Dr. Paweł Grabowski, MD, PhD – a medical doctor, maxillo-facial surgeon, palliative medicine specialist, bioethicist, and the founder and president of the Prophet Elijah Hospice Foundation (Fundacja Hospicjum Proroka Eliasza) in Podlasie. A graduate of the Jagiellonian University Medical College, he left a successful clinical career in Kraków and Warsaw to move to the rural areas of northeastern Poland. In 2009, he established Poland's first rural home hospice, and in 2022, opened a long-awaited inpatient hospice and education facility in Makówka. Dr. Grabowski is also a writer, poet, and playwright. For his outstanding humanitarian and medical work supporting terminally ill patients in excluded areas, he has been honored with numerous distinctions, including the Gold Cross of Merit from the President of Poland and the Jan Rodowicz "Anoda" Award.