Maria I. Nehaenko graduated from the pediatric faculty ofthe O. Bogomolets Ukrainian State Medical University in 1994. From 1996 to 2004 worked as a pediatrician in Novi-Petrivci district hospital. From 2004 to 2007 she worked as a neonatologist of the maternity ward in the Vyshgorod district hospital, and from 2007 to 2009 - as a head of the pediatric department and served as deputy chief medical officer on medical issues of the children's clinic №5 of Shevchenkivskyi district in Kyiv. From 2008 has been working as assistant of the Department of Children and Adolescent Diseases of theShupyk NMAPE.