Violetta Florova

International Medical Graduate with 5+ years of clinical experience in Obstetrics& Gynecology (Russia) and 3 years of translational research experience (USA). Currently MATCH 2024 participant. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.

• USMLE Step 1, PASSED
• USMLE Step 2, 232
• ECFMG Certified, 11/2023
• TOEFL 103 points 01/2024

• 09/17/2018, Microbiome Research Day, SUNY, Buffalo, The denitrification pathways in microbiome: how can we get benefits from anaerobic bacteria?, Selected oral talk
• 04/24/2017, 04/26/2017, 1st World Congress on Maternal Fetal Neonatal Medicine, London, Psychosomatic status of pregnant women with arterial hypertension and obesity, Poster presentation
• 03/08/2017, 03/12/2017, The 9th International DIP Symposium on Diabetes, Hypertension, Metabolic Syndrome & Pregnancy, Barcelona, Spain, The preeclampsia and chronic arterial hypertension: the risk of maternal and neonatal adverse outcomes, Poster presentation

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Perinatology Research Branch-NICHD/NIH, Hutzel Women’s Hospital, Detroit, MI, 07/2019, 07/2020, Taking part in the studying the causal relationship of vaginal microbiome and immune mediators in preterm birth, Performing statistical analysis and linear mixed effect model analysis (R-studio, Excel), Laboratory experience: culture of low bacterial biomass samples (placenta, blood) under sterile condition, sampling the placenta for further microbiological analysis under sterile condition
• Visiting Researcher, Department of Biochemistry/Bioinformatics, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 08/2017, 05/2018, Taking part in the research project “Pilot Study of the Placental, Oral and Gut Microbiome”, Investigating of placental microbiome composition: 16S OTU picking (QIIME, Linux), Statistical analysis (Excel)
• Clinical Fellow, Maternal-Fetal-Medicine Department, Maternity Hospital named after Yudina, Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia, 09/2016, 05/2017, Evaluating the efficiency of early detection of sFLT and PIGF markers in group of pregnant women with chronic hypertension

