Denys Skoryi (Ukrainian: Скорий Денис Ігоревич; born April 16, 1979) is a surgeon, oncologist, professor, and politician from Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Skoryi accomplished this by raising additional public money for the Center from local businesses and inviting doctors from all over Ukraine to join his team.

In 2020, Skoryi joined Bloc Svitlychna Together!, a political party led by Yuliya Svitlychna and was elected to the Kharkiv Oblast Council of VIII convocation in order to influence the distribution of government funds for regional medicine, including channeling more funding for the Regional Center of Oncology.

Skoryi brought together a team of experienced doctors from all over Ukraine, and started partnerships with international colleagues and facilities.

Skoryi's team opened new departments, started to perform unique surgeries, inventing and patenting new medicinal methods and medical equipment.

As a member of the Kharkiv Oblast Council of VIII convocation, Skoryi is aiming his forces to further develop his Oncology Center as well as try to improve the Ukrainian medical industry overall.

From 2002 to 2004, Skoryi held an internship at the Institute of General and Urgent Surgery of the National Medical Academy of Ukraine (NMAU) (Ukrainian: Інститут загальної та невідкладної хірургії Академії Медичних Наук України) in Kharkiv and in the Central Hospital of Valky, Ukraine (distance education).

[9] From 2007 to 2015, Skoryi took part in various medical training courses in Ukraine and abroad, including Russia, China, Austria, Japan, Germany, and South Korea.

[3] As of 2021, Skoryi co-authored and registered 12 medicinal patents, published 111 scientific articles in medical periodicals, and released 4 monographs.

[15][17][16][20] When the new team came to manage the Regional Oncology Center, two of its hospital buildings were reported as half destroyed and in need of a complete renovation.

[17][15] Instead of providing support, regional authorities sent numerous inspections to check the facility, which interfered with the hospital's workflow and did not result in any positive changes.

[18][22][17] According to Skoryi, this and other regional authorities' actions towards the Center, such as delays in wages and in providing other promised funds, were signs of intentional pressure from the local government.

[15][17] On the other hand, the Healthcare Department of the Kharkiv Oblast Council stated they were doing enough to support the facility, their inspections were focused on benefitting the establishment in the future, and the hospital's management would not cooperate.

The Regional Oncology Center's management opened new departments to create adequate surgical and research areas and patients' wards.

[22][15][17] Skoryi's team formed the facility's International Board of Trustees, which included several members of public organizations.

[23][24][25] In addition to other issues, on several occasions, the new management was hindered by the Healthcare Department of the Kharkiv Oblast Council (Ukrainian: Департамент Охорони Здоров'я Харківської Обласної Державної Адміністрації).

[17] In November 2017, a new bill was passed by Verkhovna Rada of Ukrainian (Parliament of Ukraine), which allowed hospital administrators to manage their facilities on their own.

[26] In connection to all of these issues, Skoryi was in open conflict with the Kharkiv Regional Council's Healthcare Department and led active discussions and negotiations with them in regard to his facility all through 2017.

[15][22][17] In his fight, he received strong support from Ukrainian politician, lawyer, and at the time National Deputy of the Healthcare Department of Verkhovna Rada, Iryna Sysoyenko and Governor of Kharkiv Oblast in 2016–2019, Yuliya Svitlychna.

[17][15] Under Skoryi's management, the Regional Oncology Center team adopted internationally acclaimed treatment and workflow principles and medical protocols.

[18][7][27][21][28][29] In 2017, for the first time in Ukrainian history, to conceal post-surgical defects on patient's thorax, the Regional Center of Oncology team replaced the defect with a special metallic construction and moved a part of a back muscle (without cutting it out) and skin tissue from patient's back to his chest.

[7] Also in 2017, the Regional Center of Oncology team invented and were the first in the world to use the new methodology of the transcaval access to the inferior vena cava (a large vein that carries the deoxygenated blood from the lower and middle body into the right atrium of the heart).

[17][30] In 2017, the Governor of Kharkiv Oblast at the time, Yuliya Svitlychna discussed the issues of the Center at Government of Ukraine meetings promoting its addition to the list of facilities, that would be reconstructed with the help of the European Investment Bank funding.

At the same time, in one of the old buildings of the Center two reanimation facilities and new surgery rooms were in construction, and complete restoration of patients' wards was in action.

[42][43] Another Skoryi idea, rejected by the regional council, was the establishment of the compact moving medical offices, a sort of "laboratory on the wheels."

He and his team work on creating video guides to promote healthy lifestyle and encourage people to get early screening tests and get regular health check-ups.