Volokha Alla Petrivna

Work experience: 40 years

Category: Higher

Education:

• Bogomolets National Medical University

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

• member of the European Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID);
• member of the European Society of Primary Immunodeficiencies (ESID);
• member of the Pediatric European Association for the Treatment of HIV in Children (PENTA-ID);
• Vice President of the Ukrainian Association of Pediatric Immunology.

Scientific activity:

• doctor of Medical Sciences;
• professor;
• since 2003: Associate Professor of the Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Pediatric Immunology of the Shupyk National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education;
• since 2016: Head of the Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Pediatric Immunology of the Shupyk National Medical Academy.

Areas of professional development:

• participated in studies on the treatment of HIV infection in children and HIV/HCV co-infection, as well as in a study on vaccination of children with HIV infection and primary immunodeficiencies;
• completed internships in pediatric infectious diseases and pediatric immunology at the Universities of Alberta (Canada), Tel Aviv (Israel) and Graz (Austria).

Priority areas in clinical practice:

• diagnosis and treatment of children who are often ill;
• diagnosis and treatment of congenital and acquired immunodeficiencies;
• diagnostics and treatment of TORCH infections, herpes infections and infections associated with immunodeficiency;
• counseling on immunoprophylaxis of infectious diseases and vaccination of children with chronic diseases.

Hobbies, favorite movies, books:

• "My hobbies are going to the theater and traveling."