Sofia Chaikovska

Transplantologist, cardiovascular surgeon, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD).

Member of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT), European Society of Organ Transplantation (ESOT), European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgeons (EACTS).

• 2010 – 2016 – studied of the Bukovinian State Medical University, graduated with honors
• 2016 – 2019 –internship in the specialty “General Surgery» at the SI “Shalimov National Institute of Surgery and Transplantology»
• 2019 – specialization “Surgery of the Heart and Main Vessels” at the the SI “Amosov`s National Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery”.
• 2019 – 2022 – cardiovascular surgeon in the Department of Surgery and Heart Transplantation of the SI “Shalimov National Institute of Surgery and Transplantology».
• Since January 2023 – works as a cardiovascular surgeon in the Department of Surgical Treatment of Myocardial Pathology and Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues of the State Institution “Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine”
• 2024 – specialization «Transplantology» at the State Institution “Shalimov National Institute of Surgery and Transplantology».

In September 2023, she entered postgraduate study – PhD student at the Shupyk National Healthcare University of Ukraine in specialty 222 Medicine at the Department of Cardiac Surgery, X-ray Endovascular and Extracorporeal Technologies.

In April 2025, she defended dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) on the topic ” The use of marginal donor hearts as a method for expanding the donor pool organs in orthotopic heart transplantation”

Foreign training in heart and lung transplantation:
• 2022 – 3 – month internship at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• 2022 – Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
• 2023 – Stanford Transplant Center, Palo Alto, California, USA.
• 2024 – NYU Langone Health, New York, USA.
• 2024 – Toronto General Hospital, Ontario, Canada.
• 2024 – Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (Philadelphia, USA)
• 2024 – Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden.
• 2024 – Medizinischen Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Germany.
• 2024 – Berlin Heart Course Ex-Cor – Zabrze, Poland.

, 2015 – received a scholarship for a 3-month internship in the Department of General Surgery, Landesklinikum Amstetten (Amstetten, Austria)
2019 – received a grant for training at the School of Cardiac Surgery of the European Association of Cardiovascular Surgeons (Windsor, Great Britain)

Presented reports on heart transplantation at the following international conferences:
• International Society Meeting of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT-meeting 2024), Prague, Czech Republic.
• Scandinavian Heart and Lung Transplantation Congress (SATS-meeting 2024), Gothenburg, Sweden
• European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgeons Meeting (EACTS 2024), Portugal, Lisbon.
• German Congress of Transplantation (DTG 2024), Freiburg, Germany.
• Euro-Asian Congress of Cardiothoracic Surgeons (EABM 2024), Iasi, Romania.
• Nordic Light Conference 2025, Stockholm, Sweden.

Invited as a keynote speaker in the section “Women in Transplantation” at the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation Meeting (ISHLT meeting 2025), Boston, USA.

Professional interests:
Transplantation of the heart, lungs, heart-lung complex

E-mail: chaikovska.sofia@gmail.com