Olga Vadimovna Bogomolets – dermatologist, politician, ex-people’s deputy of Ukraine, ex-head of the Verkhovna Rada committee on health issues, ex-adviser to the President of Ukraine on humanitarian issues. Honored Doctor of Ukraine, Doctor of Medical Sciences.
Place of Birth. Education. She was born on March 22, 1966 in Kiev, in a family of hereditary doctors. Mother – Ekaterina Olegovna Bogomolets (1939-2013), Professor of the Department of Pathological Anatomy of the National Medical University. A. A. Bogomolets (Kiev), father – Vadim Akimovich Berezovsky, Doctor of Medicine, Professor, Head of the Department of Clinical Pathophysiology of the Institute of Physiology. A. A. Bogomolets NAS of Ukraine. Olga Bogomolets is the great-granddaughter of Academician Alexander Bogomolets, President of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
In 1989 she graduated with honors from the Kiev Medical Institute. A. A. Bogomolets, specialty “Medicine”. From 1989 to 1991 she passed clinical internship at the Ukrainian State Institute for the Improvement of Doctors. In 1993-1994 she studied in the USA at the Pennsylvania Medical University (Philadelphia, USA) (passed a course in environmental dermatology) and the Bernard Ackerman Institute of Dermatopathology (The Ackerman Academy of Dermatopathology).
In 2001 she graduated from the National Pedagogical University. M. P. Dragomanova. Received a degree in practical psychology.
In 2003 at the National Medical University. A. A. Bogomolets received a doctorate in medical sciences in the specialty “Skin and venereal diseases”.
In December 2014, she took courses at the Ukrainian Military Medical Academy of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine “Actual issues of organizing medical support for troops.”
Career. 1989-1991 – clinical intern, dermatologist of the Kiev City Dermatovenerologic Dispensary.
1991-1995 – Senior Researcher, Laboratory of Radiation Pathology, Ministry of Health of Ukraine.
1992-1994 – consultant dermatologist “Register” of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
1995-2000 – Head of the Department of Skin Histopathology of the Kiev Regional Dermatovenerologic Dispensary.
1997-2014 (before being elected a people’s deputy of Ukraine) – founder and chief physician of the Laser Medicine Clinic of Dr. Bogomolets, known as the Institute of Dermatology and Cosmetology of Dr. Olga Bogomolets.
2000-2002 – dermatovenereologist at the Kiev City Dermatovenerological Dispensary.
2004-2005 – personal doctor of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko.
From February 20, 2007 to the present – Professor of the Department of Dermatology and Venereology of the Kiev National Medical University. A. A. Bogomolets.
From 2009 to the present – professor at the Odessa State Medical University.
Coordinator of the European Association for Laser Dermatology in Eastern Europe, member of the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD), European Academy of Dermatovenereology, New York Academy of Sciences.
Medical Reserve Captain.
Political career. 2005-2008 – Deputy of the Kiev City Council. In the 2005 elections, she went to the Kyiv City Council on the list of Our Ukraine in the top five under No. 3, in 2006 she moved to the Capital Reforms faction, which, in turn, was part of the majority of Leonid Chernovetsky. She headed the permanent commission on health and social protection of the Kiev City Council. However, in 2008 she announced her withdrawal from the deputy corps of the Kyiv City Council.
Olga Bogomolets took an active part in organizing the medical support of the Kiev Euromaidan (2013-2014). She was the coordinator of the Euromaidan medical service.
On March 29, 2014, she submitted documents to the Central Election Commission for registration as a candidate for the presidency of Ukraine through self-nomination. In the elections for the presidency of Ukraine, she took 8th place, gaining 1.91%.
On September 1, 2014, she was appointed a non-staff adviser to the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko on humanitarian issues.
On October 26, 2014, she was elected a People’s Deputy of Ukraine on the list of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc. Chaired the parliamentary health committee.
December 6, 2018 announced participation in presidential elections in 2019.
December 20, 2018 President Petro Poroshenko laid off Olga Bogomolets as his freelance adviser.
Scientific work. Author of more than 70 scientific papers and 14 patents for inventions in the field of skin diseases treatment.
Singer. Olga Bogomolets is a performer of ancient and modern Ukrainian romances based on poems by Ukrainian poets (Lina Kostenko, Elena Teliga, etc.) and on her own. Winner of the All-Ukrainian Song Poetry Contest “Oberig”, international song contests in Sopot (Poland) and “White Sails” (Ukraine). Laureate of the special award “Radio Liberty” (1991).
Social activity. Since 2004, Olga Bogomolets has been organizing exhibitions of Ukrainian home icons, of which there are more than 5,000 items in her collection, with the aim of popularizing Ukrainian culture both within the state and abroad.
In 2011, she founded the Radomysl Castle historical and cultural complex in the city of Radomyshl (Zhytomyr region, Ukraine). The complex includes the Museum of Ukrainian Home Icons.
Olga Bogomolets founded the Kairos art hall in Kiev, where exhibitions of contemporary artists and photographers are held.
Views. As head of the Verkhovna Rada committee on health issues, Olga Bogomolets has served a clear stance against reforms acting heads of the Ministry of Health Ulyana Suprun.
Family. Married. Husband – Igor Kirilyuk, lawyer. Children: son Andrey and three daughters – Ekaterina, Anna and Sofia.
03/19/2021