Anna Młynik-Shawcross

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Anna Młynik-Shawcross (born May 22, 1955 in Gdańsk) - Polish doctor, activist of the opposition in the PRL period. Curriculum vitae

She is a graduate of the Medical Academy in Gdańsk, Wydz. Lekarski (1980). In 1976, she was a signatory of a protest letter to the Sejm of the Polish People's Republic against changes introduced by the PZPR in the Constitution. KOR's colleague, in the autumn of 1976, obtained on the premises of the Labor Court in Gdańsk the lists of people repressed and removed from work after the strikes in June 1976, including at the Gdańsk Shipyard Lenina and the Ship Repair Yard in Gdansk, which she handed to Bogdan Borusewicz to the KOR member, which made it possible for the repressed workers to reach and help. In the years 1977-1978 she participated in ROPCiO.

On November 5, 1977, she was a co-founder and signatory of the Declaration of the Students' Solidarity Committee of the Tri-City Universities, engaging in defending repressed persons, in information campaigns and in organizing student self-study and discussion meetings.

In the years 1978-1980 she cooperated with WZZ Wybrzeża. She was involved in independent publishing, including in the underground publishing house Klin. In August 1980 she participated in a strike at the Gdańsk Shipyard.

In 1980-1985 she was a doctor at the Nerwowo and Mental Illness Hospital "Drewnica" in Ząbki near Warsaw.

In April 1985 she emigrated to Great Britain. In 1987-2010 she was a psychiatrist (MRPsych) at The Maudsley and Bethlem Royal Hospital, Leicester Royal Hospital, then at Portsmouth NHS Trust.

Co-founder and president of charitable organization Help People with Autism in Poland operating in the UK since 2014.

Decorated with the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2009).

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