Report of the Human Rights Defender on the activities of the National Preventive Mechanism in Poland in 2012 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 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 of 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 psychodynamic psychotherapy training in Cracow. Katarzyna Prot-Klinger – PhD, Professor of the Academy of Special Education, psychiatrist, psychotherapist, group analyst at the Academy of Special Education. She runs her private practice. She is particularly interested in the development of the environmental psychiatry and psychological effects of traumatic experiences. Maria Załuska – associate professor, PhD, psychiatrist. She received her medical diploma in 1973 at the Medical University in Warsaw. Head of the ward and of the IV Clinic at the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology in Bielański Hospital. Lecturer at the Faculty of Family Studies at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. 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 – organisation of heath care centres. Between 1978 and 1992, she was employed at the Psychiatric Clinic of the Medical University of Silesia in Tarnowskie Góry. Since 1992 until now, she has been employed in the Psychiatric Hospital in Toszek. Expert witness at Regional Court in Gliwice, expert witness at the Episcopal Court in Gliwice. 112