Chikalova Irina Grigorijevna

Category: Higher

Education:

• Bukovina State Medical University;
• Bogomolets National medical university.

Scientific activity:

• Higher Senior Officer of the Science center of medical radiology held by the Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine.
• The author of five patents for medical inventions.

Areas of professional development:

• Dissertation about iodine insufficiency, topic “Structural changes of thyroid body of children who got affected by radioactive iodine at iodine insufficiency conditions.”
• Patents for the ways of treatment and diagnosis, medical equipment.
• Courses of post-graduate education, participation in Ukrainian endocrinologists` meetings and international conferences about endocrinology problems;.
• More than 50 scientific articles in international endocrinology publications, in the magazine “Fatty degeneration” and other special periodicals.
• Reading specialized magazines, using internet resources and exchanging experience with colleagues.

Priority areas in clinical practice:

• Diagnosis and treatment of the endocrinology system diseases.
• Evaluating ultrasonography results, needle biopsy and hormonal mark.
• Consultations relative to the necessity of operative measure
• Management of pregnant women who have endocrine pathology.
• The most common complaints: hypothyroidism, thyrotoxicosis, diabetes, hirsuties, adrenal insufficiency, obesity.
• "The doctor should have conscientious attitude to their profession."
• “Endocrinologist has to persuade the patients to change their attitude to themselves, and to explain that if they don`t do it, the treatment will be useless. The patient has to have a desire to be healthy, then everything will be the way it has to be.”
• “The specialty of working with foreigners is to pick up the necessary nutrition for them, which will accompany the treatment and at the same time it will be usual and simple for them. For instance, diabetes patients in African or Mexican areas differ from our patients by food variety.”

Hobbies, favorite movies, books:

• “I love travelling, reading and doing sports”.

Doctor's advice:

• “Men at the age of 33 and women at the age of 40 need to pay the most accurate attention to their health. If the person increased in weight, if the arterial pressure increases – in this case it is necessary to see the endocrinologist for the examination”.