The School of Medicine of
V.N. Karazin
Kharkiv National University
The School provides training in Medical Practice licensing its graduates as
doctors.
The School of Medical Sciences was one of the first four schools of the newly
founded University. The development of the School comprises two periods. The first
period continued up to 1920, the second started in March 1993, when the School of
Fundamental Medicine was again opened at the University.
The School’s faculty includes 22 doctors of sciences, full professors, 68
candidates of sciences, associate professors and instructors.
Over 1080 students including 700 from other countries studies here. Recently,
our multinational faculty was replenished by 19 students from India.
Training is provided at the facilities of the University Schools and Kharkiv
research and medical institutions.
The School focuses its research on the modern problems of theoretical and
clinical medicine. Since 1995, the School has published the School of Fundamental
Medicine Journal in English, in 2002 reorganized into the Kharkiv University
Bulletin: Medicine.
The School is organized into 8 Departments:
 Department of General and Clinical Pathology. Head of the Department: Olena
S. Protsenko, PhD (Medicine), Associate Professor. Tel: 707-56-25. Areas of
research: molecular pathology of inflammatory and oncological diseases; and
design and implementation of new methodologies in teaching general
pathology.
 Department of General and Clinical Immunology and Allergology. Head of the
Department: Mykola M. Popov, PhD (Medicine), Full Professor. Tel: 707-5450. Areas of research: general, clinical and inter-disciplinary aspects of
immunology and allergology; epidemiology of chronic diseases; and
development of efficient technologies for controlling the quality of the
patient’s health and life.
 Department of Internal Medicine. Head of the Department: Mykola I.
Yabluchanskyi, PhD (Medicine), Full Professor. Areas of research:
philosophical problems of clinical medicine; best management of patients;
neurocardiology; biomechanics of the blood-circulation system; clinical
functional diagnosing, and forensic medicine.
 Department of Surgical Diseases. Head of the Department: Yevhen D.
Khvorostov, doctor of Medicine, Full professor. Tel: 372-02-19. Areas of
research: surgical gastroenterology and laparoscopic surgery.
 Department of Pediatrics. Head of the Department: Mykola M. Korenyev, PhD
(Medicine), Full Professor. Tel: 62-50-19. Areas of research: health care for
children and young people whose parents were affected by ionizing radiation
during the Chernobyl accident.
 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Head of the Department: Olga V.
Gryshchenko, PhD (Medicine), Full Professor. Tel: 62-50-19. Areas of
research: reproductive health problems and modern methods of contraception.
 Department of General practice - Family medicine. Head of the Department:
Eugenej Ya. Nikolenko, PhD (Medicine), Full Professor. Tel.: 707-56-86, 70753-78. Areas of research: methodology of clinic-population investigations,
groups of risk for detection of high-level risk contingent, detection and
modification of pathological changes of persons with the high level of risk of
health and correction of risk factors.
 Department of hygiene and social medicine. Head of the Department: Georgii
M. Danylenko, PhD (Medicine), Full Professor. Tel.: 707-56-86, 707-53-78.
Areas of research: development and studying automatic control system of heart
rate variability, psychohygienic measures to maintain student’s health in
vocational-technical schools.
Office of the Dean
Dean of the School: Viktor M. Savchenko, PhD (Medicine), Full Professor.
Deputy Dean for Educational work: Olha O. Vlasenko, PhD (Medicine),
Associate Professor.
Deputy Dean for Medical Work: Oleksiy I. Tsivenko, PhD (Medicine),
Associate Professor.
Deputy Dean for Research Work: Serhiy O. Sherstuk, PhD (Medicine),
Associate Professor.
Deaputy Dean for International Students: Tetyana V. Sevastyanova, PhD
(Medicine), Associate Professor.
Deputy Dean for General and Economic Issues: Iryna M. Tyagun.
Deputy Dean for Student Counseling: Natalya P. Vlasova.
Dean's office Chief Inspector Svetlana A. Gurieva
Contact Information
Address:
V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
School of Medicine
6 Maydan Svobody
Kharkiv, 61022
Phone: +38(057) 707-54-50,
E-mail: ffm@univer.kharkov.ua
http://md.univer.kharkov.ua