In a time of war, when most flee danger, he runs toward it — with a scalpel in hand and a team behind him. We are deeply honored to welcome Dr. Borys Todurov, one of the most courageous and visionary voices in cardiac surgery, as our Keynote Speaker at WTC 2025.

For over 35 years, Dr. Todurov has been at the forefront of transplant medicine in Ukraine — building institutions, training generations of surgeons, and saving lives. But in recent years, his operating room has been surrounded not only by monitors and instruments — but by air raid sirens and the threat of missiles.

Under extraordinary pressure, Dr. Todurov and his team have continued their mission:

• Performing over 500 lifesaving operations for wounded soldiers.

• Carrying out Ukraine’s first pediatric heart transplant and first heart-lung transplant — all while bombs fell around them.

• Leading evacuations of critical patients under fire, ensuring not only survival, but dignity and care.
  

In his keynote, “Transplant Under Stress: Operating in a Warzone,” Dr. Todurov will share an unforgettable journey through medicine at the edge —where the human heart is both the organ under his scalpel and the metaphor for a nation refusing to give up.

This is More than a Lecture… It’s a Story of Science, Resilience, and Hope

Do Not Miss This Moment!