Khafisova Olga

Function: Gastroenterologist.

Main specialty: Gastroenterology.

Clinic: MEDSI Clinical Diagnostic Centre at Belorusskaya

Academic degree / Category: Candidate of Medical Sciences.

Education: Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Moscow, 2007.

Diploma specialty: Therapy.

Experience: 10 years (since 2009).

Professionals achievements and experience: candidate dissertation, topic: “The effects of hypercholesterolaemia, insulin resistance and its treatment with metformin on the efficacy of combination antiviral therapy with peginterferon α-2b and ribavirin in patients with chronic hepatitis C”, 2011.

Residency: Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Moscow, 2009.

Fellowship: Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Moscow, 2011.

Advanced training courses: Specialist Certificate in Gastroenterology, Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Additional Professional Education “Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education”, 2016.

Participation in seminars, conferences, professional associations: participant of annual congresses of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL), since 2011.

Publications, articles: author of 13 scientific articles and educational publications (guidelines).

Knowledge of foreign languages: English.

List of procedures and operations performed:

• Diagnosis and outpatient treatment of stomach diseases
• Diagnosis and outpatient treatment of liver diseases
• Diagnosis and outpatient treatment of intestinal diseases

Range of practical interests:

• Liver diseases of various aetiologies:
  • Alcoholic fatty liver disease
  • Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
  • Autoimmune liver diseases
  • Toxic and drug-induced liver damage
  • Haemochromatosis
  • Wilson-Konovalov disease
  • Liver cirrhosis of various aetiologies
• Acute and chronic gastritis
• Gastroesophageal reflux disease
• Gastric and duodenal peptic ulcer disease
• Chronic pancreatitis
• Inflammatory bowel disease
• Irritable bowel syndrome

Other skills: non-surgical diagnosis of the degree of fibrosis/cirrhosis – elastography of the liver.