Zakharchuk Oleksandr Valentinovich

In 1996, I graduated with honors from Zaporizhzhia State Medical University with a degree in "Medical Affairs", in 1998, after completing an internship, I received a certificate of a specialist doctor in the specialty "Surgery", in 1999 I received the qualification of a Master of Medicine. In 2020, I received a certificate of a specialist doctor in the specialty "Oncology Surgery". In 2020, I received a second higher education in the specialty "Public Management and Administration" (Zaporizhzhya State University).

Work experience:

• Head of the Surgical Department of VITACENTER LLC, Zaporizhzhia, 2018-2023
• Deputy Medical Director for Medical Work of VITACENTER LLC, Zaporizhzhia, 2021-2023
• Head of the Surgical Hospital UniClinic LLC "KRAMINVEST", Zaporizhzhia from 2023 - 2025
• Since April 2025, I have been working as a surgeon, oncologist at the "Oberig" clinic.

Scientific degree and category:

Associate Professor (since 2022), PhD of Medical Sciences (2005), Surgeon of the highest qualification category, Surgeon-oncologist.

Scientific activity:

• Assistant at the Department of Faculty Surgery of the Zaporizhzhia State Medical University since 2005.

• Associate Professor at the Department of Faculty Surgery of the Zaporizhzhia State Medical and Pharmaceutical University from 2020 to the present.

Professional achievements and experience:

• PhD thesis "Features of the clinical course of purulent-inflammatory diseases of soft tissues in drug-dependent patients", 2005.

• Master's degree in surgery 1996-1999

• Postgraduate degree in surgery 2001-2004

• English level B2.

Main specialization: abdominal surgery, surgical oncology, laparoscopic surgery. Author and co-author of over 70 scientific papers. I operate on all types of surgical abdominal pathology, including both benign and malignant pathology. My professional interests include the use of minimally and minimally invasive surgical treatment methods, surgery for diseases of the urinary and reproductive systems in men and women, hernia treatment, as well as acute surgical pathology. I widely use the latest methods of organ-preserving surgical interventions and endoscopic methods of surgical treatment of surgical pathology.

Advanced training courses:

• Single-port laparoscopic surgery: courses, master class (European school of laparoscopic surgery, Brussels, Belgium, 2011)

• Laparoscopic colorectal surgery: courses, master class (IRCAD, Strasbourg, France, 2012)

• Surgical oncology, 2015 (specialization, State Institution "Zaporizhzhya Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine")

• Inguinal and abdominal hernias: courses, master class (IRCAD, Strasbourg, France, 2015)

• Laparoscopic surgery of the upper gastrointestinal tract: courses, master class (EAES, Dundee, Scotland, 2015)

• Transanal mesorectectomy TaTME: courses, master class (EAES, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2016)

• Performing intraperitoneal hyperthermic chemotherapy after cytoreductive operations: courses, master class (ESSO, Hamburg,

Germany, 2019)

• Liver surgery: courses, master class (ESSO, Innsbruck, Austria, 2019)

• Advanced techniques in laparoscopic gynecological surgery: courses, master class (IRCAD, Strasbourg, France, 2021)

• New perspectives in hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery. Advanced course: courses, master class (IRCAD, Strasbourg, France,

2021).

Participation in international congresses:

• 24th International Congress of the European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2016)

• 25th International Congress of the European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2017)

• 26th International Congress of the European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES, London, UK, 2018)

• 38th Congress of the European Society for Surgical Oncology (ESSO, Budapest, Hungary, 2018)

• 27th International Congress of the European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES, Seville, Spain, 2019)

Membership in associations:

• European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES).

• European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO).

• Ukrainian Union of Surgical Oncologists (USSO).

• Ukrainian Association of Specialists in Minimally Invasive, Endoscopic and Laser Technologies (UAMELT).

• Association of Surgeons of Zaporizhia Region.

Being a doctor is my conscious choice. 

 I was attracted by clarity: there is a problem - you are doing. There is a person - you help. 

Medicine is a combination of mind, decisions and humanity.  Eventually I've realized that it is important for me to see the result of my work - when the patient gets better. This occupation has meaning, responsibility and trust. That's what keeps me here.