Psychiatrist (certified in Rostov-on-Don)
Narcologist (certified in St. Petersburg)
PhD in Medicine
Assistant Professor at the Criminal Trial and Criminal Law Department, Faculty of Law, the Southern State University
Member of the Russian Psychiatrists’ Society
Member of the European Psychiatrists’ Association
Decorated by the Order For Merits in the Development of Medicine and Public Health
Olga Alexandrovna was born in Rostov and is a Don Country patriot. She is a doctor in the fourth generation. Her great-grandfather Sarkisiants Aram Samuilovich graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, Kharkov University, in the 19th century. He organized a public health service in Chechnya, created the first protistology service. Her grandmother Sarkisiants Evelina Aramovna was a dentist, who had more than 40 years worked at one and the same polyclinic. Another, maternal grandmother Fuks Eugenia Sergeyevna was an oncologist. The father Bukhanovsky Alexander Olimpiyevich is a psychiatrist. A psychiatrist is also her husband Stryukov Alexander Nikolaevich, and their son Evgeny is going to keep the professional traditions of their family.
Olga Alexandrovna finished secondary school with a silver medal and in 1993 graduated from the Medical-Preventive Faculty of Rostov Order of People’s Friendship Medical Institute. She has passed all the three stages of highly professional medical training: internship, residency (at Rostov State Medical University), postgraduate studentship (at the State Research Center of Social and Legal Psychiatry after V.P. Serbsky, Moscow). She was taught by Professors V.P. Kovalenko, Merited Researcher B.V. Shostakovich, A.O. Bukhanovsky, Assistant Professors V.A. Kitian, Yu.A. Kutiavin, O.Ya. Siletsky, A.Ya. Perekhov, PhD in Medicine A.S. Andreyev, Doctor S.P. Kravtsov.
Olga Alexandrovna constantly strives for further professional education; she was trained at the Psychiatry Department of the Military Medical Academy of St. Petersburg in mental science and addictology, at the Institute of Psychotherapeutics and Clinical Psychology of Moscow (abnormalities of food behavior); at Moscow Research Institute of Psychiatry (psychogeriatrics).
In 1999, winning a competition (1:84), she became a Fellow of the World Psychiatrical Association and, among other 100 young psychiatrists of the world, represented the future of mental medicine at the World Psychiatry Congress in Hamburg, Germany, where she was deputed to represent Eastern and Central Europe.
In 1998 the Minister of Health of Russia publicly expressed thanks to her.
Olga Alexandrovna started her way in medicine as a practical nurse. In 1998 she was employed by Phoenix, where she finally became Head Doctor.
She is a proficient diagnostician applying most up-to-date methods in the treatment of all mental disorders in young, adult and senior patients, including the most difficult and inveterate cases. She achieves brilliant results while treating anorexia, even at the pre-terminal (agonal) stage of the disease, in the treatment of depressions, including chronic ones, at protracted, frequent fits of schizophrenia, in the treatment of older and senior patients, including those suffering from mental deficiency and Alzheimer's disease. She has attained good results in curing the women who have experienced personal troubles (treachery, divorce, family breakdown).
She is hearty, able to deeply feel the trouble of the patient and his/her relatives. She is responsible, has a pliant nature, can easily find a common language with any patient at any state. She can logically explain any problem, the disease included, and she can comment on the necessity and peculiarities of the methods of diagnostics and treatment.
She is honest with the patients and their relatives. She lends her soul to the patients.
She combines the doctor’s duties with her research and pedagoguism. She has published about 40 research works in both Russia and abroad. She is a participant, now a chief too, of investigation, international as well.
In June 2003, in Moscow, she successfully defended her PhD thesis Mental Abnormalities in the Patients Who Committed Serial Aggressive Dangerous Sexual Deeds: the Clinical Presentation, the Dynamics, the Systematics.
Since 1998 she has been teaching at the Psychiatry Department, Rostov State Medical University, and since 2005 she is employed as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law at the Southern State University.
She of herself: I can be characterized as a person whose heredity is overburdened with medical treatment and psychiatry. I am the fourth generation of doctors in the family. When I am asked how long I have been engaged in psychiatry, the answer is ‘Since I was 3’. I still remember myself and Mama visiting Pa during his attendance, and I, together with his patients, used to climb up the trees gathering apricots. Next time, a 5-year old girl, I was sitting at his practice listening to the patients’ complaints. Respect, sympathy, heartfulness, understanding attitude to patients were formed back in my younger years, and after I graduated and started my work I above all acquired professional skills.
I once had a dream to invent a medicine against Parkinson’s disease and heal my Granny Zhenia, yet I chose not neuroscience, but psychiatry, thus failing to make my dream a reality. In spite of this, I think Granny would be proud of me – both a doctor and a person.
Finally:
‘It’s time to stop expecting life to send us pennies from heaven, it’s time to make this life ourselves’. (Lev Tolstoy)
She’s simply wonderful, ideal.
There’s no other one like her.
And it’s so hard to adequately portray her,
Which is at times simply impossible.
She’s stirring and she’s dynamic;
She’s nice, oh, she’s so nice;
She’s also gentle-hearted,
Benevolent without a limit.
She’s a skilled doctor, an organizer,
And she’s the best in mental science!
Lydia Lazareva
