Help Ukraine Group (HUG) has already organized 49 observership positions abroad. We thank the institutions for volunteering to train Ukrainian onco-practitioners and our sponsors for providing funding for travel and living expenses (institutional support, UICC grants, Stanford Global Scholars grant). For 2024, we are planning 18 observership positions for radiation oncologists and medical physicists are planned for 2024 together with ASTRO and ESTRO 2024 meeting attendance.
Help Ukraine Group and Global Medical Knowledge Alliance are excited to welcome 2 Ukrainian observers in Canada! Dr. Orysya Burak and Taras Teleshchuk, radiation oncologist and medical physicist from Lviv Regional Cancer Center, started their trip with attending CARO 2024 conference in Vancouver and continuing with a 1-month long training at Princess Margaret and Sunnybrook…
Help Ukraine Group is excited to start our 2024 observership program in US/Canada for 18 Ukrainian oncology professionals. First 4 observers arrived to US and started their 1-month long training this week. We are grateful to Northwestern Medicine and Dr. Strauss for hosting Drs. Sofiia Zaluska and Ihor Khoma, radiation oncologists from Lviv Regional Cancer…
Help Ukraine Group – HUG is grateful to ESTRO and Future Ukraine Ltd, Australia for supporting Ukrainian radiation oncology during the war and sponsoring attendance of Foundations of Leadership in Radiation Oncology course alongside the ESTRO 2024 annual meeting attendance in Glasgow, UK. Loads of gratitude to Associate Professor Dr. Natalka Suchowerska, HUG’s Vice President,…
We are proud of Dr. Andrii Hrynkiv for delivering the talk at Lviv Regional Cancer Center on his month-long observership at Stanford Medical Oncology Department organized by HUG. We are grateful to Stanford Global Scholars grant that HUG received as well as faculty and staff of Medical Oncology department for training Drs. Andriy Hrynkiv and…
It’s a true pleasure for Help Ukraine Group to welcome two medical oncologists from Ukraine: Dr. Andrii Hrynkiv from Lviv Regional Cancer Center and Dr. Kateryna Cherchenko from the National Cancer Institute in Kyiv. Drs. Hrynkiv and Cherchenko attended ASCO GI 2004 meeting in San Francisco and started a month-long observership at Stanford University medical…
Dear Ukrainian radiation oncologists and medical physicists, Help Ukraine Group is organizing observerships for radiation oncologists and medical physicists in USA based on UICC grant and institutional support. We have 10 observership positions open in the leading cancer centers in US: – 2 with 3 months duration, – 5 with 1 month duration, – 3…
Dr. Iryna Kriachok, a head of chemotherapy of hemoblastoses department at the National Cancer Institute in Kyiv, has completed 1-month long observership at the Bone and Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy (BMT-CT) department at Stanford. She will also attend ASH 2023 conference in San Diego before returning back to Ukraine. Here are her impressions from…
Dr. Kseniia Bolharina, a pediatric oncologist from the National Cancer Institute in Kyiv, completed her 1-month long observership at Stanford. Here are her impressions: “My observership was 1 month in pediatric oncology. I seem to have moved into the future! During this time I observed how decisions are made in the environment of all the…
HUG expresses gratitude to the Stanford Bone and Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy (BMT-CT) devision for welcoming Dr. Iryna Kriachok, a head of scientific and research department of chemotherapy of hemoblastoses at NCI, Kyiv. Stanford BMT-CT department has 52 beds dedicated to BMT and Cellular therapy. The program performs autologous and allogeneic transplants for over…
Help Ukraine Group welcomes a pediatric oncologist from National Cancer Institute in Kyiv – Dr. Kseniia Bolharina. Dr. Bolharina will spend one month with Stanford Pediatric Oncology to observe immunotherapy, CAR-T cell therapy, allogenic transplants and pediatric solid tumor treatments. Many thanks to Stanford Pediatric Oncology department for training and Stanford Global Scholars grant for…
Help Ukraine Group (HUG) had an honor and a pleasure to participate in welcoming a team of Ukrainian doctors from the Heart Institute in Kyiv who performed the first in Ukraine heart-lung transplant on October 25th, 2023. Five Ukrainian transplant specialists arrived to Stanford Heart-Lung and Lung Transplant department for 1 week observership 10/28/23-11/5/23: Dr….
Dr. Lesya Mytsak from Precarpathian Clinical Oncological Center has completed her training at UC, Irvine Radiation Oncology for 3 weeks. We are very grateful to Dr. Allen Chen and all the UC Irvine faculty and staff for providing such an amazing experience for her. Dr. Mytsak’s cancer center will receive a linear accelerator to replace…
Three Ukrainian onco practitioners: Dr. Shepil, a radiation oncologist from Kyiv Regional Cancer Center, and two medical physicists, Dr. Ruslan Zelinskyi from Spizhenko Clinic and Dr. Serhii Brovchuk from Kyiv Regional Cancer Center observed at Stanford Radiation Oncology Department for a week. The week was productive and busy for the observers: they got a tour…
Two radiation oncologists from Lviv Regional Cancer Center were trained at Stanford Radiation Oncology Department from September 4th to October 1st, 2023. They have participated in all educational activities for radiation oncology residents, attended tumor boards and chart rounds, shadowed physicians in patients’ visits, learned radiotherapy contouring, planning, and plan review. On October 1-3, 2023…
After hearing one of HUG’s presentations regarding situation with radiotherapy in Ukraine with the call for action, Ross Koscharsky, Global Director of ICON Cancer Center at ICON Group responded with the offer to train 2 Ukrainian medical physicists in Australia. A partnership has been born. Natalka Suchowerska, a HUG member and Australia native, together with…
