Candidate of Medical Sciences
Associate Professor, Department of Oncology
Shupyk National Healthcare University of Ukraine
Oncologist of the highest category
Ponomarova Olga, born in 1959, graduated from the Pediatrics Faculty of Kyiv Medical Institute in 1982 with a specialization in Pediatrics.
Her professional journey includes:
- 1982-1988: Worked as a district pediatrician at Children's Hospital No. 11 in the Leninsky District of Kyiv.
- 1988-1999: Served as an oncologist at the Department of Systemic Tumors at the Ukrainian Scientific Research Institute of Oncology and Radiology under the Ministry of Health of Ukraine.
- In 1996, she earned a Candidate of Medical Sciences degree in oncology with a dissertation on "Therapy of Malignant Lymphoproliferative Diseases Considering Their Individual Sensitivity to Antitumor Chemotherapeutic Agents."
- 1999-2002: Worked as an oncologist at the Kyiv Municipal Clinical Oncological Center; from 2002 to 2018, she held the position of senior research fellow at the R.E. Kavetsky Institute of Experimental Pathology, Oncology, and Radiobiology under the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
- 2018-2021: Associate Professor at the Department of Oncology at the P.L. Shupyk National Healthcare University of Ukraine.
- Since 2021: Head of the Chemotherapy Department at the Kyiv Municipal Clinical Oncological Center.
Apart from her clinical and consulting work, Olga Volodymyrivna conducts scientific research based on clinical data. Her research interests include the treatment of malignant lymphomas, chemotherapy for various solid tumors, prevention and correction of complications of chemo-radiotherapy, palliative and symptomatic treatment of terminal stages of tumor progression.
Her research findings have led to 116 publications, including seven monographs, three textbooks, eight methodological recommendations, eight manuals, and 80 articles in professional journals. She has participated in 45 multicenter international clinical trials as a principal investigator and co-investigator. Olga Volodymyrivna considers clinical trials of domestic supportive care for chemotherapy to be an important part of her work.