Development of new methods of diagnostics and prevention of Noncommunicable Disease; development of the Magnetoelectrochemical Theory of Metabolism and Life as a new basis for the modern paradigm for the further progress of Systemic Medicine

 

Highlights

Languages

• Ukrainian, English

Gender

• Male

PSMU Affiliations:

• Head of the Department of Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Postgraduate Education

Location:

• 23 Shevchenko Str., 36011 Poltava, Ukraine 
• email: m.potiazhenko@pdmu.edu.ua

 

About Prof. Maksim Potyazhenko

Primary Academic Title

• Doctor of Medical Sciences (Dr. habil.: postdoc degree since 1993)
• Professor (Internal Diseases) since 1995

Professional Titles

• From 2015 to the present: Head of the Department of Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine
• 2008 — 2015: Head of the Department of Internship in Therapy and General Medical Training of the Poltava State Medical University
• 1993 — 2008: Head of the Department of Internship in Therapy and General Medical Training of the Poltava State Medical University
• 2000 — 2003: Dean of the Faculty of Training of Foreign Students of the Poltava Medical Stomatological Institute
• 1994 — 1995: Vice-rector for Educational and Methodical work of students of the Poltava Medical Stomatological Institute
• 1991 — 1992: Deputy Dean for Internship of the Medical Faculty of the Poltava Medical Stomatological Institute
• 1984 — 1993: Associate Professor of the Department of Faculty Therapy of Poltava Medical Stomatological Institute
• 1978 — 1984: Assistant of the Department of Faculty Therapy of Poltava Medical Stomatological Institute
• 1975 — 1978: Postgraduate student in the specialty "Cardiology" of the Department of Faculty Therapy of the Poltava Medical Stomatological Institute, Ukraine
• 1972 — 1975: Head of the Department of Emergency and Planned Consultative Medical Care of the Poltava Regional Hospital named after M.V. Sklifosovsky, a part-time resident doctor of the hospital's cardio-rheumatology department
• 1963 — 1972: paramedic of the regimental medical center of the military unit of the Transcaucasian District

 

Background

Maksim Potyazhenko is a Ukrainian therapist who has dedicated himself to studying Non-communicable diseases. Professor Maksim Potyazhenko during his professional activity paid attention to such main scientific directions as studying the features of the clinical course, diagnostics and treatment of combined pathology of internal organs; the influence of harmful environmental factors on the development and progression of bronchopulmonary pathology and the development of methods of differentiated therapy and rehabilitation; experimental and clinical substantiation of the use of antioxidants in the complex therapy of diabetic angiopathies; optimization of the use of information and communication technologies in clinical medicine and postgraduate medical education; improvement of methods of therapy and prevention of latent forms of syphilis" to study the prevalence and clinical and epidemiological features of latent forms of syphilis and optimization of treatment and preventive methods for preventing this disease; development of improved methods of diagnosis and complex treatment of chronic dermatoses and infections, which are mainly sexually transmitted, taking into account the identification of additional factors significant in the pathogenesis of these diseases"; development of algorithms and technologies for introducing a healthy lifestyle in patients with non-communicable diseases based on the study of psycho-emotional status. In recent years, he has initiated the extrapolation of modern knowledge of quantum physics into medical science, is the founder of ideas on the conceptualization of the role of electromagnetic fields in the functioning of the human body, and co-author of the Magnetoelectrochemical Theory of Metabolism and Life. These studies deepen fundamental knowledge about the pathogenesis of Noncommunicable diseases, and a new educational and scientific project, "Bioelectronic Medicine, or Look at Medicine Differently," was initiated.

Maksim Potyazhenko is the author of 500 research publications, including 40 articles in the Scopus and Web of Science databases, 15 patents in Ukraine for inventions, one monograph, and 24 textbooks.

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Research Interests

• Internal Medicine and Systemic Medicine
• Cardiology
• Pulmonology
• Noncommunicable Diseases, Mitochondrial Dysfunction, and Active Aging
• Magnetobiology and Magnetoelectrochemical Theory of Metabolism and Life of the Human Body

Researcher unique identifier: 0000-0001-9398-1378

Scopus Author ID 6602474465

 

Expertise

Education

1960 -1963 - Paramedic Department of the Kyiv Military Medical School No. 2, Ukraine

1965-1971 - Medical Faculty of the Kyiv Order of the Labor Red Banner of the Academician O.O. Bogomolets Medical Institute, Ukraine

