Dr. Anastasia Volkova

Education

Graduate: Samara State Medical University, General Medicine.

Fellowship: Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, Department of Medical Genetics, Course in Prenatal Diagnosis, Moscow.

Training courses and Board Certifications

• First International Conference on Reproductive Genetics: New PGD Techniques in ART Century
• Lectures on Genetic Techniques in Prenatal Diagnosis and New Hereditary Disease Diagnostic Methods arranged by the 2^nd National Scientific Practical Congress “New Hereditary Disease Diagnostic Methods”
• Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, Training Courses in Genetics
• Medical School, Course in Phenylketonuria and Hyperphenylalaninemia arranged by the 3d National Scientific Practical Congress “Orphan Diseases”
• Regular participation in national and international conferences on Genetics and Prenatal Diagnosis, participation in Congress for Pediatricians and National Scientific Educational Forum “Mother and Child”

Professional Skills

• medical and genetic counselling for families with a risk of having babies with hereditary and congenital pathologies;
• medical and genetic counselling for families planning pregnancy, on reproductive health issues, male and female infertility caused by genetic factors and repeated miscarriages;
• PGD counselling;
• PGD counselling for early detection and prevention of fetal malformations;
• Clinical diagnosis of hereditary syndrome pathologies.

Areas of Interest and Research

• Syndromology
• Reproductive Medicine
• Prenatal (Pre-birth) Fetal Malformation Diagnosis

Society Memberships

Russian Society of Medical Geneticists