On September 5, 2024, at the Shupyk National Healthcare University of Ukraine, in a one-time specialized academic council, the official defense of the dissertations of post-graduate students of the department of cardiac surgery, X-ray endovascular and extracorporeal technologies Igor Stetsyuk (scientific supervisor - Professor Borys Todurov) and Mykhailo Todurov (scientific supervisor – associate professor Oleg Zelenchuk) took place.