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VIC-Ukraine Aid

OUR MISSION

HUG - Heal Ukraine Group

The VIC Management Team, including Dr. Mark Poznansky and Phoebe Ingram, support a network of Harvard Medical School and affiliated hospital based Ukrainian American physicians to provide medical relief to Ukraine.
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The mission of our Heal Ukraine Group (HUG) in Boston is:

  • To provide medical supplies and expertise directly to Ukraine.
  • To support the transfer of patients with complex medical and surgical issues from Ukraine to hospitals in Europe and the USA
  • Increase public awareness about the changing face of unmet medical needs in Ukraine
  • Fundraising for NGO activities with which our team members are associated
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Ukrainian American Physicians Discuss Efforts to Provide Urgent Medical Aid in a Time of War

Gennadiy Fuzaylov, MD
Pediatric Anesthesiologist, MGH Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, HMS President and Founder, Doctors Collaborating to Help Children
Nelya Melnitchouk, MD, MSc

Colorectal Surgeon, BWH
Assistant Professor of Surgery, HMS
President and Founder, Global Medical Knowledge Alliance

Serguei Melnitchouk, MD, MPH
Cardiac Surgeon, MGH Co-Director, Heart Valve Program Assistant Professor of Surgery, HMS Founder Global Medical Knowledge Alliance
Dr. Dana Rumak
Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
Polina Teslyar, MD

Associate Psychiatrist, BWH
Instructor, HMS

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Mark C. Poznansky, MD, PhD

Director, Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center, MGH
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

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