FROM THE HEART OF ACHILLES CHREPTOWSKY: EX UNITATE VIRES (TRIBUTE FOR HIS 25TH ANNIVERSARY FROM DEATH)

Abstract

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the death of Dr. Achilles N. Chreptowsky (June 6, 1920 – May 9, 1998), a long-time leader of the Ukrainian medical community, an active member of the Ukrainian Medical Association of North America, the initiator of the unification of Ukrainian medical communities around the world, the chairman of the World Federation of Ukrainian Medical Societies (SFULT) and the organizer of the first four congresses of WFUMA (World Federation of Ukrainian Medical Associations), including in Kyiv and Lviv in 1990 and also in Kharkiv in 1992; the restoration of the activities of the medical commission of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTSh) and its journal Likarsky visnih (currently the Proceedings of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. Medical Sciences (Medical Sciences, ISSN 2708-8634; eISSN 2708-8642), accounting for 2023, we present a conversation with his granddaughter Ms. Laryssa Ivanna Reifel (of the Chreptowsky family and current President of the Ukrainian Culture Center of Los Angeles) about the current problems of today's Ukraine during a full-scale war on its territory.