Head of the department prof. Zhuravlyova L.V. took part in the defense of the dissertation as an official opponent of Valentina Vasylivna Yuskevich’s dissertation “Clinical and immunological characteristics of the course of rheumatoid arthritis with Borrelia-associated infection and dysbiosis of the intestinal microbiota: optimization of diagnosis and treatment”, submitted for defense to the specialized scientific council of the DF 58.601.085 , which was formed in accordance with the order of the rector of the Ternopil National Medical University named after I.Ya. of the year with the right to accept for consideration and conduct the defense of a dissertation for obtaining the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the field of knowledge 22 “Health care” in the specialty 222 “Medicine”