On the 85th anniversary of Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine, Professor Valeriі Mykolayovych Korotkyі

July 1, 2022 marks the 85th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Ukrainian surgeon, Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine, MD, Professor Valeriі Mykolayovych Korotkyі. V. M. Korotkyi was born into a family of employees in the town of Hlukhiv in the Sumy region. He graduated from Chernivtsi Medical Institute in 1961. According to work placement, V. M. Korotkyi was assigned to the Vashkiv central regional hospital in the Chernivtsi region and worked there as a surgeon from 1961 to 1964. From 1964 to 1967, he completed his postgraduate education at the Department of Surgery of the Kyiv Institute for Advanced Training of physicians, after which he successfully defended his dissertation on the surgical treatment of three-dimensional lung formations (supervisor: Academician M. M. Amosov). From 1967 to 1968, he worked as an assistant at the Department of Pediatric Surgery; from 1967 to 1975, as an assistant at the Department of Thoracoabdominal Surgery of the Institute for Advanced Training of Physicians; and from 1975 to 1985, as an associate professor at the same department. In 1984, he defended his doctoral dissertation on the pathogenetic treatment of patients with portal hypertension syndrome (scientific consultant: Academician O. O. Shalimov). From 1980 to 1985, he held the position of head of the Portal Hypertension Department of the Kyiv Institute of Clinical and Experimental Surgery (now the Shalimov National Institute of Surgery and Transplantology). From 1985 to 2006, V. M. Korotkyi headed the Department of Hospital Surgery (since 2008 — Surgery #2) at Bogomolets National Medical University. From 2006 to 2017, he worked as a professor in the same department. Professor V. M. Korotkyi carried out research in such medical fields as surgical gastroenterology, vascular surgery, and the development of technologies for minimally invasive laparoscopic surgical interventions in diseases of the abdominal cavity. He substantiated the tactics of surgical treatment of complications of cirrhosis of the liver, peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum, pathology of the pancreatic-biliary tract, intestines, pancreatic cancer, and traumatic injuries of the pancreas and spleen. In 1986, V. M. Korotkyi became a Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in the field of science and technology for a series of works titled «Development, theoretical justification and clinical implementation of new methods of surgical treatment, detoxification and rehabilitation of patients with liver and bile duct diseases». In 2001, he was awarded the honorary title of «Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine». V. M. Korotkyi developed original surgical interventions in the treatment of liver cysts, portal hypertension, benign and malignant diseases of the pancreas, complicated gastric and duodenal ulcers, traumatic splenic injuries, acute and chronic pancreatitis, gallstone disease, acute intestinal obstruction, and common forms of peritonitis. The results of scientific research are presented in more than 400 scientific articles, 40 patents for inventions, and four monographs. He trained four doctors and nine candidates of medical sciences.