ALTA ALATIS PATENT [THE SKY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE WINGS] (ON THE OCCASION OF DR. VASSYL LONCHYNA'S ANNIVERSARY)

Abstract

the medical 2017-2018 he at The MacLean Center Medical Ethics at of Chicago edited the book «Di ffi cult Decisions in Cardiothoracic Critical Care Surgery» (Springer, 2019). He is a member of Plast, The Shevchenko Scienti fi c Society (SSS), The Society of Thorac-ic Surgeons (STS), The European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS), The American College of Surgeons (ACS) and The American College of Cardiology (ACC). He has a multifaceted personality with 45 years of physician experience at US clinics. Today, he is an Associate Editor of the journal «Proceedings of the Shevchenko Scienti fi c Society. Medical Sciences.», a lecturer of «Ethics for the physician» course at the School of Bioethics of the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv), and an associate of the Cardiac Surgery Department of the Lviv Regional Clinical Hospital. The article brie fl y presents biographical information on the occasion of Mr. Vassyl Lonchyna’s 70th anniversary.