Physicians often carry a story that informs their purpose, and for Eugene Lipov, M.D., a physician and researcher, that story began long before he ever stepped into an operating room. For him, the distance between his early memories and his work today remains wide, yet every part of that path seems to have pointed him toward the same destination: offering hope for those who may feel it’s out of reach.
Born in Ukraine, his childhood was surrounded by stories of displacement and the headstrong resilience his family carried with them. His father, a military aviator, returned from service forever changed. His mother had lived through the evacuations from Kyiv in 1941. Their experiences left a deep imprint on the household, and eventually, on him. “There was so much havoc around me,” he recalls. “I was trying to get a deeper understanding of it all, so I began reading about Sigmund Freud when I was just twelve.”