On December 17, 2019 at the Medical Institute of Sumy State University a scientific and practical conference was held with the participation of the specialists of the Heart Institute. Director of the Heart Institute, Professor Boris Todurov gave the opening address and read a report on “Pulmonary embolism.” Also, one of the speakers at the conference was the assistant of the Department of Cardiac Surgery of the P. Shupik National Academy of Postgraduate Education Cardiac Surgeon Vadym Sakalov with the topic of the report “Critical Congenital Heart Diseases”. After the conference, doctors of the Heart Institute (Maxim Rotar, Oleksiy Polishchuk, Vasyl Karpenko, Vadym Sakalov) held a consultative reception of patients – 40 adult patients and 28 children with various heart diseases were examined at the University Clinic.

In addition, cardiologist of the Heart Institute Olga Kononenko conducted a master-class for the Sumy colleagues on the diagnosis of congenital and acquired heart defects.