Ilja Jemez

Biography

Date of birth: 21.02.1956

Place of birth. Education. Born in Vorkuta in a large Ukrainian family. In 1979, he graduated from the Kiev Medical Institute (specialization - Surgery). In 1983, he completed his clinical residency at the Research Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery. In 1997, he defended his doctoral thesis, and in 2002 - his habilitation thesis. Author of over 70 scientific papers on cardiac surgery.

Career. After obtaining a medical practice license in Australia, Canada, and France, he worked as a pediatric heart surgeon from 1993 to 1998 in leading cardiac surgery centers in these countries.

1993 - Resident at the Children's Hospital (Sydney, Australia), 1994 - Specialist in Cardiac Surgery at the Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto, Canada), 1996 - Specialist in Cardiac Surgery at the Royal Children's Hospital (Melbourne, Australia), 1998 - Specialist in Cardiac Surgery at Hospital J. Cartier (Paris, France).

As the first in Ukraine, he began successfully operating on newborns with complex heart defects and performing reconstructive surgeries on heart valves without the use of artificial prostheses.

Since 1997, he has headed the Children's Heart Surgery Center of the Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine (Kiev).

In 2003, he became the head of the Scientific-Practical Medical Center for Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine.

On December 21, 2010, he was appointed Minister of Health of Ukraine by decree of President Viktor Yanukovych (replacing the resigned Zinoviy Mytnyk that day). On May 17, 2011, he resigned (the reason given by the president was the lack of reforms in the sector).

On March 4, 2020, the Parliament confirmed the new government, and Illya Emets was appointed Minister of Health of Ukraine.

On March 30, 2020, Illya Emets was dismissed as Minister of Health.

Awards. Honored Doctor of Ukraine (1993).

Public Activities. Since 1992, he has been the founder of the Rotary International Club in Kiev, where he led the medical humanitarian program. In 1993, he founded the international charity fund Children's Heart, which helps children with congenital heart defects.

Declaration. In the declaration for 2019, Illya Emets owns a plot of 1003 square meters, a house of 375.5 square meters, and an apartment in Kiev. Another plot belongs to him in the Rivne region.

Emets reported Swiss watches Patek Philippe. In 2019, he earned 708 thousand Hryvnias and almost 145,000 pension. He has 485,000 Hryvnias, 3,741 dollars, and 25,000 euros in bank accounts, in cash - 670,000 Hryvnias, 74,000 dollars, and 57,000 euros.

18.02.2022