Cardiovascular surgeon, transplantologist

2010-2016- studied of the Bukovinian State Medical University, graduated with honors.

2016-2019 – internship in the specialty “General Surgery” at the State Institute “Shalimov’s National Institute of Surgery and Transplantology” National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

In 2019, she received a specialization in the specialty “Surgery of the heart and main vessels” at the Amosov’s National Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery” National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

2019 – 2022 – worked as a doctor – cardiac surgeon of the Department of Transplantation and Heart Surgery at the State Institute “Shalimov’s National Institute of Surgery and Transplantology” National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

In 2015, she completed a 3-month fellowship at the Department of General Surgery of Landesklinikum Amstetten (Amstetten, Austria).

In 2019, she studied at the Cardiac Surgery School of the European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgeons (EACTS) (Windsor, London , Great Britain)

In the fall of 2022, she completed a 3-month observership in the Heart and Lung Transplantation program at Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, USA) and Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville, USA).

In October 2023, had observership in The Heart- Lung transplantation at the Stanford Transplant Center (Palo-Alto, California, USA and Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville, Tennessee, USA).

Active participant of all-Ukrainian and international conferences and symposia.

Author and co-author of 24 scientific works (including in foreign journals), co-author of 5 patents of Ukraine for inventions.

Membership in associations:
European Association for Cardio – Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)
International Society Heart and Ling Transplantation (ISHLT)
European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT)
Association of Surgeons of Ukraine

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

E-mail: chaikovska.sofia@gmail.com