Conference
Innovations in Obstetrician-Gynecologist Practice and Related Disciplines: Modern Challenges
A scientific and practical conference on interdisciplinary issues in obstetrics, gynecology and related specialties, held on 30 November 2023.
Organizing Committee
Organisers
- Odesa Branch of the Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Ukraine — official CPD provider No. 1118.
- Odesa National Medical University.
Organising committee
- Gulsym Manasova — Head of the Odesa AOGU branch, Honoured Doctor of Ukraine and Professor at Odesa National Medical University.
- Ihor Hladchuk — Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Odesa National Medical University, Professor.
- Nataliia Rozhkovska — Professor at Odesa National Medical University.
- Svitlana Posokhova — Honoured Doctor of Ukraine and Professor at Odesa National Medical University.
- Nataliia Kuzmyn — PhD, Secretary of the Odesa AOGU branch and obstetrician-gynecologist at Odesa Maternity Hospital No. 5.
Key speakers

Gulsym Manasova
Professor at Odesa National Medical University; speaker on pregnancy during COVID-19 and war and prevention of postpartum haemorrhage.

Nataliia Rozhkovska
Professor at Odesa National Medical University; speaker on diagnosis and treatment of caesarean-scar niche.

Svitlana Posokhova
Professor at Odesa National Medical University; speaker on prevention of severe preeclampsia outcomes.

Oleksandr Budniuk
Professor at Odesa National Medical University; speaker on intensive care in obstetrics and gynecology.

Andrii Rybin
Professor and gynecologic oncology specialist; speaker on personalised ovarian-cancer management.

Olena Nosenko
Professor at Odesa National Medical University; speaker on nonimmune fetal hydrops.
Programme by hour
- 09:00
Conference opening
- Gulsym Manasova — welcome from the Head of the Odesa AOGU branch.
- Ihor Hladchuk — welcome from the Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Odesa National Medical University.
- 09:15
Scientific programme
- Ihor Riazantsev — Perinatal care during wartime and optimisation of maternity hospitals in the Odesa region.
- Gulsym Manasova, Mykola Shapoval, Anastasiia Kulykova, Kateryna Kalnooka — COVID-19, war and pregnancy: can their impact be compared?
- Nataliia Rozhkovska, Zinovii Hladchuk, Varvara Sytnikova, Sylvestr Syvyi — Caesarean-scar niche: diagnostic criteria and treatment.
- Svitlana Posokhova — Prevention of severe consequences of preeclampsia.
- Vitalii Kozhakov, Yurii Petrovskyi — Surgery for genital prolapse: classical and innovative approaches.
- Olena Nosenko — Pathogenesis, diagnosis and systemic management of nonimmune fetal hydrops.
- Oleksandr Budniuk — Intensive care in obstetrics and gynecology.
- Andrii Rybin — Personalised management of ovarian cancer.
- Dmytro Zhelezov — Placenta accreta spectrum: modern management illustrated by a clinical case.
- Nataliia Kuzmyn — Rh isoimmunisation and modern prevention and treatment.
- Gulsym Manasova — Prevention and treatment of postpartum haemorrhage: updated FIGO 2022–2023 recommendations.
- 16:30
Discussion
Discussion of the presentations and clinical approaches.
Speaker abstracts
- Oleksandr Budniuk
- Head of the Department of Anesthesiology and Emergency Medicine at Odesa National Medical University, Professor.
- Ihor Hladchuk
- Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Odesa National Medical University, Professor.
- Zinovii Hladchuk
- Postgraduate researcher at Odesa National Medical University.
- Tetiana Yermolenko
- Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Odesa National Medical University.
- Dmytro Zhelezov
- Medical Director of Odesa Maternity Hospital No. 5, Doctor of Medical Sciences.
- Vitalii Kozhakov
- Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Odesa National Medical University.
- Nataliia Kuzmyn
- PhD and obstetrician-gynecologist at Odesa Maternity Hospital No. 5.
- Gulsym Manasova
- Honoured Doctor of Ukraine, Professor at Odesa National Medical University and Head of the Odesa AOGU branch.
- Viktoriia Nahorna
- Honoured Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine and Professor at Odesa National Medical University.
- Oleh Nikolaiev
- Anesthesiologist specialising in obstetric anesthesia.
- Olena Nosenko
- Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Odesa National Medical University.
- Yurii Petrovskyi
- Associate Professor of Urology at Odesa National Medical University.
- Svitlana Posokhova
- Honoured Doctor of Ukraine and Professor at Odesa National Medical University.
- Nataliia Rozhkovska
- Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Odesa National Medical University.
- Andrii Rybin
- Professor and specialist in gynecologic oncology.
- Ihor Riazantsev
- Medical Director for Obstetrics and Gynecology and Head of the Regional Perinatal Centre.
- Varvara Sytnikova
- Professor and Head of Histology, Cytology, Embryology and Pathological Morphology.
- Sylvestr Syvyi
- Assistant in Histology, Cytology, Embryology and Pathological Morphology.
- Mykola Shapoval
- Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Odesa National Medical University.
About the conference
The scientific and practical conference Innovations in Obstetrician-Gynecologist Practice and Related Disciplines: Modern Challenges took place in Odesa on 30 November 2023 as CPD event No. 5508079.
It was organised by the Odesa Branch of the Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Ukraine and Odesa National Medical University.
The hybrid event used YouTube and Zoom and brought together more than 180 participants from the Odesa, Mykolaiv and Kherson regions.