Tetyana Kyrychenko, MD, PhD, received her graduation in Medicine at the Ukrainian Medical Stomatological Academy, Poltava, Ukraine in June 2007 and then decided to enter the School of Specialization in Infectious Disease. She received her scientific degree of a candidate of medical sciences (PhD) in 2014. Thesis: “Clinical and epidemiological characteristic of HIV-infection and the treatment effectiveness estimation based on role detection of Asp299Gly TLR4 gene polymorphism”.
Dr. Kyrychenko currently work as infectious diseases physician at the Out-Patients department of Poltava Regional HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Center since 2009. In addition, she is on a partial academic position as assistant professor at the Department of microbiology, virology and immunology, Ukrainian Medical Stomatological Academy.
HIV has always been her main field of interest and still now she is personally taking care of more than 800 patients. Her special focus is HIV positive active injected drug users, people on methadone substitution.
Dr. Kyrychenko is an industrious and flexible person, who is always eager to learn something new. Therefore, she has been improving my clinical, research skills and educational qualifications abroad: in Paris, France, Saint-Antoine University Hospital as a researcher of the Medical Exchange Programme, organised by EACS (2019-2020); Salzburg, Austria, Open Medical Institute, organized by AAF (2017); Aix-en- Provence, France, EACS HIV Summer School (2016); Seattle, WA, USA, 21th Annual Principles of STD/HIV Research Course University of Washington (2013). She currently holds a professional membership at the International AIDS Society and European AIDS Clinical Society and is one of the EACS Governing Board members since 2021. Dr. Kyrychenko is a member of the scientific committee of the 6th edition of the Central and Eastern European Meeting on Viral Hepatitis and HIV, EACS Standard of Care Meeting and 18th European AIDS Conference (EACS 2021).
