Kushnerenko Olesia Leonidivna

Category: Higher

Education:

• 1987-1993: study at the O.O. Bogomolets National Medical University, general medicine;
• 1993-1997: two-year internship in neurology at the Crimean Medical Institute of Postgraduate Education at the Kherson Regional Hospital;
• 1997: specialization in functional diagnostics (neurophysiology);
• 2004-2006: internship in neurosurgery at the Shupik Kyiv Medical Academy of Post-Graduate Education, in the Scientific and Practical Center for Endovascular Neuro-X-ray Surgery;
• 2007: specialization in radiology;
• 2005, 2008: on-job internship in vascular surgery at the Shalimov Research Institute of Surgery and Transplantology;
• 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019 : trainings on the use of botulinum toxin A in neurological practice (including abroad - Poland, Slovenia, Denmark)

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

• neurologist of the higher category, neurosurgeon of the first category;
• member of the NGO "Ukrainian Stroke Association";
• member of the NGO "Ukrainian Association of Endovascular Neuro-X-ray Surgery";
• stroke specialist, thrombolysis specialist;
• expert in treatment of spastic syndromes in patients after stroke and other CNS diseases;
• participation in the international conferences of the European Stroke Association (2015, 2018);
• trainings on the use of botulinum toxin A in neurological practice (2014, 2015, 2016, 2019, including abroad Poland, Slovenia, Denmark).

Teaching and / or lecturing:

• trainer of the NEXT LEVEL school for neurologists and physical rehabilitation specialists in the treatment of spasticity of the upper and lower extremities in patients after a stroke and other CNS diseases;
• participant and speaker at the conferences, symposia and training seminars.

Areas of professional development:

• 1997-1999: neurologist, a doctor of functional diagnostics (neurophysiology) at the Kherson Regional Medical Consultation and Diagnostic Center;
• 1999-2003: doctor of functional diagnosis in the Kharkiv Territorial Medical Association in Kyiv;
• 2003-2007: neurologist, neurosurgeon at the Scientific and Practical Center for Endovascular Neurorentgenosurgery, Kyiv;
• 2007-2012: neurologist and neurosurgeon of the Vascular Neurology Department of the Kyiv Regional Clinical Hospital No. 1;
• 2009-2020: neurologist of the, clinical consulting department at the Universal Clinic Oberig in Kyiv, neurologist of the Stroke Center, doctor of endovascular neurosurgeon;
• 2020 - until now: Dobrobut Clinic, head of the neurological hospital, neurologist, stroke specialist.

Priority areas in clinical practice:

• vascular neurology: diagnosis and treatment of stroke, primary and secondary prevention of stroke;
• spastic syndromes of the upper and lower extremities in patients after stroke, TBI, with dystonia, parkinsonism, administration of botulinum toxin;
• pain syndromes: headache, chronic pain syndromes in the back and lower back, acute pain in the back and lower back;
• autonomic dysfunction;
• polyneuropathy;
• epilepsy.