Kukushkina Mariia Mykolaivna

Education:

• Bohomolets National Medical University

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

• member of the European Association of Dermato-Oncology (EADO);
• member of the International Dermoscopy Society (IDS);
• member of the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO);
• member of the European Musculo-Skeletal Oncology Society (EMSOS);
• member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).

Scientific activity:

• principal investigator at Dobrobut Clinical Trials;
• PhD in Medicine;
• since 2017 — Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Skin and Soft Tissue Tumors, National Cancer Institute;
• author of over 130 scientific publications and 6 utility model patents.

Areas of professional development:

• regular training and internships in Austria, Germany, and Israel, including: courses on sentinel lymph node biopsy and adjuvant therapy for melanoma (Kiel), Summer Academy of Practical Dermatology (Munich), seminars on malignant tumors of the skin, soft tissue, and bones (Salzburg), internship in dermato-oncology at the Medical University of Vienna, and workshops on immunotherapy for melanoma and lung cancer (Tel Aviv).

Priority areas in clinical practice:

• diagnosis and treatment of melanoma, basal cell carcinoma, and squamous cell carcinoma of the skin (dermato-oncology).