Yuri Ganushchak MD, PhD

Yuri Ganushchak is working as a project leader in the Department of Extracorporeal Technology at the Heart and Vascular Centre, Maastricht University Medical Centre, the Netherlands. He graduated cum laude from medical school at the Crimean Medical Institute in 1976 and received a degree in general surgery from the Kyiv Institute of Physicians in 1981. Later, after 2 years of training at the Kyiv Institute of Thoracic Surgery and Tuberculosis, received a specialization in thoracic surgery. However, in 1984 he accepted an invitation from Kiev Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery and was trained as a physician-perfusionist. In 1985 after an extramural study he graduated from Kyiv University with a cum laude diploma in philosophy, Yuri became a Doctor in Anesthesiology at the Kyiv Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery in 1989 through his research in gas emboli during cardiac surgery interventions.  Since 1992 he has been employed as a senior perfusionist in Maastricht University Medical Centre. In 2014 his investigations in the area of extracorporeal technology resulted in his second doctoral degree.