Daria Yakunina will head the Ulyanovsk Regional Children's Hospital

From October 1, the chief doctor of the Ulyanovsk Regional Children's Clinical Hospital named after Yu.F. Goryachev will be Daria Yakunina. Prior to her appointment, she worked as Deputy Chief Physician of the Children’s City Clinical Hospital.

Yakunina will replace Anna Minaeva, who left the post at the end of August in connection with the move to Moscow.

Daria Yakunina received medical education at Ulyanovsk State University, where she graduated from the specialty “Medicine and Pediatrics”, and then residency in pediatrics. She held an internship in neurology at Samara State Medical University.

Yakunina began working in medicine in 2002 as a nurse in the Ulyanovsk Central District Hospital. After graduation, she returned there as a pediatrician, and later headed the pediatric department.

Later Yakunina worked as a precinct pediatrician in the Central City Clinical Hospital of Ulyanovsk and headed the children's department of the polyclinic. The last place of work before the new appointment was the Children's City Clinical Hospital, where she held the position of Deputy Chief Physician.