Andrey Vasilyevich Petakh works as a surgeon in the Department of Microvascular and Plastic Surgery of the National Institute of Surgery and Transplantology named after N.N. A.A. Shalimova of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine.

In 1998 Petakh Andrey Vasilievich graduated with honors from the medical faculty of Uzhgorod State University.

From 1998 to 2000, he successfully completed an internship in surgery and received a recommendation from the Academic Council of the University for further postgraduate work.

In the period 2000-2002. studied in clinical residency in surgery on the basis of KMAPE named after. P.L. Shupika (Kyiv) In 2004-2006 Petakh A.V. – Laureate of the scholarship of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine for young scientists A.A. Shalimova of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine. He defended his thesis on the topic: "Surgical treatment of patients with complex and extensive defects in the tissues of the head." He is the author and co-author of more than 65 scientific publications in such publications as: "Surgery of Ukraine", "Transplantology", "Clinical Surgery", "Annals of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery", "Plastic Surgery and Aesthetic Dermatology", etc., more 15 patents of Ukraine.

Conducted courses of specialization, internship: Aesthetic surgery of the face, reduction mammoplasty, augmentation mammoplasty, abdominoplasty, liposuction" Moscow, 2001 (under the guidance of N.O. Milanov) "Augmentation mammoplasty" Moscow, 2002 (under the direction of P.Heden Specialization in otolaryngology, Kyiv Military Medical Academy, 2004-2005 Specialization in vascular surgery, KMAPO, 2005 "Augmentation mammoplasty" Kyiv, 2006 (under the direction of P.Heden) "Modern methods of reduction and prosthetics of the female breast" Kyiv, 2006 (under the direction of L.Ribeiro) "Aesthetic breast surgery…" Milano, Italy 2006 (supervised by M.Nava) "Aesthetic facial surgery" Kyiv, 2007 (supervised by D.Marshak, A.E. Belousov) "Functional and aesthetic rhinoseptoplasty" Odessa, 2007 (supervised by K .P. Pshenisnova) Courses of specialization in angiography and X-ray endovascular surgery, KMAPE, Kyiv, 1999, 2007 "Postgraduate course in aesthetic and plastic surgery " Seoul, Korea, 2007 (under the direction of B. Mendelson) Participation in congresses, conferences, symposiums: II International Congress on Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery OPREH, Moscow, 2001 3rd Congress of the Association of Surgeons. NI Pirogova, Moscow, 2001 I Congress of Lymphologists of Russia, Moscow, 2003 Slovak Symposium of Plastic Surgery Koshitse, 2003 IV Congress on Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery with international participation. Yaroslavl, -2003 XVIII Congress of the European Association for Cranio-maxillofacial Surgery - EACMFS Barcelona, ​​2006 18th congress of the Internationa Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 2006 The Aesthetic Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, New York, 2007 I , II Congress of Plastic, Reconstructive, Aesthetic Surgeons of Ukraine, Kyiv, 2004, 2008 11th Congress of Italian and American Plastic Surgeons, Bologna, Italy, 2008