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Volodymyr Shepitko, MD, Professor

Volodymyr Shepitko, MD, Professor

Histology, Cytology, Embryology
Cryomedicine and Cryobiology

 

Highlights

Languages
  • Ukrainian
Gender
  • Male
PSMU Affiliations:
  •  Department of Histology, Cytology and Embryology
Location:

 

About Prof. Volodymyr Shepitko

Primary Academic Title
  • Doctor of Medical Sciences since 2005
  • Professor (Cryomedicine) since 2005
Professional Titles
  • Academician of the International Academy of Integrative Anthropology (2002).

 

Background

Volodymyr Shepitko is a Ukrainian histologist and Professor of the Department of Histology, Cytology and Embryology at Poltava State Medical University.

He is the author and co-author of more than 715 scientific and research works, of which 14 articles are in journals indexed by "Scopus" database (h-index: 2). Co-author of 27 patents, including 17 patents for utility models and 10 patents for inventions; 14 author's certificates and other educational, methodological, and scientific-pedagogical works; 73 textbooks on Histology, Cytology, and Embryology; practical manuals; and methodological developments.

Volodymyr Shepitko graduated from the Poltava Medical Dental Institute in 1972 with a degree in dentistry and worked in this field until 1976.

From 1976 to 1994 he worked at the Department of Operative Surgery and Topographic Anatomy of the Poltava Medical and Dental Institute (PMDI) and since 1994 at the Ukrainian Medical Stomatological Academy (UMSA). During his career, he held positions ranging from senior laboratory assistant to professor.

 In 1984, he defended his PhD thesis “Surgical Anatomy of the Extracranial Section of the Vertebral Artery in Elderly and Senile Individuals” (supervisor – Prof. M.S. Skrypnikov), which was awarded as the best work among young scientists in 1984. He headed the Preparatory Department from 1988 to 1991 and served as deputy Dean of the Medical faculty from 1991 to 2000.

In 2005, he defended his doctoral dissertation “Structural and functional indicators of cryopreserved placenta and the effect of its transplantation on the morphofunctional state of a number of internal organs,” scientific advisor – Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine V.I. Gryshchenko.

Professor Volodymyr Shepitko headed the Department of Histology, Cytology, and Embryology from 2004 to 2024. Under the supervision of Volodymyr Shepitko, 1 doctoral dissertation and 13 candidate dissertations have been defended

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Research Interests
  • Cryomedicine and Cryobiology
  • Cryopreserved placenta
  • Histology, Cytology, Embryology

Researcher unique identifier: 0000-0001-5570-795X

Scopus Author ID 6504605639

 

Expertise

Education

1972 – Dentist, Poltava Medical Stomatological Institute, Poltava, Ukraine.
1984 – Candidate of Medical Sciences (corresponding to PhD), Crimean State Medical Institute, Simferopol, Ukraine. Title of PhD thesis: “Surgical anatomy of the extracranial segment of the vertebral artery in elderly and senile individuals”.
2005 – Doctor of Medical Sciences in Cryomedicine, Institute of Cryobiology and Cryomedicine Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine. Title of Postdoctoral thesis: “Structural and functional indicators of cryopreserved placenta and the effect of its transplantation on the morphofunctional state of a number of internal organs”.
2005 – Professor (Cryomedicine), Higher Attestation Commission.

Selected Publications
  • Boruta, N., Shepitko, V., Mykhailenko, V., Vilkhova, O., Rud, M., Lysachenko, O., … Stetsuk, Y. (2025). Morphometric evaluation of the exocrine and the endocrine parts of the pancreas in rats under conditions of long-term triptorelin exposure (experimental study). International journal of endocrinology (Ukraine), 21(7), 769–776. https://doi.org/10.22141/2224-0721.21.7.2025.1645
  • Stetsuk, Y.V., Shepitko, V.I., Pronina, O.M., Zaporozhets, T.M., Boruta, N.V., Vilkhova, O.V., Lysachenko, O.D., Pelypenko, L.B., Voloshyna, O.V. and Levchenko , O.A. 2024. Effect of quercetin administration on electron microscopic changes in testicular interstitial endocrinocytes during long-term central blockade of luteinising hormone in rats. Reports of Morphology. 30, 1 (Mar. 2024), 68-75. DOI:https://doi.org/10.31393/morphology-journal-2024-30(1)-09.
  • Martynenko, R., Shepitko, V., Stetsuk, Y., Boruta, N., Rud, M., Vilkhova, O., Moskalenko, R. and Martynenko, V. 2023. Expression of Ki67 and CD68+ cells of red bone marrow monocyte sprout under triptorelin administration in the hypothalamic-pituitary-testis regulatory system: the experimental study. International journal of endocrinology (Ukraine). 19, 6 (Oct. 2023), 412–418. DOI:https://doi.org/10.22141/2224-0721.19.6.2023.1308.
  • Ye. V. Stetsuk, V. I. Shepytko, O. Ye. Akimov, N. V. Boruta, M. V. Rud1, L. B. Pelypenko, O. D. Lysachenko, O. V. Vilkhova, T. A. Skotarenko, O. V. Voloshyna. 2023. Dynamics of CD68 receptor expression in macrophages of the interstitial space of the rat testis under triptorelin prolonged administration. Ukr.Biochem.J. 2023; Volume 95, Issue 2, Mar-Apr, pp. 75-82 doi: https://doi.org/10.15407/ubj95.02.075.
Honors and Awards
  • Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology (2002).
Memberships
  • Member of the Scientific Society of Anatomists, Histologists, Embryologists, and Topographic Anatomists of Ukraine..
  • Member of the specialized council for the defense of candidate and doctoral dissertations D 64.242.01 at the Institute of Cryobiology and Cryomedicine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

 

Professional Activities

  • 1996-2016 Director of the Poltava branch of the International Charitable Foundation
  • 1999-2015 Director, Poltava Regional Center for Cell and Tissue Transplantation
  • 2005 – present. Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the journal “World of Medicine and Biology.”.