1971-1972 – internship in therapy at the Poltava Regional Hospital named after M.V. Sklifosovskyi, Ukraine

1980 - received the degree of candidate of medical sciences/ PhD on 14.00.06 - cardiology on the topic of the dissertation: "The contractile function of the myocardium in persons in contact with fluorides," MD No. 010791 of December 10, 1980, The Higher Attestation Commission of Ukraine of Ukraine

1984 - received the academic title of Associate Professor of the Department of Faculty Therapy, DC No. 073948 of August 1, 1984, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine

1993 - received the academic degree of Doctor of Medical Sciences /MD on 14.00.06 - cardiology, on the topic of the dissertation: "Refractoriness to drug therapy in patients with coronary heart disease with exogenous constitutional obesity and ways to overcome them", DN No. 000976 of December 29, 1993, The Higher Attestation Commission of Ukraine of Ukraine

1995 - received the academic title of Professor of the Department of Postgraduate Training of Medical Therapists, PR AR No. 000090, dated April 12, 1995, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine

Selected Publications

• Mintser, O.P., Potyazhenko, M.M., Nevoit, G.V. (2021) Magnetoelectrochemical Theory of Metabolism. Volume 1 Conceptualization, monograph. in 2 volumes, Kyiv-Poltava, Interservice, 2021; 1-352. (Ukrainian)
• Nevoit, G., Jarusevicius, G., Potyazhenko, M., Mintser, O., Bumblyte, I.A., & Vainoras, A. (2024). Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Risk Factors for Noncommunicable Diseases: From Basic Concepts to Future Prospective. Diseases. 2024; 12(11):277. https://doi.org/10.3390/diseases12110277
• Nevoit, G.V., Poderiene, K.S., Danilchenko, I., Kitura, O.E., Lyulka, N.O., Golovchenko, I.V., Potyazhenko, M.M., Mintser, O.P., Yarushavičius, G., Vainoras A. (2025). Educational and scientific project “Bioelectronic medicine or look at medicine differently”: the path to a paradigm shift. Ukrainian Medical Journal, 4 (170) – IV/V. DOI: 10.32471/umj.1680-3051.266174 (Ukrainian)
• Nevoit, G., Jarusevicius, G., Potyazhenko, M., Mintser, O., Bumblyte, I.A., Vainoras, A. (2025). Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Atherosclerosis: The Problem and the Search for Its Solution. Biomedicines. 13, 963. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines13040963
• Nevoit, G., Landauskas, M., McCarty, R., Bumblyte, I.A., Potyazhenko, M., Taletaviciene, G., Jarusevicius, G., & Vainoras, A. (2025). Schumann Resonances and the Human Body: Questions About Interactions, Problems and Prospects. Appl. Sci. 15, 449. https://doi.org/10.3390/app15010449
• Nevoit G., Poderiene K., Potyazhenko M.,  Mintser O.,  Jarusevicius G., and  Vainoras A. (2025). The Concept of Biophotonic Signaling in the human body and brain: Rationale, Problems and Directions. Front. Syst. Neurosci., 19, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2025.1597329.

Honors and Awards

1989 - "Health Care Excellence" of the USSR

1989 - Laureate of the diploma and the third prize of the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Special Education of the Ukrainian SSR "For achievements in educational and scientific and methodological work."

1998 - "Excellence of Education of Ukraine"

2011, 2016 - Honored by the Rector of the Academy

2016 - Certificate of honor of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine "For exceptional services to the Ukrainian people

2013, 2018, 2020, 2022 - Certificate of honor from the administration of the city of Poltava for contributions to healthcare

Memberships

• 2003-2021 - Chairman of the Approbation Council No. 1 for the Defense of Doctoral and Candidate Dissertations of the VDNZU "UMSA"
• 2003-2021 - Chairman of the Cyclic Methodological Commission of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Postgraduate Education,
• 1995-2021 - Chairman of the Poltava Regional Scientific and Practical Society of Therapists and Pulmonologists.
• 2020 to present - member of the National Association of Valerianology, Head of the Poltava branch
• 2020 to the present - Chairman of the Regional Scientific and Practical Society of Pulmonologists.
• 2020 to the present - Member of the Poltava Regional Scientific and Practical Society of Therapists
• 2020 to the present - Member of the All-Ukrainian Public Organization "Association of Internists," minutes No. 1 of December 14, 2020, of the meeting of the Organizational group of the Poltava Regional Public Center of the All-Ukrainian Public Organization "Association of Internists of Ukraine."
• 2021 to present - Member of the permanent specialized academic council of the Ukrainian State Medical University/PMU D.44.601.02. for the defense of doctoral dissertations

