Valentyn Serdyuk

Valentyn Serdyuk (date of birth July 9, 1942) — Ukrainian scientist, Prof MD of Traumatology and Orthopedic Surgery in Odessa National Medical University. Honored Inventor of Ukraine.

In 1966, after graduating from Odessa Medical Institute (now ONMedU ), received his medical degree "with honors". In 1975 he defended his PhD thesis, and in 1986 - his doctorate thesis.

Professor Valentyn Serdyuk developed new medical tools, treatments, devices, which received 40 patents and 72 certificates for innovations. He is the author of a new direction in the surgical treatment of patients with injuries of big joints, complicated with development of purulent infection, using physiotherapy (magneto-acoustic therapy). In 1982 he received the honorary title "Honored inventor of the Ukraine". Between 1987 and 1989  he was awarded one gold, two silver and two bronze medals of Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy of the USSR. In 1993 he was elected an academician of the Ukrainian Academy of Original Ideas.

Fundamental work of Valentin Serdyuk in vertebrology, dedicated to scoliosis, led to the discovery of the mechanism of its development and the development of highly conservative method of treatment of children and teenagers. The effectiveness of the treatment of gunshot wounds to the extremities with purulent complications and venous ulcers, including diabetic origin, greatly enhanced through the use of original physiotherapy (magnetic devices).

In 1995 he received a diploma for scientific discovery in vertebrology number HB 1, issued by the Ukrainian International Academy of Original Ideas. The name of the discovery was: " Dependence of diseases of adults from spinal deformity in childhood". In 2008 he received a second diploma for scientific discovery in vertebrology number HB 5. The name of the discovery was: "The regularity of formation of scoliotic spinal deformity from instability in all its departments related to asymmetric function of the cerebral hemispheres".

The book "Scoliosis and spinal pain syndrome : new understanding of their origin and ways of successful treatment " is in the library of:

• The Library of the Royal College of Surgeons
• The Library of the British Scoliosis Association (London)
• The British Library
• Library of Congress
• The National Library of Medicine (Bethesda,N.Y., USA)
• The Library of the Medical University "Charite"

• Спеціалізовану БД «Винаходи (корисні моделі) в Україні»
• Сердюк В. В. Сухин Ю. В. О природе возникновения различных заболеваний человека и их связи с деформациями позвоночника / В. В. Сухин Ю. В. Сердюк // Науковий вісник Міжнародного гуманітарного університету. Сер. : Медицина. Фармація . — 2012. — Вип. 3. — С.10
• Сердюк Валентин Викторович