Alisa Chebotarova, MD, PhD

Alisa Chebotarova, MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Molecular Cell Biology and a module co-director for Molecules to Medicine (first semester) at the AUC School of Medicine, SXM. Dr. Chebotarova graduated with an MD in Pediatrics from Luhansk State Medical University in Ukraine in 2008. She completed an internship in General Pediatrics in 2010. In 2016, she earned her PhD in Medical Biochemistry with a dissertation titled "Role of Apoptosis in the Differentiation and Homing of Mesenchymal Stem Cells." Since 2016, Dr. Chebotarova has taught Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, and Genetics at several Caribbean medical schools in St. Maarten, Barbados, and Anguilla. She joined the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine in May 2022, where she teaches in modules including Molecules to Medicine, Hematology and Oncology, Attack and Defense, Gastrointestinal and Nutrition, and Endocrinology and Reproduction.