Khmyzov Serhii Oleksandrovych

Doctor of Medical Sciences, highest-category physician

Highest-category pediatric orthopedic traumatologist, surgeon.

Head of the Department of Spine and Joint Pathology in Children at the State Institution “Institute of Spine and Joint Pathology named after Prof. M.I. Sytenko of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine”.

Doctor of Medical Sciences, professor.

Author of more than 90 scientific papers and 15 inventions protected by authors’ certificates and patents.

Education:

• 1982 — graduated from Odesa Medical Institute;
• 1986 — enrolled in clinical residency at the Kharkiv Research Institute of Orthopedics and Traumatology named after Prof. M.I. Sytenko;
• 1992 — completed full-time postgraduate studies.

Professional activity:

• 1982-1986 — resident physician in the trauma department of the emergency hospital in Mykolaiv.
• 1992 — junior researcher in the pediatric orthopedics department at the Institute of Orthopedics and Traumatology named after Prof. M.I. Sytenko;
• 1992 — defended his Candidate of Sciences dissertation on “Lengthening and correction of femoral deformities in children and adolescents using compression-distraction devices based on rods”;
• 1993 — appointed by competitive selection to the position of senior researcher at the Institute;
• 1996 — awarded the title of senior researcher at the Institute;
• 2004 — defended his Doctor of Sciences dissertation on “Controlled osteosynthesis using rod systems in pediatric traumatology and orthopedics”.
• Since 2006 to the present — heads the Department of Spine and Joint Pathology in Children.

The main areas of scientific and practical activity are congenital limb deformities and spinal pathologies in children.

Where he sees patients: Institute of Spine and Joint Pathology named after Professor M.I. Sytenko of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine.