Vladimir Litvinov

Clinical interests

• Specializes in diagnosis of causes and treatment of female infertility and infertility in couples, including the use of IVF
• Reproductive surgery and gynecological endoscopy (laparoscopy, hysteroscopy, fertiloscopy)
• Ultrasounic gynecological diagnostics.

Education

• 1983 - graduated from the Medical University of Crimea. Internship specialised in maieutics and gynecology in Norilsk (Krasnoyarsk region).
• 1987-1989 – clinical residency in maieutics and gynecology at the Medical University of Crimea. From 1989 till 1993 worked as an obstetrician-gynecologist in the Regional Clinical Hospital of Semashko.
• 1999 – Ph.D. on the subject of 'replaceable hormonal therapy in women with extirpation of the uterus, resulting from relaparotomy of peritonitis'.

Achievements

• 1993-2001 - Chief of the interregional center of family planning and human reproduction (Simferopol city). This inclluded the first IVF laboratory in the Crimea, with the first "testtube baby" born in 1994.
• Member of the Russian Association of Human Reproduction, Russian Society of Endoscopic Surgeons, Russian Association of Gynecologists and Endoscopists, European Society of Human reproduction and Embyology (ESHRE).