Ulana Suprun

Ulana Suprun is a medical doctor, the director of Humanitarian Initiatives of the Ukrainian World Congress and founder of Patriot Defence. She was appointed the director of the School of Rehabilitation Medicine at the Ukrainian Catholic University in September 2015. Suprun became a freelance consultant for the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Health in September 2015. Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman approached her about becoming the new Deputy Minister of Health of Ukraine in early July 2016, while this nomination was publicly supported by President Petro Proshenko. On July 22, 2016 she was appointed by Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers. On July 27, 2016 Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers approved a resolution appointing Suprun as the acting Minister of Healthcare.

Suprun was born to a Ukrainian family in Detroit, Michigan. She attended Immaculate Conception Ukrainian Catholic School and was otherwise very active in the Ukrainian diaspora community. After graduating from medical school, she worked and lived in the United States.

Suprun received her medical degree from Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. She is an Assistant Clinical Professor,Pathology, at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai;

Suprun was vice medical director of a women's imaging centre, Medical Imaging of Manhattan. In 2013, she and her husband moved to Ukraine. From 29 November, both were on the Maidan during the Revolution of Dignity in Kyiv (2014 Ukrainian revolution). Ulana worked in the medical services of the Euromaidan. This subsequently led to her position at the Ukrainian World Congress and later to the founding of “Patriot Defence,” a non-governmental organization (NGO) that provides tactical medicine training and distributes NATO Standard Improved First Aid Kits (IFAKs) to Ukraine’s servicemen.

On July 11, 2015, President Petro Proshenko conferred citizenship to Suprun and her spouse Marko stating, "your efforts saved thousands of lives." The July decree conferring citizenship was possible due to the President's constitutional authority, and deemed "in the state's interest." Suprun became the Minister of Healthcare later that month.