Harbuzniak Iryna Mykolaivna

Candidate of Medical Sciences, highest-category physician

Senior Research Fellow of the Department of Spine and Joint Pathology in Childhood at the Sytenko Institute of Spine and Joint Pathology of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine.

Candidate of Medical Sciences, highest-category pediatric orthopedic traumatologist, highest-category adult orthopedic traumatologist, hand surgeon.

Author of 45 scientific papers.

Education:

• 2001 — graduated from Odesa State Medical University with a degree in General Medicine;
• 2001-2003 — internship at the Illichivsk Basin Hospital for Water Transport;
• 2004-2005 — clinical residency at the State Institution “Sytenko Institute of Spine and Joint Pathology of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine,” specializing in Pediatric Orthopedics and Traumatology.

Professional experience:

• 2005-2012 — orthopedic traumatologist at the Pediatric Orthopedics Clinic, Research Fellow of the Department of Spine and Joint Pathology in Childhood at the State Institution “Sytenko Institute of Spine and Joint Pathology of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine”;
• 2012-2015 — Head of the Pediatric Orthopedics Department at the State Institution “Sytenko Institute of Spine and Joint Pathology of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine”;
• 2015 — defended her Candidate of Medical Sciences dissertation on “The effectiveness of combined surgical treatment of children with congenital clubhand combined with hand anomalies.”

The main focus of I.N. Harbuzniak’s research and clinical work is the treatment of children and adults with:

• congenital and acquired upper limb disorders;
• upper limb deformities caused by neurological disorders (cerebral palsy, brachial plexitis, post-stroke spastic deformities, post-traumatic radial nerve palsy);
• post-burn contractures of the joints of the upper and lower limbs;
• reconstructive plastic surgery and microsurgery in traumatology.

Professional development and training:

• 2006 — participated in the “Bone and joint surgery” seminar (Salzburg, Austria);
• 2009 — participated in the “Emergency surgery” seminar (Salzburg, Austria);
• 2012 — participated in the “Obstetrical brachial plexus injury” seminar (Dallas, USA);
• 2012 — completed a training placement in the orthopedic department of the University Hospital in Tübingen, Germany;
• 2013 — participated in the Instructional Course of Congenital Hand Malformation (Manchester, England, British Society for Surgery of the Hand);
• 2013 — completed a specialist training placement at the plastic surgery, hand surgery and microsurgery clinic of Ganga Hospital (Coimbatore, India);
• 2013 — completed a laboratory course in microsurgery (Coimbatore, India);
• 2014 — participated in the 16th International Instructional Course of Perforator Flaps Cadaver Workshop (Ningbo, China);
• 2015 — participated in the AO Trauma basic course (Kyiv).

Practice location: Sytenko Institute of Spine and Joint Pathology of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine.