Daria Dmytrivna Chubata (Ukrainian: Чубата Дарія Дмитрівна; born July 27, 1940) is a Ukrainian doctor, writer, and community leader. She joined the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine in 2003 and served as a member of the Ternopil Oblast Council twice, from 1998 to 2002 and again from 2002 to 2006. In 1980, she received the award Distinguished Healthcare Worker of the USSR.
Biography
Daria Dmytrivna Chubata was born on July 27, 1940, in Ternopil, Ukraine.
She completed her education at Ternopil Medical Institute in 1965, which is now called Ternopil National Medical University. She worked as a district therapist in the village of Zalozhka and later served as the head of medical health centers named "Elektroarmatura" and "Sewing Factory" at the first city hospital. She also held the position of head of the youth's office from 1967 to 1975. From 1975, she worked as a Deputy Chief Doctor, and from 1996 to the present, she has been a rehabilitation specialist at the second city clinical hospital in Ternopil. She led training programs for doctors in the region who specialized in adolescent health from 1968 to 1995 and also worked as a deputy chief physician for examining temporary disability cases. Between 1977 and 1989, she served as a freelance Deputy Head of the Ternopil City Health Department. From 1986 to 1990, she taught therapy and health care organization at Ternopil Medical Institute.
In addition to her medical work, she held several leadership roles. She was the chair of the city association "Prosvita" in 1997, organized and chaired the regional Association of Women, participated in the international congress "Women on the Threshold of the 21st Century" in 1998, and was a member of the regional Coordinating Women's Council at the Ternopil Regional State Administration. She was also a co-founder of the Club of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Intelligentsia in Ternopil. She has been a member of the editorial board of TPP and collaborated with the editorial board of Rada magazine. She joined the Lemkivshchyna Society in 2000 and is a member of the Board of the Association of Alumni of Ternopil State Medical University named after I. Gorbachevsky.
Chubata is the author of books, articles in the press, and over 50 scientific and practical works. Her poems have been set to music by composers Mykola Bolotny, Ivan Vyspinsky, Ihor Vovchak, Vasyl Dunets, Yuriy Kitsyla, Zinovia Prysukhina, and others. Mykola Kryvetsky translated some of her poems into Esperanto. She has received the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th degree, in 2009.