Tetyana Pertseva

Pertseva completed a Doctor of Sciences in Medicine [ru] with honors at the Dnipro State Medical University in 1975.^[1] She worked as a therapist until 1980.^[1] She was a clinical resident and assistant from 1980 to 1983.^[1] She defended her Candidate of Sciences thesis in 1984. In 1988, she became an associate professor.^[1] From 1992 to 2016, Pertseva headed the department of family therapy and endocrinology which later reorganized into the department of internal medicine.^[1] She became a professor in 1993.^[1] Pertseva defended her doctoral thesis in 1994.^[1] She specialized in pulmonology and internal medicine. From 1992 to 1993, she was the dean of the medical faculty.^[1] She was the second vice-rector for academics from 1993 to 1996, when she became the vice-rector for academics. Pertseva was awarded the Order of Princess Olga, third degree.^[1] In 2003, she was elected as a corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU).^[1] From 2004 to 2017, Pertseva was the first vice-rector of the university.^[1] She is the rector of the university. In 2021, she was elected academician of NASU.^[1] Pertseva is the editor-in-chief of the medical journal, Medičnì Perspektivi.^[2]