IV Clinic at the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology in Warsaw. Author of research publications in the area of environmental and clinical psychiatry. Currently, she is working on her PhD thesis. She completed a psychodynamic psychotherapy course in Krakow. Kama Katarasińska-Pierzgalska – a  psychiatrist. Graduate of the Medical University of Łódź. She gained professional experience at the Psychiatric Hospital of the Ministry of Interior and Administration in Łódź and in Health Care Centre Łódź-Bałuty. Since 2001 she has been working at the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology in Warsaw, and from 2008 she has also ran a private medical practice. For several years, she has been working for the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights: she delivers lectures, workshops and participates in educational projects. She is a psychologist as well. Anna Rusek – a doctor of medical sciences, graduate of the Faculty of Medicine at the Medical University of Silesia, second degree specialist in psychiatry. In 1989, she received the title of the doctor of medical sciences for her thesis on mental disorders in the burn disease. She completed her postgraduate studies in the field of HR management, entrepreneurship and career counselling – organi- 84