Vira A. Kolesnichenko

Doctor of Medicine, Full Professor

Research interests: surgical gastroenterology, general surgery, miniinvasive surgery

Post address: Igora Muratova str., 9, Kharkiv, Ukraine, 61052

E-mail: vira.a.kolesnichenko@karazin.ua

Phone number: +38 (057) 372-19-08

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Disciplines: General surgery

Additional information: In 1982, she graduated with honors from the Kharkiv Medical Institute, majoring in "Medical Business". In 1982-1983, at the Sytenko Kharkiv Research Institute of Orthopedics and Traumatology was trained in an internship in the specialty "Traumatology and Orthopedics". From 1982 to 2018, she worked at the Sytenko Kharkiv Research Institute of Orthopedics and Traumatology (since 2001 - the Sytenk Institute of Spine and Joint Pathology National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine): in 1982 - 2001 a traumatologist-orthopedic doctor in the department of traumatology; in 2001 - 2018 - head of the department of scientific and medical information with the patent and licensing group. In 1994, she defended her candidate's thesis on the topic: "Clinical and radiological manifestations and basic principles of treatment of patients with lumbar Scheuermann’s disease" In 2001, she defended her doctoral dissertation on the topic: «Scheuermann’s disease. Early diagnosis and prognosis of the course of the disease". Since December 2018, he has been working at Karazin Kharkiv National University as a professor of the Department of Surgical Diseases, Topographic Anatomy and Operative Surgery (2018 - 2022) and as a professor of the Department of Surgical Diseases (from 2022 to the present). She received the academic title of senior researcher in 2005. Has 200 publications, 2 patents of Ukraine.

She is a member of the Ukrainian Association of Orthopedics and Traumatology, the Ukrainian Association of Doctors of Sports Medicine and Physical Therapy. Orthopedist-traumatologist of the highest qualification category. 35 years of practical work experience as an orthopedist-traumatologist. He has doctor's certificates in the specialties of sports medicine and physical therapy, as well as folk and non-traditional medicine. In 2010-2011 was a judge at the III and IV open championships of Ukraine in SPA-massage and a lecturer at Forums of massage technologies, which were held as part of the championship of Ukraine in SPA-massage. From 2005 to 2020, he was a full-time consultant orthopedic-traumatologist of the Kharkiv Regional Bureau of Forensic Medical Examination. Conducts active pedagogical activities, transferring his clinical and practical experience and knowledge to students of the medical faculty, gives lectures, conducts practical and seminar classes in orthopedics and traumatology.

The main areas of scientific and practical activity are the rehabilitation of patients with the spine and joints diseases by methods of kinesiotherapy in conservative and operative treatment; biomechanics of the musculoskeletal system, experimental and mathematical modeling of degenerative changes in the spine and joints and their surgical correction.

She developed and implemented in practical medicine computational diagnostic tables for the early stages of Scheuermann’s disease and prognostic tables for determining the course of the disease. Created a conceptual model of the development of muscle imbalance in patients with lumbar spine degenerative diseases. Developed physical rehabilitation programs for patients with lumbar spine degenerative diseases: with various options for spinal-pelvic balance in the case of conservative treatment; in the perioperative period after instrumental lumbar fusion. She is engaged in the development of new physical rehabilitation programs for patients with lumbar spine degenerative diseases in the perioperative period after endoscopic discectomy, for patients with degenerative diseases of the spine and joints with the presence of antalgic myofixation of the affected segment of the musculoskeletal system.