Public Defence of PhD Thesis in Health Care Was Held at TNMU

On February 16, 2024, TNMU PhD student Marianna Koval successfully defended her PhD thesis in the field of knowledge “Health Care” under the supervision of Professor Olena Venger. The dissertation is titled “Non-psychotic mental disorders in combatants with underlying post-Covid conditions (clinical-psychopathological phenomenology, early diagnosis, complex treatment)”. The topic is absolutely relevant for modern medicine and has significant scientific potential for providing effective personalized psychiatric care to this category of patients.

Marianna Koval presented the results of her work, established clinical and phenomenological features of non-psychotic mental disorders in combatants, taking into account the state of the affective, cognitive and behavioural spheres and the sphere of social functioning and social adaptation, which formed the basis of the development and approval of a comprehensive psychiatric care system.

Experienced specialists in the field of medicine took part in the meeting of the specialized scientific academic board which testifies to the importance and high evaluation of the conducted research.

Chairman of the Council: Honoured Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine, DSc in Medicine, Head of the Department of Physiology, Bioethics and Biosafety of I. Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University, Professor Stepan Vadziuk.

Reviewers: DSc in Medicine, Professor Maria Marushchak, Professor of the Department of Functional and Laboratory Diagnostics of I. Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University; PhD in Medicine, Associate Professor Liudmyla Mazur, Associate Professor of the Department of Higher Nursing Education, Patient Care and Clinical Immunology of I. Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University.

Official opponents: DSc in Medicine, Professor Natalia Pshuk, Professor of the Department of Medical Psychology and Psychiatry of M. Pyrohov Vinnytsia National Medical University; DSc in Medicine, Professor Liudmyla Rakhman, Head of the Department of Psychiatry, Psychology and Sexology of Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University.

The specialized academic board made a decision to award Marianna Koval the degree of doctor of philosophy in Health Care based on the public defence of the dissertation.

Marianna Koval expresses her deepest appreciation to the administration of TNMU for creating all the conditions for successful work on the dissertation.

Special words of thanks to the administration of the Ternopil Regional Clinical Psychoneurological Hospital headed by Volodymyr Shkrobot for the implementation of the research in the practical direction of the health care industry.

We congratulate Marianna Koval on obtaining this high scientific degree and wish her new achievements and success in medical practice and research!