Boyarchuk Oksana Romanivna

EDUCATION

Professor, 2015.

DSc, Medicine (Pediatrics), I.Horbachevsky Ternopil State Medical University, Ukraine, 2014.

DSc thesis: Clinical and Pathogenetic Aspects of the Rheumatic Disease Course in Children and Optimization of the Methods of its Treatment and Prevention.

PhD, Medicine (Pediatrics), Bogomolets National Medical Univesity, Ukraine, 1999.

PhD thesis: Efficiency of Electromagnetic Low-level Microwave Irradiation During Complex Treatment of Chronic Gastroduodenitis in Children.

MD (General Medicine), University Diploma with Honours, Ternopil State Medical Institute, Ukraine, 1994.


RESEARCH INTERESTS AND EXPERIENCE

  • improving of early diagnostic and treatment of primary immunodeficiency diseases;

  • rheumatic diseases (acute rheumatic fever, juvenile idiopathic arthritis, dermatomyositis, vasculitis, etc): clinical features, comorbidity, pathogenesis, treatment, prophylaxis;

  • implementation of kidney protection program in patients with spina bifida;

  • vitamin D and calcium, other vitamins and microelements in healthy children and in children with somatic pathology;

  • childhood infectious diseases;

  • influence of environmental factors on the development of allergies;

  • medical education and medical leadership.


PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY, FELLOWSHIPS AND MEMBERSHIPS

  • Ukrainian Pediatrics Society;

  • Ukrainian Academy of Pediatrics;

  • Board Member of Ukrainian Society of Pediatric Immunology;

  • European Society for Immunodeficiencies (ESID);

  • Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organisation (PRINTO);

  • European Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID);

  • Editorial Board Member of the medical scientific journal "Actual Problems of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology" (Ukraine);

  • Research Grant Jeffrey Modell Foundation (USA) “Implementation of the Model of Combining Physician Education and Public Awareness with the Infrastructure to Diagnose Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases in Children in Western Ukraine”, principle investigator (2016);

  • Erasmus+ Staff Mobility: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (2015); Wroclaw Medical University, Poland (2017);

  • Observeship in Wroclaw Medical University, Department of Pediatric Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Pediatric Allergy and Cardiology (2012);

  • AAF, Open Medical Institute Seminar, Salzburg, Austria: “General Pediatrics”(2009); “Medical Education”(2016); “Medical Leadership” ( 2017);

  • Child-Help International: Kidney Saving and Continence Management Program, Antwerp, Belgium (2018);

  • International Faculty Development Workshop Series, organized by MacEwan University (Canada), Lviv, Kyiv, Ukraine, Edmonton, Canada (2018);

  • Great Teachers Seminar in the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Canada (2018);

  • Practical training on spina bifida, Bratislava, Slovakia (2019);

  • Master Course and Congress of European Academy of Paediatrics, Porto, Portugal (2019).