Exclusive interview with Vasyl LAZORYSHYNETS, President of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, for Ukrinform

❗️Without science, the healthcare system cannot exist. We are making every effort to preserve Ukraine’s scientific potential

📌On September 26, 2025, in an interview with Ukrinform, President of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Academician Vasyl LAZORYSHYNETS shared how the Academy and its institutes are transforming in the context of war:

✅ how operational management and adaptation systems have been developed;

✅which areas have become priorities in research, in particular the treatment of combat injuries, the use of magnets in minimally invasive surgery, and three-dimensional modeling;

✅what challenges institutions face in the process of joining the Medical Guarantees Program (financing, tariffs, management, personnel instability);

✅how the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine integrates science into the healthcare system, cooperates with the international community, and what it plans to do in the future;

✅the positive experience of the Amosov National Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery is cited as an example of a successful development model.

☝️This interview is an important testimony to the direction in which medical science is moving in Ukraine during the war and how it seeks to preserve its achievements and develop further.

❗️Read the full version of the extensive exclusive interview for Ukrinform at the link (in Ukrainian):

👉 Text of the interview on the Ukrinform website

(date of publication on the website 04.10.2025)