Ukrainian Physicians’ Society

Ukrainian Physicians’ Society (Українське лікарське товариство; Ukrainske likarske tovarystvo, or УЛТ; ULT). A professional association of Ukrainian physicians in Western Ukraine, founded in October 1910 in Lviv by 63 members. Its aims were to promote the interests of Ukrainian physicians, raise their qualifications, and improve health care in Ukraine. Its precursor was the Medical Commission of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (est 1898). To raise the level of popular knowledge about sanitation and health the ULT published the monthly Zdorovlie (1912–14). With the Shevchenko Scientific Society it published the scientific journal Likars’kyi vistnyk (1920–39). It was also instrumental in setting up the Ukrainian Hygienic Society (1929) and worked closely with it. The membership of the ULT was 205 in 1925, and 289 in 1937 (268 in Galicia). The association held four scientific conferences (1927, 1931, 1933, and 1935). With the financial support of Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky it built the Ukrainian hospital of the Narodnia Lichnytsia in Lviv in 1935. The presidents of the ULT were Yevhen Ozarkevych, T. Burachynsky, and Mariian Panchyshyn, and the membership included Ivan Ya. Horbachevsky, Ivan Kurovets, Maksym Muzyka, Sofiia Parfanovych, and Roman Osinchuk. The association was dissolved with the Soviet occupation of Galicia in 1939. It was revived in Lviv in April 1990 under the new president O. Kitsera.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]