On November 30, 2007, the Chair of Neurology and Neurosurgery at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn was established by order of the Rector of UWM on the basis of the UWM Senate Resolution No. 242 of 30/11/2007. Prof. dr hab. n. med. Wojciech Maksymowicz.
On May 26, 2017, the Senate of the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn issued an opinion on Resolution No. 160 on the establishment of Collegium Medicum as an organizational unit of the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn.
Pursuant to Resolution No. 156 of the UWM Senate, two Faculties were established: Medicine and Health Sciences. The Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery was assigned to the Faculty of Medicine of the Collegium Medicum of the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn.
Pursuant to Regulation No. 16/2018 of the Rector of the University of Warmia and Mazury of March 12, 2018, at the request of the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, the Department of Neurology is established.
Regulation No. 19/2018 of the Rector of the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn of March 12, 2018, at the request of the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, changes the name of the Department of Neurology, Neurosurgery to the Department of Neurosurgery.
The head of the Neurology Department is Prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Selmaj, MD, PhD.
The employees of the Department conduct classes with students of the medical faculty of the Medical Faculty of Collegium Medicum UWM as well as with students of the Faculty of Health Sciences in the faculties of Nursing, Emergency Medical Services and other faculties as part of university-wide lectures.