Andrey Kovalchuk

About doctor Andrey Kovalchuk

Andrey Kovalchuk is a surgeon, Candidate of Medical Sciences, Director of the Stem Cell Bank of LLC “Genome”, Head of the Bank of Cord Blood, Human Tissues and Cells at the Ivan Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University.

Dr. Kovalchuk is the author and developer of the technology of laser routing of cell autografts, which he introduced into clinical practice in collaboration with the outstanding plastic surgeon Rostislav Valikhnovsky.

Professional experience

• 2014 – Head of the Department of Burn Injury and Plastic Surgery of the Ternopil City Emergency Hospital;
• 2018 – organizer and head of the cord blood, tissue and human cell bank based at Ternopil National Medical University named after Ivan Gorbachevsky;
• 2019 – Director of the biotechnology company “Genome” – a private bank of umbilical cord blood, tissues and human cells.

Andrey Kovalchuk is also an active participant in international seminars and conferences, the author of 42 scientific papers and 8 patents. Under his leadership, a series of innovative medical devices “DK-717” was developed, the production base (mass production) of which was organized in Ternopil in 2012. A series of high-tech equipment for skin transplantation is widely used in surgical hospitals and is used in most burn departments of hospitals in Ukraine.

Under the supervision of Dr. Kovalchuk are patients with various diseases who have undergone a course of treatment with cell preparations. It should be noted that in most cases, positive dynamics can be achieved under the condition of complex therapy, which, in addition to cell therapy, includes taking medications, correcting the diet and exercise regimen.

Collaborating with MedTour company, Dr. Kovalchuk conducts online consultations on stem cell treatment:

• systemic connective tissue diseases;
• systemic vasculitis;
• Raynaud’s syndrome;
• cardiovascular diseases (ischemic heart disease, heart failure);
• trophic circulatory disorders of various etiologies;
• type 2 diabetes;
• psoriasis;
• nonspecific ulcerative colitis;
• deforming arthrosis;
• traumatic injuries of the spinal cord;
• neuritis of various etiologies.

In the treatment of these diseases, a team of specialists led by Dr. Kovalchuk managed to achieve stable remission in patients. There is also a positive experience in the rehabilitation of patients who have had ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke.

Pay attention! Dr. Kovalchuk accepts children with autism for treatment starting from 4 months. The rest of the doctors accept children from the age of one year.

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Doctor’s specialty

The main areas of clinical practice and areas of scientific interest of Dr. Kovalchuk are:

• development and clinical implementation of a series of proprietary automated instruments for skin transplantation in patients with deep skin defects;
• development and introduction into clinical practice of biological wound dressings, bioimplants for the treatment of patients with burns;
• cell therapy of somatic diseases and AntiAge-therapy in aesthetic medicine;
• application of LigaSure technology in breast surgery;
• optimization of early surgical treatment of patients with burn injury and post-burn scar deformities;
• aesthetic surgery of the face and mammary glands;
• reconstructive surgery: plastic surgery of defects of the face, chest, and limbs with perforating skin-subcutaneous flaps;
• aesthetic medicine, injection cosmetology;
• regenerative medicine: cell culture technologies in a biotechnological laboratory;
• development and implementation of modified SPRS methods;
• therapy with mesenchymal stem cells for respiratory distress syndrome in patients with coronavirus disease;

Surgical interests: aesthetic and reconstructive surgery, combustiology, transplantology.