Dubas Vitalii Vasylovych

Work experience: 7 years

Education:

• Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University;
• Internship in Internal Medicine at Kyiv City Hospitals No6 and No7, Malyn Central District Hospital (Zhytomyr Oblast);
• Shupyk National University of Health, specialization “Rheumatology”

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

• regular courses on the platform of the European Anti-Rheumatic League;
• regular participation in rheumatology conferences and schools.

Scientific activity:

• postgraduate student in Rheumatology at the Academician M.D. Strazhesko Institute of Cardiology, Clinical and Regenerative Medicine of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, dissertation on optimization of diagnosis and treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus;
• regularly speaks at rheumatology conferences, presenting the results of his dissertation research and cases from clinical practice;
• author of 8 scientific articles, including those in the Web of Science.

Areas of professional development:

• treatment according to the protocols of the European Anti-Rheumatic League (EULAR) and the American College of Rheumatology (ACR).

Priority areas in clinical practice:

• initial examination and examination of patients with pain in joints, muscles and back, as well as with prolonged fever of uncertain origin;
• diagnosis and treatment of joint diseases, such as osteoarthritis (osteoarthritis), rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, reactive arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis (Bechterev's disease), gout, rheumatic polymyalgia, etc;
• Prevention, diagnosis and treatment of systemic osteoporosis to ensure bone health of patients;
• diagnostics and treatment of systemic connective tissue diseases, such as systemic lupus erythematosus (including antiphospholipid syndrome), systemic scleroderma, dermato-/polymyositis, dry Sjögren's syndrome, erythema nodosum, etc;
• diagnosis and treatment of systemic vasculitis, including granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener's), nonspecific aortoarteritis (Takayasu), giant cell arteritis, Behcet's disease, leukocytoclastic (hypersensitive vasculitis), Churg-Strauss syndrome and other similar diseases;
• differential diagnosis of rheumatologic and related pathologies in order to accurately establish the diagnosis and provide appropriate treatment.

Tell us about your professional interests other than your specialization:

• diagnostics of rare (orphan) diseases;
• basic biomedical sciences and their applied significance.

Hobbies, favorite movies, books:

• “My hobbies are football, volleyball, participation in English conversation clubs and studying history. As for books, I prefer popular science and historical works.”

Doctor's advice:

• “Almost all joint diseases can be treated effectively, so a timely visit to a doctor will help maintain your health and high quality of life.”