Afonina Tatiana Vladimirovna

Education:

• Lugansk State Medical University (General Medicine);
• Kharkov Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education (cardiology).

Scientific activity:

• PhD (medicine);
• author and co-author of 55 scientific articles.

Teaching and / or lecturing:

• from 2008 to 2014 worked as an assistant at the Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy and then as an assistant professor at Lugansk State Medical University;
• from 2015 to May 2017 taught therapy and emergencies (part-time) at the Chernigov Basic Medical College;
• provided regular presentations on various clinical problems for GPs at the health facilities.

Areas of professional development:

• advanced thematic training on Instrumental Methods in Cardiology at Kharkov Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education (2004), Urgent Problems of Neurology at Shupyk National Medical Academy of Post-Graduate Education (2017);
• regularly attends conferences and congresses, including with international participation. Last time participated in the work of the Congress of Cardiologists on September 20-22, 2017 in Kiev

Priority areas in clinical practice:

• Testing and treatment methods in cardiology
• ischemic heart disease;
• hypertension;
• vegetovascular dystonia;
• arrhythmia.
• “Recently we observe increase in cardiovascular morbidity and mortality rates, so cardiology is rapidly developing as to new approaches to diagnosis and treatment of patients with cardiovascular diseases.”
• “A doctor needs to be very careful, concise and plain in expressing views to a patient. Often emergency conditions require a thorough differential diagnosis.”
• “A good doctor has an individual approach to patient and is equipped with sufficient professional knowledge to be able to tailor it to patient’s individual condition.”

Tell us about your professional interests other than your specialization:

• Neurology;
• Children's cardiology.

Hobbies, favorite movies, books:

• “My favorite books are Jane Eyre and Captain’s Grant Children, and my favorite movies are Garde-Marine Command Forward! and Seventeen Moments of Spring."

Doctor's advice:

• "I advise my patients to pay more attention to prevention of cardiovascular pathology, be more responsible for risk factors and, if possible, to manage them."

Advantages of MM 'Dobrobut':

• “Comfortable working conditions have been created, the material and technical provision is well developed, and patients here are more cooperative.”