Infectious Disease Specialist, Clinical Immunologist, Hepatologist

• Luhansk State Medical University, MD degree (with honors)
• PhD thesis defended in 1991, Doctoral dissertation in 2006
• Career path from assistant to professor and department head
• Head of the Regional Hepatology Center for 15 years
• Currently Professor at the Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacy, Bogomolets National Medical University

Highest category physician with over 35 years of clinical experience in infectious diseases and hepatology.

Author of more than 290 scientific publications in hepatology, including:

• 12 inventions and patents
• 3 national textbooks
• 6 scientific monographs

• Participated in internships and international conferences in more than 20 countries, including the USA, Germany, Austria, France, Sweden, and Hong Kong.
• Member of the Ukrainian Association of Infectious Disease Specialists and Clinical Immunologists.
• Member of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL).

• Treatment of hepatitis B and C, and chronic hepatitis of unknown etiology.
• Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (fatty liver disease) in patients with diabetes mellitus.
• Alcohol-related liver disease.
• Diagnosis and treatment of herpesvirus and TORCH infections, including Epstein–Barr virus, cytomegalovirus, and Herpes simplex types 1, 2, and 6, as well as chlamydia infections.
• Diagnosis and management of secondary immunodeficiency states of unknown origin.

Clinical work with patients presenting with:

• “diagnosis not established” cases
• toxic and autoimmune hepatitis
• liver cirrhosis
• hemochromatosis
• Lyme disease (borreliosis)
• parasitic infections
• post-COVID syndrome