Kateryna Valikhnovska, MD, is a surgical oncologist with a PhD in Medicine (2020). Together with a team of surgical oncologists, she operates on colon, sigmoid colon and rectal cancer, colorectal liver metastases and liver tumours, small bowel cancer and neuroendocrine tumours, uterine and ovarian cancer, as well as stomach and pancreatic cancer. She also performs radiofrequency ablation and laparoscopic cancer surgery. Over 13 years of experience in the specialty and 9,500 hours in the operating room. Appointments in Kyiv and Ivano-Frankivsk by prior arrangement.
Key facts
- Since October 2022 — surgical oncologist at the National Cancer Institute.
- PhD in Medicine: defended her dissertation in June 2020.
- Surgeon of the first qualification category; specialist certificates in “Oncosurgery” and “Transplantology”.
- 9,500 hours in the operating room, over 13 years of experience in the specialty.
- Order “Scientist of the Year 2020” from the Ukrainian Federation of Scientists.
- Member of the Ukrainian Union of Oncology Surgeons (USSO) and the European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO).
- Appointments in Kyiv and Ivano-Frankivsk (10 Hutsulska St.) by prior arrangement.
VALIKHNOVSKA Kateryna Hennadiivna
Surgical oncologist
Scientific Degree
Doctor of Philosophy in Medicine (PhD)
Diplomas and licenses
- Surgeon of the first qualification category
- Certificate of Specialist in “Oncosurgery”
- Certificate of Specialist in “Transplantology”
- In 2014 she graduated from the Bogomolets National Medical University in Kyiv. She received a diploma with honors in ``Medical Affairs``.
- From 2014 to 2017 she studied at the National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education named after PL Shupyk in an internship at the Department of Surgery and Transplantology, received a degree in ``Surgeon``.
- From September 2017 to November 2020 she studied at the graduate school of the National University of Health of Ukraine named after PL Shupyk.
- In June 2020, she defended her dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy on ``Experimental substantiation of prognosis, prophylaxis and treatment of pancreatic fistulae following pancreas resections`` in the field of knowledge 22 Healthcare, specialty 222 Medicine (specialization ``Surgery``).
- From December 2019 to September 2021, she worked as an assistant of Surgery and Transplantology of the Shupyk National University of Public Health of Ukraine.
- In November 2020, she was awarded the Order of the Scientist of the Year 2020.
- From December 2021 to September 2022, she worked as an associate professor of the Department of Surgery and Transplantology of the PL Shupyk National University of Health Sciences of Ukraine on the basis of the National Institute of Surgery and Transplantology named after OO Shalimov.
- From October 2022 to the present, she works as a surgical oncologist.
Dissertation topic
Experimental substantiation of prognosis, prophylaxis and treatment of pancreatic fistulae following pancreas resections
June 2020
Diplomas
The main directions of scientific and practical research
- primary and metastatic liver tumors;
- pancreatic cancer; stomach cancer;
- cancer of the small and large intestine;
- rectal cancer;
- retroperitoneal sarcomas and gastrointestinal stromal tumors;
- neuroendocrine tumors, laparoscopic surgery, transplantation, treatment of anterior abdominal wall hernias.
Membership in organizations
- Ukrainian Union of Oncology Surgeons (USSO);
- European Association of Surgical Oncology (ESSO);
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