“Pulmonary hypertension is a complication of congenital heart disease caused by redistribution of blood from the left to the right heart. Despite the fact that Idiopathic PH is not an independent disease, there is quite a large number of patients suffering from this disease. Today in Ukraine it is not possible for the patients to receive surgical care, because there are important problems of early drug therapy. So there is a need in establishing of  associations to support these patients”.

I, Elizabeth Olehivna Lebedeva, was born  on 16 July 1983 in Kyiv. After graduating in 2000, the Ukrainian Medical Lyceum of Bogomolets NMU (with a silver medal) in 2006 she received full higher education in “Medicine” and got  qualifications of a doctor at O.O. Bohomolets National Medical University (with Honors ).

From 2006 till 2009 studied in internship at M. M. Amosov Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery and at the Department of General Surgery №1 of KyivCityClinicalHospital №10.

Since 2006 till now I work as a surgeon at M. M. Amosov Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery of the National Acadamy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine at the department of “Urgent Endovascular Surgery with X-operating.”

In 2009 I received a Certificate of a specialist on “surgery of the heart and great vessels.”

In 2011, I got the certificate of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine and received the second level of proficiency of  the specialty “Surgery of the heart and great vessels.”

Attended and participated in various conferences (Kyiv, Odessa, Moscow and in other countries).

During my  work I represented myself as a diligent, hardworking, qualified person, capable of scientific work. In 2011 I entered post graduate course by correspondence of the specialty of cardiovascular surgery. By the end of 2014 I plan to defend my candidate’s dissertation.

I know different types of endovascular interventions on the heart and blood vessels: conducting of coronary ventriculography and coronary endoprosthesis of  renal arteries, conducting of  catheter thrombectomy, setting of  coffee-filter and and also conducting of pericardial puncture and other diagnostic as well as therapeutic manipulations.