About Me

Expertise in Children’s Health

You can count on Oleksandr Kachanov, MD, a pediatrician at Avera Medical Group Pediatrics in Aberdeen, SD, to provide the care your child needs to stay healthy and active.

Dr. Kachanov offers comprehensive children’s health care for newborns to young adults up to 21 years of age. Services include:

  • Late prematurity care
  • Newborn care
  • Well-child checkups
  • Vaccinations
  • Preventive screenings
  • Adolescent care

In addition, Dr. Kachanov takes time to help you and your child learn more about how to develop healthy habits and prevent sickness.

Pediatric Critical Care Provider

If your child is critically ill, on life support or lives with a complex health condition, you can trust Dr. Kachanov’s specialty training in pediatric critical care medicine. With this additional fellowship training, he is equipped to care for children in critical condition.

Active Lifestyle

In his free time, Dr. Kachanov enjoys spending time with his family, traveling, playing chess and breeding a variety of warm-water fish.

Dr. Kachanov also speaks fluently in Hebrew, Ukranian and Russian.

Experience

Education

Kharkov Medical University, Kharkov, Ukraine, Medical School

Internships

Soroka Medical Center and Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheba, Israel, Pediatrics

Residency

District Pediatric Hospital #1, Kharkov, Ukraine, Pediatrics and Neonatology

Advocate Children's Hospital, Park Ridge, IL, Pediatrics

Fellowship

Advocate Children's Hospital, Park Ridge, IL, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Certifications

American Board of Pediatrics

Reviews

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April 20, 2024
Having another baby in a week and definitely going with this same provider
February 15, 2024
Dr. Kachanov has always been great at making sure to explain things thoroughly and making sure all of my questions are answered before we leave without making us feel rushed.

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