• (ENG) MATERNAL-FETAL IMMUNE RESPONSES IN PREGNANT WOMEN INFECTED WITH SARS-COV-2, Valeria Garcia-Flores, Roberto Romero, Yi Xu, Kevin R. Theis, Marcia Arenas-Hernandez, Derek Miller, Azam Peyvandipour, Gaurav Bhatti, Jose Galaz, Meyer Gershater, Dustyn Levenson, Errile Pusod, Li Tao, David Kracht, Violetta Florova, Yaozhu Leng, Kenichiro Motomura, Robert Para, Megan Faucett, Chaur-Dong Hsu, Gary Zhang, Adi L. Tarca, Roger Pique-Regi, Nardhy Gomez-Lopez, Nat Commun, 13, 320, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27745-z
• (ENG) SNEATHIA: AN EMERGING PATHOGEN IN FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE DISEASE AND ADVERSE PERINATAL OUTCOMES, Kevin R. Theis, Violetta Florova, Roberto Romero, Andrei B. Borisov, Andrew D. Winters, Jose Galaz, Nardhy Gomez-Lopez, Critical Reviews in Microbiology, 47, 4, 517-542, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1080/1040841X.2021.1905606
• (ENG) VAGINAL HOST IMMUNE-MICROBIOME INTERACTIONS IN A COHORT OF PRIMARILY AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN WHO ULTIMATELY UNDERWENT SPONTANEOUS PRETERM BIRTH OR DELIVERED AT TERM, Violetta Florova, Roberto Romero, Adi L Tarca, Jose Galaz, Kenichiro Motomura, Madison M Ahmad, Chaur-Dong Hsu, Richard Hsu, Anna Tong, Jacques Ravel, Kevin R Theis, Nardhy Gomez-Lopez, Cytokine, 2021/11, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cyto.2020.155316
• (ENG) MICROBIAL BURDEN AND INFLAMMASOME ACTIVATION IN AMNIOTIC FLUID OF PATIENTS WITH PRETERM PRELABOR RUPTURE OF MEMBRANES, Theis KR, Romero R, Motomura K, Galaz J, Winters AD, Pacora P, Miller D, Slutsky R, Florova V, Levenson D, Para R, Journal of Perinatal Medicine, 2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jpm-2019-0398
• (ENG) EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES IN BLOOD, MILK AND BODY FLUIDS OF THE FEMALE AND MALE UROGENITAL TRACT AND WITH SPECIAL REGARD TO REPRODUCTION, Foster BP, Balassa T, Benen TD, Dominovic M, Elmadjian GK, Florova V, Markert UR, Critical Reviews in Clinical Laboratory Sciences Journal, 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10408363.2016.1190682
• (RUS) POSTBIRTH DEPRESSION: A NEW VIEW ON THE PROBLEM, Ignatko I.V., Kinkulkina Ma., Florova V.S., Skandaryan Aa., Kukina P.I., Matsneva I.A., Pereverzina N.O., Smirnova A.V., Issues of gynecology, obstetrics and perinatology, 17, 1, 45-53, 2018
• (RUS) PREDICTION OF THE SYNDROME OF DELAY OF FETUS GROWTH AT PREGNANT HIGH RISK, Strizhakov A.N., Mirushchenko M.M., Ignatko I.V., Popova N.G., Florova V.S., Kuznetsov A.S., Obstetrics and gynecology, 7, 34-44, 2017
• (RUS) NEONATAL NEAR MISS - "BADLY NOT DIED" NEWBORNS: CRITERIA OF EVALUATION AND IMPORTANCE IN PERINATAL AUDIT, Ignatko I.V., Rodionova A.M., Kardanova M.A., Bogomazova I.M., Samusevich A.N., Florova V.S., Kuznetsov A.S., Popova N.G., Kuznetsova E. .AT., Issues of gynecology, obstetrics and perinatology, 16, 2, 40-48, 2017
• (RUS) ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA FOR THE CRITICAL CONDITION OF THE FETUS, Kardanova M.A., Ignatko I.V., Strizhakov A.N., Bogomazova I.M., Florova V.S., Doctor.Ru, 7 (136), 38-42, 2017
• (RUS) THE ROLE OF BIOCHEMICAL MARKERS IN THE RISK STRATIFICATION FOR DEVELOPMENT OF PREECLAMPSIA: THE CLINICIAN’S VIEW, Ignatko I.V., Florova V.S., Kuznetsov A.S., Kuzina E.Yu., Archive of obstetrics and gynecology, 4, 4, 181-186, 2017
• (RUS) THE PROPHYLAXIS OF ADVERSE PERINATAL OUTCOMES OF PLACENTAL INSUFFICIENCY AND FETAL GROWTH RESTRICTION, Budanov PV, Churganova AA, Musaev ZM, Florova VS, Khramova LS, Pitskhelauri EG, Medical advice, 12, 34-39, 2016, 10.21518 / 2079-701X-2016-12-34-39
• (RUS) THE EFFECT OF PSYCHOSOCIAL STRESS ON PREGNANCY AND THE FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE OFFSPRING (THE EXAMPLE OF AN EXPERIMENTAL MODEL), Chekhonin V.P., Florova V.S., Budanov P.V., Zubkov E.A, The journal ”Health&education millennium”, 17, 1, 2015

• Medical University “REAVIZ” and IVF-private clinic, Samara, Russia, Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility Training, doctor Sosnova, 08/2020
• St. George Hospital, Maternal-Fetal-Medicine Department, London, UK, Observership program, Prof. Basky Thilaganathan, 06/04/2017, 06/28/2017
• University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Conventional Freezing of Human Ovarian Tissue, CAM-Xenotransplantation of Tissues, Prof. Vladimir Isachenko, 07/29/2015, 07/31/2015
• Jena University, Placenta Labor, Jena, Germany, International Training in Reproductive Sciences and Technologies, Prof. Udo Markert, 03/23/2014, 03/29/2014