Yaroslav Susak

YAROSLAV MYKHAILOVYCH SUSAK Doctor of Medicine, Professor, Head at the Department of Surgery with a Course of Emergency and Vascular Surgery at Bogomolets National Medical University. He was born in 1964, Ukrainian. Ya.M. Susak is a laureate of the Order of Dignity of the European Parliament (1997) and an Honoured Doctor of Ukraine (2018). In 1987, he graduated from the Medical Faculty of Lviv Order of Peoples’ Friendship of the State Medical Institute. From 1987 to 1988,he took an internship in the specialty “Surgery” in Kyiv Hospital of Emergency Medical Care. From1988 to 1991, he worked as a surgeon at the Policlinic No. 4 of Leninhradskyi district of the city of Kyiv. From1991, he worked as a senior laboratory assistant, from 1993,as an assistant and from 1998 to 2006, he worked as an associate professor at the Department of General Surgery No.1of Bogomolets National Medical University. From 2006 to 2019, he worked as a professor of the department of surgery of the dental faculty of Bogomolets National Medical University.In 1998, he received a higher qualification grade in the specialty of Surgery. In 1997, he defended his thesis for the degree of Candidate of Medical Sciences on the subject “The importance of biliary microlithiasis in the selection of treatment tactics for acute relapsing pancreatitis”. In 2004, he defended his thesis for the degree of Doctor of Medicine on the subject “Diagnosis and treatment of non-inflammatory diseases of the pancreas complicated by jaundice”. He defended four Ph.D. theses under the guidance of Professor Ya.M. Susak. His has 32 years of scientific and pedagogical experience and 37 years of medical experience. He is B2 level fluent in English (British Council). He is the co-author of 4 teaching manuals, 24 patents and 225 scientific papers. The Hirsch index is 7(Scopus – 7). From 2008,he was a clinical head of the Specialized Department of Liver Surgery, Bile Ducts and Pancreas of Kyiv City Clinical Emergency Hospital. Since 2019, he has been working as the Head of the Department of Surgery No. 4, which is now reorganized into the Department of Surgery with a course of Emergency and Vascular Surgery.