 

Professional Activities

• Professor Maksim Potyazhenko is a highly qualified specialist, a physician-therapist of the highest category, with 52 years of work experience.
• Professor Maksim Potyazhenko is a Reviewer and editorial board member of the scientific journal “Fitoterapiia. Chasopys – Phytotherapy. Journal” (Scopus, Ukraine).
• Professor Maksim Potyazhenko participates annually in oral presentations at scientific and practical conferences.
• Professor Maksim Potyazhenko is the Head of research for PhD and MD.
• In 1998, on the initiative of Professor Potyazhenko M.M., the regional educational, diagnostic, and treatment pulmonology center was created, equipped, and successfully functioning based on the department and the pulmonology department of the Poltava Regional Clinical Hospital named after M.V. Sklifosovsky.
• In 2019, on the initiative of Professor Potyazhenko M.M., the Educational and Scientific Center of Biophotonics and Valeology was established, equipped, and is now operational, based on the department and the Poltava Regional Clinical Hospital named after M.V. Sklifosovsky. This provided a practical opportunity to create a new scientific direction in studying the role of electromagnetic processes in the functioning of the human body and in the pathogenesis of chronic non-communicable diseases, as well as in the development of the Magnetoelectrochemical Theory of Metabolism and Life, through scientific cooperation with other institutions. Thanks to this, since 2018, scientific collaboration has been carried out with the Department of Fundamental Disciplines and Informatics, Shupyk National Healthcare University of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine; from 2022 - from the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania; from 2024 - Department of Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Kherson State University, Ivano-Frankivsk region, Ukraine; from 2025 - from the Department of Health and Rehabilitation, Lithuanian sports university Institute of Sports Science and Innovation, Kaunas, Lithuania. This made it possible to study and discover new fundamental mechanisms of the emergence and development of chronic non-communicable diseases more effectively.
• Professor Maksim Potyazhenko is a Scientific leader of the initiative-search research project "Development of algorithms and technologies for introducing a healthy lifestyle in patients with non-communicable diseases based on the study of functional status," state registration number 0121U108237, implementation period 2021-2025.

Additional Training

•  Advanced training courses at the Ukrainian Medical Stomatological Academy according to the advanced training curriculum "Modern information technologies and methods of teaching disciplines in higher education institutions. Professional competence of scientific and pedagogical (pedagogical) workers in the conditions of a modern higher education institution", certificate No. 244/21 dated 6 April 2021, (5 ECTS credits, 150 hours).
•  Online course: "Google Digital Tools for Education" (fundamental level). Certificate No. GDTfE-04-B-03307 dated 13 December 2022 (1 ECTS credit, 30 hours).
•  Advanced training courses at Poltava State Medical University under the advanced training curriculum "School of Scientific Supervisor" "Module 1. Methodology of scientific research and features of presenting its results", certificate No. 896/23 dated 17 May 2023 (1 credit, 30 hours).
• State Non-Profit Enterprise "Center for Testing Professional Competence of Specialists with Higher Education in the Fields of Training "Medicine" and "Pharmacy" under the Ministry of Health of Ukraine," the first module "Theoretical Fundamentals of Technology" of the training cycle "Fundamentals of Constructing a Qualitative Test," certificate No. 02/2024_01251/T dated 1 January 2024. (0.6 credits, 18 hours).
• P.L. Shupyk National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, TU cycle "Pharmacotherapy of diseases of internal organs," certificate No. 6429 dated 19 May 2020, (2.6 credits, 78 hours).
• Training under the training program "Instructor in providing pre-hospital care" at the State Institution "Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Center for Emergency Medical Care and Disaster Medicine of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine," 01-03.02.2022, certificate No. 2022-02-24 dated 03 February .2022, (0.8 credits, 24 hours).
• Poltava State Medical University, TU cycle: "Diagnosis and pharmacotherapy of diseases of internal organs in elderly patients," certificate No. 1330 dated 27 June 2023, (2.6 credits, 78 hours).
• Poltava State Medical University, TU cycle: "Current issues of therapy," certificate No. 7 dated 22 January 2024, (2.6 credits, 78 hours).
• Certification at the Ministry of Health of Ukraine: confirmed highest qualification category in the specialty "Therapy," certificate No. 8128 dated 10 December 2021.
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