Balashova Tatiana

Biography

In 1987 she graduated from the Crimean Medical Institute, beginning a residency with a concentration in «otorhinolarynoglogist-physician» on the premises of the ENT Department of the Kherson Oblast Hospital and the Kherson Oblast Children's Hospital. Beginning in 1996, she performed a residency in the Department of ENT-diseases of the Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education (RMAPE) and graduated early, with honors, in 1998, a pupil of Professor V. S. Pogosov, a guru of otorhinolaryngology in Russian and around the world. In 2000, at RSMU, she defended her candidate’s dissertation on «Laryngostomy in laryngeal cancer patients» and became the creator of a patented method of laryngostomy, which includes a unique method for preventing hair growth in the larynx when operations are performed for laryngostomy and laryngectomy. She has devoted twenty-seven years of professional activity to surgical and conservative treatment of child and adult ENT pathologies.  She periodically takes increased qualification courses: «Trauma and diseases of ENT organs and emergency care in ENT practice» (at the Kharkiv Institute for Doctors’ Improvement, 1992), «Selected Issues in ENT» (Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, 1998), «Otorhinolaryngology» (Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, 2000, 2005), «Endoscopic Sinus Surgery» (Kursk State Medical University, 2007, on the premises of the ENT department of the Kursk Oblast Hospital), «Selected Issues in Oncology» (Institute of Increased Qualification of the Federal Biomedical Agency of Russia, 2010). She has mastered the procedures of Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery (FESS). She has performed several thousand operations on adults and children, including reconstructive operations for rebuilding the ENT organs. Member of the Moscow Society of Otorhinolaryngologists. A constant participant of Russian and international medical conferences. She is author of patents on methods for reconstructive operations on the external ear. She has eleven printed works in medical periodicals.

Research Interest

The entirety of surgical ENT treatment, reconstructive and regenerative ENT surgery, and surgical and conservative treatment of the full spectrum of ENT diseases.