VIENNA – In a video interview at ECR 2026, Dr. Uliana Pidvalna, an associate professor at Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, explains how radiologists in Ukraine keep working despite missile attacks and power outages. Electricity can disappear for hours. Work follows the grid, with narrow windows to scan, teach, and write.
“Even being under attack, without electricity, working with backup generators and UPS systems, we try to do what we have to do,” she says. Patients still need care. Teaching continues. Scientific deadlines are still met
International collaboration, she stresses, is essential. “We don’t need to be isolated; we have to be part of the international community.” Despite the absence of flights, more than 250 Ukrainian delegates reached ECR this year, many after long journeys across Europe.
Pidvalna also expressed deep gratitude for support from European colleagues and the ESR, including the translation of 2,500 pages of radiology e-books into Ukrainian, giving clinicians and trainees free access to modern educational resources.
“Isolation is not an option,” she says. Ukrainian radiologists want to contribute, not as victims, but as partners in the global scientific community.
Video produced by: Christof G. Pelz | GRAFIFANT Creation | www.grafifant.at | 2026. Homepage portrait photo by Christof G. Pelz.
Our full coverage of ECR 2026 can be found here.
