Serhii Serik

Head of Department of Ischemic Heart Disease, Metabolic and Cardiopulmonary Disorders,

MD, PhD, Doctor of Medical Sciences

Serhii Serik – leading scientist, cardiologist of GІ “L.T.Malaya Therapy National Institute of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine”

Scientific experience - 33 years.  Clinical experience - 33 years.

EDUCATION AND SCIENTIFIC TRAINING

In 1991, Serhii Serik had graduated from the Kharkiv Medical Institute with honors with specialty “General medicine”. From 1991 to 1983 he was trained in clinical residency in the specialty “Cardilogy” at the Institute of Therapy. In 2000, he defended his candidate's thesis in the specialty "Cardiology" on the topic “System changes of humoral immunity, cytokines and endothelium function in ischemic heart disease”. In 2003, the decision of the Higher Attestation Commission of Ukraine conferred the academic title of Senior Researcher to S. Serik. In 2013, he defended his thesis for the degree of Doctor of Medical Sciences in the specialty "Internal Diseases" on the topic “Immunoinflammatory activation in patients with heart failure caused by ischemic heart disease and its combination with diabetes mellitus.” 

S.Serik has the highest certification category in the specialty "Cardiology". 

PROFESSIONAL CAREER 

After clinical residency in 1993 Serhii Serik was hired as a junior researcher in the immunology sector of the Institute of Therapy. In 1996, he was transferred to the position of a researcher in the Department of Biochemistry. Since 2004 he worked as a senior researcher in the Department of Biochemical, Immunoenzymatic and Radioimmunological Research Methods. In January 2004, he was transferred to the position of a senior researcher in the Department of Atherosclerosis and Ischemic Heart Disease. Since 2014 S. Serik is the head of the Department of Atherosclerosis and Coronary Heart Disease (since 2021 - the Department of Coronary Heart Disease, Metabolic and Cardiopulmonary Disorders). 

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

The main directions of scientific research are immunoinflammatory mechanisms in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and heart failure; pathogenetic features of coronary artery disease in type 2 diabetes; the role of epigenetic mechanisms (circulating miRNAs, long non-coding RNAs) in the control of metabolic and inflammatory factors of atherogenesis in coronary artery disease and its combination with type 2 diabetes; the significance of non-coding RNAs in the mediating of atheroprotective, anti-inflammatory effects of statins and hypoglycemic agents.

 

Under the supervision of S. Serik two theses for obtaining the scientific degree of Candidate of Medical Sciences have been defended.

SOCIAL ACTIVITIES

Member of the Presidium of the Board of the Ukrainian Association of Preventive Medicine, a member of the Association of Cardiologists of Ukraine, the European Society of Cardiology, a member of the European Society of Atherosclerosis.

 

Member of the editorial board of the "Ukrainian Therapeutic Journal".

 

Chief freelance specialist in cardiology of the Department of Health Care of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration - 2014-2019.

 

Expert on a public basis for evaluating projects within the framework of an experimental project on the organization of activities of the Fund for State Stimulation of the Creation and Use of Inventions (useful models) and industrial samples of the State Innovative Financial and Credit Institution - 2019–2020.

AWARDS AND HONOURS

Scholarship holder of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine for young scientists (2000-2002).

 

Diploma of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine for the series of works "Immuno-inflammatory activity and dysfunction of the endothelium in ischemic heart disease" (2001).

 

Award of the Kharkiv Medical Society named after Academician L.T. Maloi (diploma of the first degree) for a series of scientific works "Immuno-inflammatory activity in ischemic heart disease and heart failure" (2004).

 

Diplomas of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine for the best research works (2000, 2003, 2006, 2017).

 

Certificate of Honor of the Executive Committee of the Kharkiv City Council (2009).

 

Diploma of the Kharkiv Regional Council of the Society of Inventors and Rationalizers (2009).

 

Certificates of Honor of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2013, 2022).

 

Gratitudes of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2015, 2018).

 

Certificate of Honor of the North-Eastern Scientific Center of the National Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (2019).

 

Certificate of Honor of the Department of Health Care of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration (2019).

PUBLICATIONS AND SCIENTIFIC PROFILES

Serhii Serik is the author of more than 300 scientific and educational papers, including monographs, handbooks, guidelines for doctors and methodical recommendations. 

Recent publications (last 5 years):

Serik Serhii

The Head of the Department of Ischemic Heart Disease, Metabolic and Cardipulmonary Disorders, MD, PhD, Doctor of Medical Sciences

L.T. Malaya Therapy National Institute of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine,   

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