Olena V. Tkachenko, head of the department, MD, Dr. Sc., Full Professor,

Author of over 200 published works, including 10 monographs and manuals, 2 invention patents.

Area of Expertise: pathomorphosis and adaptation and compensatory possibilities of the organism in neurological diseases, particularly in cerebrovascular disease, lesions of the peripheral nervous system, craniocerebral injuries, infectious and inflammatory diseases of the nervous system and somatic diseases.

Member of the editorial boards of journals “Internal Medicine”, “Ukrainian Neurological Journal”; member of the editorial board of the National Journal of Neurology (Azerbaijan).

Full Professor O. V. Tkachenko is the Vice-Chairman of the Specialized Council D 26.613.01 on Defense of PhD and doctoral theses in specialty 14.01.15 “Nervous diseases” and the Chairman of the Dissertation Review Committee in Neurology.