Associate Professor at KRSU Liliya Panteleeva became a Fogarty Fellow

This year, several medical scientists of the Kyrgyz Republic, namely epidemiologist Aisuluu Kubatova, psychiatrist, teacher of the International Higher School of Medicine MUK Mikhail Popkov and psychiatrist, associate professor of the department of medical psychology, psychiatry and psychotherapy of the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University Liliya Panteleeva had a happy opportunity to become fellows of the Fogarty program at Boston Children's Hospital at Harvard Medical School.

Here’s what Liliya Panteleeva told us about this internship:

–Our experience at Harvard University as fellows in the program «International Postgraduate Training in Bioethics Research – C. Asia Network», with the support of the Fogarty International Center/National Institutes of Health (FIC/NIH), is valuable primarily because of the fact that on the basis of the T. Chan School of Public Health, during seminars conducted by experts from the US National Institutes of Health, and in online courses CITI we have gained a huge amount of knowledge on the ethics of scientific research. We had a unique chance to meet not only professors and the organization of the educational process at Harvard, but also colleagues from other countries with whom we became great friends.

Participation in the program also provided an invaluable opportunity to become part of the team at Boston Children's Hospital, where we gained experience and knowledge in the diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of childhood mental disorders. Throughout the internship, we regularly communicated with teachers and researchers of the above-mentioned children's hospital. Thanks to pediatric psychiatrist professor Dr. Kerim Munir, Harvard Medical School philosophy professor Daniel Wikler, who studies ethics in the context of public health, and professor Dennis Kinney, who is a consultant for the physician medical research training program at Harvard University, our understanding of accepted medical research has become much broader. On this basis, we have designed our own study and continue to receive recommendations and comments on its conduct.

It should be noted that four months of study abroad made it possible to study the host country more deeply, understand its people, to some extent their psychology and culture, and expand their own horizons.

We now hope to use all the knowledge we have gained to improve research at our home medical faculty KRSU and on a larger scale!