Horobets Inna Mykhailivna

Work experience: 23 years

Category: Higher

Education:

• Lugansk State Medical University;
• Speciality in cardiology and functional diagnosis on the basis of Kharkiv Medical Academy of Post-graduate Education.

Membership in associations, societies; attending conferences, thematic improvement courses:

• Thematic advanced training on “Selected issues of electropunctural diagnostics and homeopathy”;
• Thematic advanced training on “Topical issues of clinical arrhythmology”.

Areas of professional development:

• functional diagnostic specialist;
• experience in medicine of emergency, in-patient hospital, cardiology center;
• member of Ukrainian Association of Arrhythmologists and Ukrainian Association of Cardiologists;
• participant of national and international congresses on cardiology.
• participant of international clinical trials of medicines
• thematic lectures for colleagues
• active participant of various conferences, held at Heart Center, M.D. Strazhesko Institute of Cardiology, Shalimov National Institute of Surgery and Transplantation.

Priority areas in clinical practice:

• cardiology: prevention of cardiovascular disease, early diagnosis of cardiac angina, management of patients with coronary artery disease, hypertensive disease, heart rhythm disturbance heart, treatment of patients suffering from cardialgia, cardiophyshoneurosis and cardiomyopathy;
• functional diagnostics: bicycle ergometry, electrocardiography and medicamental tests, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, Holter ECG monitoring, echocardiography, the study of respiratory function.
• The most common complaints: rhythm disturbance, increase of pressure, cardiac angina.
• ‘A good doctor is an understanding one, you can come to him, entrust your problems and receive appropriate treatment.’
• ‘Usually, people turn to a private clinic to find out all medical aspects of their condition. Our goal is to narrow everything, including diet, lifestyle, physical activities. After all, to read something in a magazine or see in a TV program is one thing, but to hear it from a specialist is quite another – and that is much more valuable.’
• ‘Patients with cardiac diseases tend to be very emotional, therefore they need psychological and emotional comfort in relation with the doctor. Doctor in his turn must be psychologist. He must convince a patient to take necessary medications, tell how much time and in what quantity they need to take it. For sometimes, treatment can last for years and include taking of several medications simultaneously. Also cardiologist must monitor a patient, put him on the track of change in lifestyle and prevention of heart diseases, such as ischemic heart disease, hypertrophy, cardiomyopathy, vegetative vascular dystonia, myocarditis, pericarditis.’

Tell us about your professional interests other than your specialization:

• arrhythmology;
• X-ray endovascular surgery.

Hobbies, favorite movies, books:

• ‘My hobby is cultivation of grapes. At least one hour a day I devote to reading and studying of medical literature. If there is time, then I can read some light book like a novel or a detective. I can spend time watching a good movie – I was really impressed with “Point Break” and the last part of James Bond’s adventures.’

Doctor's advice:

• ‘Do a primary prevention of cardiovascular diseases. Remember, preventive medicine is much better than recovery after myocardial infarction or cerebrovascular accidents.’

Advantages of MM 'Dobrobut':

• ‘For a doctor an advantage is the high concentration of specialists of the highest and the first categories with a great experience. You have the opportunity to acquire knowledge from these colleagues. Of course, for patients a plus is that they on the same day without standing in long lines can undergo tests, be examined by several doctors and immediately get a diagnosis.’