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. Natalka Suchowerska is speaking at EPSM23 in New Zealand about the state of radiation oncology during the war in Ukraine. During the talk she showed the video recording by Dr. Andriy Hanych from the frontline. She concluded the talk with petitioning for donations of radiotherapy equipment to support the cancer treatments in . Help…
Following the observership visits in early 2023, the team from Icon Group and HUG are continuing to collaborate with Nadiia Honcharenko and Anna Fedorova from the Feofaniya Clinical Hospital in Kyiv. Fortnightly virtual meetings have been setup and the team discuss any technical challenges they are facing or may want advice on, but they are…
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…
On October 11th, 2023 Dr. Sofiia-Iryna Zaluska gave a presentation on her Stanford training experience to her colleagues at Lviv Regional Cancer Center. She spoke on the advances in radiation oncology, discussed the staffing levels and brought the analogy to situation in her cancer center. Help Ukraine Group has identified a few collaborative projects for…
