Department of Pediatrics № 1
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
The responsible person is Ph.D., Assoc. Sparrow Anastasia Oleksandrivna. Contact phone: 0636237337. E-mail: anastasia14031981@gmail.com
International cooperation of the Department of Pediatrics is represented by the following directions: internships of department employees in European medical institutions, attendance at international congresses, conferences and symposia, participation of foreign specialists in events organized by the department, as well as cooperation of the department with international medical institutions and organizations.
1. Internship of department employees in European medical institutions
Employees of the department undergo internships in leading medical institutions in Europe. Yes, the head of the department, Prof. Berezenko V.S. interned at King’s College Hospital in London, where she gained experience in the diagnosis and treatment of hepatobiliary pathology in children in Great Britain. Assistant professor of the department Kozynkevich H.E. interned at the “Child Health Center” in Warsaw. The clinic is one of the most famous in the country and provides high-quality multidisciplinary care to children from different regions of Poland. From 2022, Kozynkevich H.E. works as a doctor in this clinic.
In 2024, Assistant Department Bezpala Anna successfully completed an internship in pediatric gastroenterology and hepatology at Children’s Wisconsin Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, under the guidance of Grzegorz Telega, professor of pediatrics at the Medical College of Wisconsin, medical director of the Department of Pediatric Liver Diseases and Liver Transplantation. Bezpala A.V. acquired knowledge of managing patients with neonatal acute liver failure, decompensated liver cirrhosis, lymphoproliferative disease after transplantation, as well as the peculiarities of drug treatment of autoimmune hepatitis, transplantation of fecal microbiota for the treatment of recurrent C. difficile infection, etc. The employees of the department started implementing the gained experience in medical work.
2. Employees of the department actively attend foreign scientific events. Thus, in May 2023, a delegation of department employees consisting of A.O. Gorobets, A.V. Bezpaloi and Krechko J.V. took part in the three-day conference “ESPGHAN Summer School”, which was organized by ESPGHAN and the Department of Pediatrics of the Lviv National Medical University.
The delegation presented two reports with an overview of clinical cases of patients who were treated at the Children’s Hepatology Center of the “Institute of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology”. Employees of the department had a great opportunity to communicate and exchange experience with the most famous speakers of ESPGHAN, and also participated in a master class of percutaneous gastrostomy with gastrostomy staging, conducted by ESPGHAN Vice-President Patrick Bonthems.
Head of the department prof. Berezenko V.S. and assistant Bezpal Anna attended the “55th ESPGHAN Annual Congress” held in Vienna in 2023. Two poster presentations were presented by the Department and Center of Pediatric Hepatology of the Institute of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Окрім того, Безпалою Анною було відвідано такі заходи, як конгрес з ультразвукової медицини “34th Congress of European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology EUROSON 2023” і “Precongress School Musculosceletal Ultrasound”, що відбулися у Ризі, літню гастрошколу “UEG Summer School”, яка проводилася у Празі, конгрес із захворювань печінки “EASL 2023”, що відбувся у Відні, та школу з мікробіому “EASL Basic Science School: Microbiome in chronic liver disease” у Лондоні .
Nataliya Balatska, professor of the department, gave an oral presentation on the problem of rickets at the International Conference “Vitamin D – minimum, maximum, optimum”, organized in Warsaw in September 2023.
3. Annually, the department organizes a scientific and practical conference with international participation “Actual issues of pediatric hepatology”. The event is supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Kyiv and the Polish Medical Society in Ukraine named after A.S. Svintsitskyi. In 2023, the event took place in May and was dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine. Traditionally, the conference was opened with a welcome speech by Consul Jacek Hotzlovsky of the Consular Department and Polonia of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Kyiv. Honorary speakers of the event were Georgina Mieli-Vergani, a professor at the King’s College Hospital in London, Henrik Arnel, a professor at the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, and Piotr Sokha, a professor at the Children’s Health Center Memorial Institute in Warsaw. Other speakers participating in the annual congress on pediatric hepatology include Professor Irena Jankovska (Memorial Institute “Child Health Center”, Warsaw), Professor Anil Dhawan (King’s college hospital, Great Britain), Professor Janusz Benedikt Ksiozyk (Clinic of pediatrics, nutrition and metabolic diseases of the Memorial Institute “Child Health Center” in Warsaw).
4. In 2023, cooperation with the European network of reference centers for rare liver diseases ERN Rare-Liver was started. ERN Rare-Liver is a pan-European network of centers of excellence in the clinical treatment of rare liver diseases in adults and children. The aim of the network is to improve standards of clinical knowledge and care for patients with rare liver diseases across Europe. Working closely with clinical centers, physicians and patient organizations, the network: disseminates best clinical practice recommendations; uses innovative IT solutions to provide clinicians with access to expert knowledge from across Europe; updates clinical guidelines to ensure standardization of medical care; and provides patients with relevant and high-quality information.
5. Employees of the department are members of such specialized medical associations as “United European Gastroenterology”, “European Association for the Study of the Liver”, “The International Society for Clinical Densitometry”.
