Head of Department
Borys Todurov – Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Honored Doctor of Ukraine
The department faculty
| Borys Todurov | Sergiy Furkalo |
| Oleg Zelenchuk | Vitaly Demyanchuk |
| Natalia Volodkina | Serhii Sudakevych |
| Olga Nadorak | Vadim Sakalov |
| Anatoliy Ivanyuk | Mykola Stan |
Historical reference
Department Of Cardiac Surgery, X-Ray Endovascular, and Extracorporeal Technologies was founded in accordance with the Letter of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine (MHU) No. 08,01-47/22/352-16/1027 dated April 25, 2016 by an order of the National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education named after P. Shupyk № 1649 dated May 4, 2016 and works on the basis of the Heart Institute of the MHU. The head of the Department, Borys Todorov is a Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Honored Doctor of Ukraine.
Educational and methodological work
The educational and methodological work of the Department includes postgraduate training of cardiovascular surgeons in specialization cycles and pre-certification courses. In addition, the Department conducts courses of thematic improvement (TI) courses for doctors, which mainly cover the methods of diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. These TI courses are addressed to cardiologists, surgeons, specialists of functional diagnostics, therapists, general practitioners – family physicians, as well as doctors of other specialties on the topics of the courses. The Department is adjacent to the specialty “Cardiovascular Surgery” and works on the creation of educational literature on diverse aspects of cardiac surgery, cardiology, and new courses of thematic improvement as well as methodological materials.
List of the courses held at the Department:
Specialization “Cardiac and Vascular Surgery”;
Pre-certification course “Surgery of the heart and trunk vessels”;
TI course “Modern technologies of treatment of atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease”;
TI course “Advanced methods of reconstructive cardiac surgery”;
TI course “Modern methods of diagnosis and treatment of venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism”;
TI course “Intervention methods of diagnosis and treatment of cardiac and vascular diseases”;
TI course “Actual questions of extracorporeal methods of treatment”
TI course “The contemporary methods of treatment of heart failure and cardiomyopathy”
TI course “Conducting patients before and after cardiac surgery”
Medical work
Consultative and diagnostic work is carried out by the staff of the Department at the clinical base of Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine. Patient management, diagnostic procedures and therapeutic interventions are carried out by teachers and residents of the Department. The clinic and diagnostic department of the Heart Institute heart carries out an advisory, medical treatment at the department of surgical treatment of coronary heart disease and trunk vessels as well as at the other units of the Heart Institute. The teachers as a rule have the top or the first qualification category in the fields of “Cardiac and Vascular Surgery”, “Cardiology”, “Anesthesiology and Intensive Care”.
Head of the Department, Professor Borys Todurov is actively working on improving the regulatory framework for cardiovascular surgery. In addition, he regularly conducts a consultative reception of patients at the Heart Institute, conducts together with the staff of the department working trips to the ATO area with the provision of advisory services to the patients, conducts surgical treatments, active public and educational work with broad media coverage.
The partners of the department
The clinical base of the Department of cardiac surgery, X-ray endovascular and extracorporeal technologies is the Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine” (Bratyslavska Str. 5A, Kyiv 02660, Ukraine, tel: +380 44 291 61 31; www.heart.kiev.ua). Members of the Department’s staff work in the units of the Heart Institute, perform consulting, medical and operational work in the consultative and diagnostic outpatient unit, the unite of surgical treatment of coronary heart disease and great vessels, and other units of the Heart Institute.
An important component of the collaboration of the department and the clinical base is the holding of scientific and practical conferences in cooperation with the staff of the Heart Institute. The participants of these conferences are the students of the Department, the staff of the Heart Institute, as well as staff of other medical and prophylactic institutions of Kyiv and regions of Ukraine.
In collaboration with the Department, the Ukrainian Association of Specialists in Arrhythmology and Electrophysiology of the Heart functions on the basis the Institute of the Heart that publishes a scientific journal “Cardiac surgery and interventional cardiology” (chief editor – Borys Todurov, deputy editor – Oleg Zharinov) as well as the All-Ukrainian Association of Cardiothoracic, Endovascular Surgery, and Transplantation (President – Borys Todurov).
Regulations on the department
The original regulations document (pdf, in Ukrainian) is available for download here
Contacts:
Bratyslavska Str. 5A, Kyiv 02660, Ukraine
tel: +380 50 501 70 28, +380 44 291 5525,
e-mail: kafedra.cardio@gmail.com