From the bottom of my heart, I thank rheumatologist Ekaterina Leonchik — this is a doctor who changes your quality of life. For many years I lived with ankylosing spondylitis, going through pain and t...
Katherine Leonchik
- Specialty: General Practitioner
- Work experience: 9 years
- Patients: Adults and children
- Languages: Russian•English
- Consultation Fee: 640 AED

About me:
Leonchik Ekaterina Vladimirovna is a family doctor, therapist and rheumatologist.
I specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the joints and connective tissue, including systemic autoimmune pathologies known as rheumatic diseases.
Professional competencies:
- Diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases of the joints and musculoskeletal system
- Diagnosis and treatment of systemic connective tissue diseases and their complications, including autoimmune diseases
- Ultrasound diagnostics of joints, including children and adults
- Diagnosis and treatment of feet
- Selection of individual insoles
- Diagnostic joint punctures under ultrasound control
- Intra-articular and periarticular administration of drugs, also under ultrasound control
- Paravertebral blocks
- Therapeutic kinesiotaping
Education:
- Belarusian State Medical University, Faculty of General Medicine
- Clinical residency in rheumatology at the Belarusian State Medical University
Certificates:
- Shock wave therapy (Zimmer Medizin Systeme, Germany)
- Interventional Pain Management (ProAcadmy, UAE) and Internal Medicine (Open Medical Institute, Austria)
- Ultrasound examination of the joints of the upper and lower extremities (Republican Center for Medical Rehabilitation and Balneotherapy, Belarus)
Participation in congresses:
- EULAR Congress, London, 2026
- Middle East Rheumatology Conference, Dubai, 2025
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Disease Burden, Dubai, 2025
- European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR), Madrid, 2019
- World Congress of Gastroenterology, Istanbul, 2019
- Leiden International Medical Student Conference, Leiden, Netherlands, 2015
- 16th International Congress of Medical Sciences for Students and Young Doctors, Sofia, Bulgaria
- The 8th Enthesitis Summit and 5th Wave of ERA-MSUS Course, Dubai: Training in Musculoskeletal Ultrasound
Membership in professional societies:
- Emirates Medical Association
- EULAR (European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology)
- Association of Rheumatologists of Russia
- Belarusian Society of Rheumatologists
Publications:
- Reappraisal of the Concept of Accelerated Aging in Neurodegeneration and Beyond — Cells, 2023;12(20):2451
- Reappraisal of Concept of Accelerated Brain Ageing with Precision Medicine Approach — Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 2023;455:122661
- ASIA Syndrome — Healthcare, 2023;2:39-46
- Candidate Biomarkers of Pathologic Brain Aging — Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 2023;445:121941
- Drug-Induced Liver Injury After NSAIDs-Therapy in Gouty Arthritis — Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology, 2019;30(3):S210
- Risk of Drug-Induced Liver Injury to NSAIDs in Patients with Gout — Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 2018;2:AB1024
- Risk Group for Hepatotoxicity of NSAIDs Among Patients with Gout — Scientific and Practical Rheumatology, IV Eurasian Congress of Rheumatologists, Москва, 2018;3(2):56
- Association Between Genetic Factors of Osteoporosis and FRAX Calculated Ten-Year Fracture Probability — Osteoporosis International, 2017;28(1):OCs2
- Comparative Analysis of Estimating Equations of Renal Function in Patients with Osteoarthritis — Practicing Doctor, Kyiv, 2017;6(3):15-19
- Elastification of the arterial wall by high-intensity low-frequency ultrasound - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus - 2023; 67(4)
Scientific and expert activities:
- Implementation documents for optimizing patient care in therapeutic departments of hospitals in the Republic of Belarus (Mogilev, Minsk)
- Participation in the adaptation of FRAX (WHO fracture risk assessment scale) for Belarus
- Medical consultant for the Sens MD app (COVID-19 symptom tracking) and chronic pain app
- Participates in the training of language models (AI) in the medical field
- Participation in ASPIRE projects by ATRC (Advanced Technology Research Council), Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Grant from the Belarusian Republican Foundation for Fundamental Research
- Scientific activity within the framework of the Republican Rheumatology Center of the Republic of Belarus
Experience
- Has been practicing since 2017
- She worked as a general practitioner in the emergency department, as well as a rheumatologist in public hospitals and private medical centers in Minsk.
- She worked as a research fellow in the field of fundamental medicine in Minsk and as a research fellow in the field of neurophysiology in Abu Dhabi.
DHA License: No. 17189166-001
Patient reviews
Came in with joint pain. Ekaterina quickly identified the direction, adjusted the treatment, and the pain was gone. An attentive, responsible rheumatologist.
Dr. Leonchik manages my autoimmune condition competently — without extra drugs, with dynamic monitoring. You can feel a doctor who actually follows the patient rather than just prescribing pills.
Did a general check-up. Ekaterina took a thorough history, ordered the right tests and competently interpreted them. You can feel a systematic approach.