Kobza Ihor Ivanovych

• Ihor Ivanovych Kobza is a professor and the Head of the Department of Hospital Surgery / Surgery No. 2 (since 2000).
• He graduated from the Medical Faculty of the Lviv Medical Institute in 1979.
• Career experience: surgeon (1979–1986), Head of the Vascular Surgery Department of the Lviv Regional Clinical Hospital (since 1986); part-time lecturer (1991–1992, 1998–2000); and, since 2000, Head of the Department of Hospital Surgery / Surgery No. 2 at the Lviv Medical University.
• He earned his Candidate of Medical Sciences degree in 1986, Doctor of Medical Sciences degree in 1998, was awarded the title of Associate Professor in 2003, and Professor in 2004.

• diagnostic criteria and surgical approaches in vascular operations, particularly those aimed at revascularization of critically ischemic limbs in patients with multifocal arterial lesions;
• surgery for critical lower limb ischemia and prevention of post-revascularization complications;
• diagnosis and surgical treatment of chronic cerebral ischemia;
• repeat reconstructive surgeries on major blood vessels;
• aortic aneurysm surgery; radical surgery for renal cancer with intravenous metastasis;
• surgical treatment of vascular prosthesis infections.
• He is the author of approximately 210 scientific and educational-methodical publications, including a monograph, an inventor’s certificate, and 9 Ukrainian patents.
• Has supervised 2 PhD candidates.