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Faculty of TSMU Department of Children’s Diseases and Pediatric Surgery took part in the events of the World PI Week

Every year on April 22-29, the World PI Week is observed to bring together patients, parents, doctors, junior medical staff, politicians and health organizers in promoting awareness of primary immunodeficiency diseases. This was the fourth year Ukraine joined events of the Week. On April 26-27, 2018 an international research symposium Diagnosis and Treatment of Hematologic Pathology in Children with Primary Immunodeficiencies took place in Kyiv. This was 14th forum within the framework of the Central-Eastern European Scientific-Educational Program J-Project, aimed at improving medical support of Continue reading →

Ternopil State Medical University scholars took part in seminar on kidney health of children with spina bifida

Head of TSMU Department of Children’s Diseases and Pediatric Surgery, Professor Oksana Boyarchuk and assistant professor Kateryna Hlushko took part in an informational day on kidney health and treatment of children with spina bifida and hydrocephalus. Our researchers attended the event, which took place April 21, 2018 in Antwerp, Belgium, at the invitation of director of the international organization Child-Help International Pierre Mertens and with assistance of chairman of the NGO Siaivo Dukha (Shining Spirit) Mariana Koshmaniuk. The information day was held under the aegis Continue reading →

TSMU Department of Children’s Diseases organized a Day of Primary Immunodeficiency event

Members of the NGO Rare Immune Diseases and professors of TSMU Department of Children’s Diseases and Pediatric Surgery organized a meeting of Ternopil region patients with primary immunodeficiencies (PID) and their parents. The event was dedicated to the Day of Primary Immunodeficiency, which is observed on 14 March. Participating in the meeting were also doctors and student volunteers. The event took place in the art gallery Bunkermuz. Coordinator of the event, head of the national patient NGO Rare Immune Diseases Halyna Pauk opened the meeting. Continue reading →

Ternopil State Medical University scientist participated in the 2017 meeting of the European Society for Immunodeficiencies

Head of TSMU Department of Children’s Diseases and Pediatric Surgery Professor Oksana Boyarchuk took part in the 2017 meeting of the European Society for Immunodeficiencies (ESID). The conference, which had the theme of Autoimmunity & Inflammation in PID; Beyond the Paradox took place on September 11-14, 2017 in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Dr. Boyarchuk’s participation in the conference was made possible through funding from the Jeffrey Modell Foundation. In total, over 1,600 participants from more than 50 countries attended the conference. Besides Dr. Boyarchuk, Ukrainian delegation at the Continue reading →

TSMU staff delivered yet another humanitarian shipment form Canada to military hospitals

Former TSMU employees Bohdan Boichuk and Nadiia Arkhipova continue providing humanitarian medical assistance to Ukrainian hospitals. Today they live and work in Canada, but always keep in their thoughts those in need in their homeland. The most recent shipment of humanitarian aid they have sent contained medical supplies and was designated to the Lviv Military Hospital to cover the needs of its surgical and rehabilitation departments, as well as to the military unit A4615 hospital in Dnipro. Associate Professors of the Department of Children’s Diseases Continue reading →

A team of Ternopil State Medical University doctors brought outpatient care to children in rural area

A team of pediatric doctors from Ternopil State Medical University have visited little patients in the village Uvysla. Assistant professors of pediatric diseases and pediatric surgery Tamara Vorontsova (team leader), Liubov Volianska, Vira Synytska, Pavlo Hoshchynskyi, assistant professor of otorhinolaryngology, ophthalmology and neurosurgery Kateryna Aleksevych and neurologist Volodymyr Musienko examined the children and consulted their parents. Nearly 400 boys and girls live in Uvysla, including about 300 children under the age of 14. The nearest medical clinic is located in the district capital, 20 kilometers Continue reading →

Ternopil State Medical University professor gave lectures to students of Wroclaw Medical University

Head of Ternopil State Medical University department of childhood diseases and pediatric surgery professor Oksana Boyarchuk on 19-25 March 2017 visited Wroclaw Medical University as a part of academic exchange program ERASMUS + Staff Mobility for Teaching. The visit took place at the Department and Hospital of Clinical Immunology and Pediatrics and in Hospital Pediatrics and Infectious diseases. These units are located in the Jerzego Gromkowskiego Provincial Hospital, which is one of the most modern hospitals in Poland’s Lower Silesia. Children’s department occupies new building, Continue reading →

Ternopil State Medical University supported launching the Diabetes School

On February 23, 2017 Children’ Diabetes School Opened in Ternopil Regional Children’s Hospital. This is a joint project of the hospital and Ternopil State Medical University. The opening ceremony was attended by the head of Ternopil State Regional Administration Stepan Barna, head of Health Department of the Administration Volodymyr Bohaychuk, and TSMU vice-rector for academic and clinical work, Professor Stepan Zaporozhan.   “Today the idea of creating such schools is being disseminated within entire Ukraine. It has originated in Kharkiv, where guidelines for these institutions Continue reading →

Ternopil State Medical University researchers won a grant for a project on primary immune deficiencies

Research team of led by head of the Department of Children’s Diseases and Pediatric Surgery, Professor Oksana Boyarchuk recently won a grant for the project “Implementation of the mixed model of training physicians and raising public awareness to improve rate of primary immune deficiency diagnoses in children of Ternopil region.” As  described by Dr. Boyarchuk, the idea of this project emerged a year ago, when she trained in Poland and Greece. “I realized that in Ukraine the problem of primary immune deficiencies in children receives Continue reading →