On November 01, 2018, at the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theatre there was held solemn celebration on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the foundation of Shupyk National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Andrii Parubii, Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Hroisman, Primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine under the Kyiv Patriarchate, Patriarch of Kyiv Filaret, Primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Metropolitan of Kyiv Onuphrius, conveyed the greetings to the leading institution of postgraduate medical and pharmaceutical education of Ukraine.

The ceremony was attended by the Head of the Office of President of Ukraine Oleksii Dniprov, First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Iryna Herashchenko, Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Committee on Health Iryna Sysoenko, Director of the Department of Humanitarian and Social Policy of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine Vitalii Koblosh, Deputy Minister of Health Roman Ilyk, Deputy Minister of Education and Science Pavlo Hobzei, Presidents of the NAMS and NAS of Ukraine Academicians Vitalii Tsymbaliuk and Vasyl Kremin, Member of the Presidium of the NAS of Ukraine Academician Serhii Komisarenko, directors of health care departments of Kyiv oblast and Kyiv city administrations, representatives of health care departments of the regions of Ukraine, representatives of religious denominations, heads of medical services of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the Security Service of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, rectors and representatives of institutions of higher medical and pharmaceutical education from all regions of Ukraine.

A number of foreign guests came to the celebration, including Professor Tommy Linne (Coordinator of the cooperation with the Karolinska Institute, Sweden), Liu Jinghua (Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shanghai Ninth National Hospital, China), Wan Ping (Head of the Department of Gynecology at Shuguang Hospital of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine), Mubariz Aliyev (Head of the Department of General Surgery of Educational and Surgical Clinic of the Azerbaijan Medical University, Azerbaijan) and Liudmyla Evtushenko (Director of the Publishing House “Professional editions”, Belarus).

During the celebrations, a special postage stamp devoted to the Academy, and a coin “100 years of NMAPE” of 2 hryvnia denomination were presented.

Prominent workers of the Academy received a number of high state and industry awards, certificates and medals, and the awarding procedure continued the next day as well.


Thus, according to the Decree of President of Ukraine, Head of the Department of Emergency Medicine, Full Professor Ivan Zozulia was awarded the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise (4th degree); First Vice-rector, Full Professor Yuriy Vdovychenko - the Order of Merit (1st degree); Head of the Department of Dentistry, Full Professor Oleksiy Pavlenko - the Order of Merit (2nd degree);  Full Professor of the Department of Healthcare Management Nina Goida - the Order of Princess Olga (2rd degree); Head of the Department of Gastroenterology, Dietology and Endoscopy, Full Professor Natalia Kharchenko - the Order of Princess Olga (2rd degree); Head of the Department of Orthopedic Dentistry, Full Professor Vitaliy Bida - Honored Scientist and Technologist of Ukraine; Full Professor of the Department of Pathological and Topographic Anatomy Valeriy Silchenko – Honored Doctor of Ukraine; Full Professor of the Department of Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmaceuticals Raisa Korytniuk - Honored Pharmacist of Ukraine; Senior Researcher of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductology Tetiana Kolomiychenko - Honored Worker of Public Health of Ukraine; Head of the Laboratory of the Clinic of Reproductive Technologies of USIR  Volodymyr Sumenko - Honored Worker of Public Health of Ukraine; Vice-Rector for Maintenance and Supply Yuriy Sokhan - Medal for Valorous Labour.

The guests were shown a film and theatrical performance about the history and development of the Academy, outstanding figures who worked at the institution, the achievements and directions for the Academy's future development.

The celebrations continued on November 2 within the framework of the international scientific and practical conference “Shupyk National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education – a Century of Leadership and Innovation in Medical and Pharmaceutical Education and Science".

Rector of the Academy, Academician Yuriy Voronenko made a welcome speech and a report on the history of the Academy. Professors of the Karolinska Institute Angelica Linden Hirschberg, Academicians of the NAMS of Ukraine, Full Professors Volodymyr Kovalenko and Vasyl Lazorishinets, Corresponding Members of the NAMS of Ukraine, Full Professors: Natalia Gorovenko, Boris Todurov, Oleksandr Usenko, Borys Mankovskyi, Yelizaveta Shunko, Viacheslav Kaminskyi and Full Professor Ozar Mintser made their presentations at the conference.

The 100th anniversary is an epoch for our institution and country on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is just a minute of the world history. So, summing up and honoring those who laid the foundation of the Academy, we set new ambitious goals in serving the people of Ukraine.