Biography

From Lutsk to Kyiv.

Alexander Semenovych Gavrysh was born in Lutsk on 8 October 1941. His professional path led through Odesa, Chernivtsi and Lviv to Kyiv.

His father, Semen Zakharovych Gavrysh, was an engineer specialising in the woodworking industry. His mother, Varvara Andriivna Kravets, was a secondary-school teacher.

He studied at Odesa Medical Institute from 1960 to 1964 and graduated from Chernivtsi Medical Institute in 1966.

Lviv: scientific formation.

Alexander Semenovych undertook clinical residency and postgraduate research training at the Department of Pathological Anatomy, Lviv Medical Institute, from 1967 to 1970.

In 1971 he defended his Candidate dissertation, «Морфологические проявления недостаточности лимфатической системы сердца» — on the morphological manifestations of insufficiency of the cardiac lymphatic system. From 1971 to 1976, he worked as an assistant in the same department.

Kyiv. Studying the heart.

In 1976 Alexander Semenovych joined the Ukrainian Research Institute of Cardiology named after academician M. D. Strazhesko in Kyiv. He worked as a senior researcher, headed the laboratory of pathomorphology and electron microscopy, and later led the department of pathomorphology.

He investigated how the structure of small vessels, heart tissue and its cells relates to cardiac function and disease. His subjects included cardiac lymphatics, microcirculation, atherosclerosis, ischaemic injury and the hypertensive heart. Electron microscopy and morphometry were used to examine tissue and cellular changes in clinical and experimental material.

His higher doctoral dissertation was titled «Функциональная морфология миокарда при хронической ишемической болезни сердца» — on the functional morphology of the myocardium in chronic ischaemic heart disease. Alexander Semenovych defended it in 1985 and received the Doctor of Medical Sciences degree in 1986. He received the academic title of professor in 1999.

In 2018 Alexander Semenovych was Viktoriia Krychkevych’s scientific supervisor and headed the department of pathomorphology and electron microscopy at the Institute of Cardiology.

Honours and professional community.

Alexander Semenovych has been awarded an Honorary Certificate of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and a commendation from the Mayor of Kyiv, accompanied by an inscribed watch.

He is a member of the Ukrainian scientific societies of pathologists and cardiologists, the International Academy of Pathology, and a specialised dissertation council at Bogomolets National Medical University. More about his professional and editorial work is available on the Scientific work page.

A chronology.

1. 1941

   Born in Lutsk on 8 October.

2. 1960–1964

   Studied at Odesa Medical Institute.

3. 1966

   Graduated from Chernivtsi Medical Institute.

4. 1967–1970

   Clinical residency and postgraduate research training in Lviv.

5. 1971

   Defended his Candidate dissertation on insufficiency of the cardiac lymphatic system.

6. 1971–1976

   Assistant in the Department of Pathological Anatomy at Lviv Medical Institute.

7. 1976

   Joined the Institute of Cardiology in Kyiv.

8. 1985 / 1986

   Defended his higher doctoral dissertation in 1985; received the Doctor of Medical Sciences degree in 1986.

9. 1999

   Received the academic title of professor.

10. 2009

    Publication of Pro-atherogenic endotheliopathy.

11. 2015

    Publication of Ischaemic cardiomyopathy, coauthored with V. S. Paukov.

12. 2018

    Scientific supervisor to Viktoriia Krychkevych.

13. 2020

    Publication of Hypertensive heart: Functional morphology.

Literature, painting, music.

His interests include literature, painting and music.

Alexander Semenovych writes prose and poetry. His Russian-language poems form the collection Seasons.