100 Outstanding Graduates (Lev Vasyliovych Gromashevskii)

Lev Vasyliovych Gromashevskii headed the Department of Epidemiology from 1923 to 1928. At the same time, from 1924 to 1928 he was the head of the Department of Social Hygiene and the rector of Odessa Medical Institute.
In 1904, he entered the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Novorossiysk University, and in 1906 he transfered to the Faculty of Medicine.
His medical activities began as an “epidemic” doctor, who was invited to district provinces to fight epidemics. Lev Vasyliovych also participated in the fight against plague epidemics in Manchuria and worked in a hospital for infectious patients at the front of the First World War.
In 1920, D. K. Zabolotnyi invited him as a senior assistant to the first independent Department of Epidemiology in the world created in Odesa. By that time, L.V. Gromashevskii was already an experienced epidemiologist.
Since 1928, Lev Vasyliovych was the director of Dnipropetrovsk Sanitary and Bacteriological Institute and organizer of the Central Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Moscow. In 1944 when the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR was created L.V. Gromashevsky was included in its membership as a full member, and in 1948 he was entrusted with the organization of the Institute of Infectious Diseases of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences in Kyiv. For many years L.V. Gromashevskii was also a deputy director of the scientific department of Kiev Institute of Epidemiology, Microbiology and Parasitology, being named after him now. He was a senior assistant and then the head of the Department of Epidemiology in Odessa, the founder of the Department of Epidemiology in Dnipropetrovsk and the first Head of the Department of Epidemiology at the Central Institute for the Improvement of Physicians in Moscow.
For many years, has headed the Department of Epidemiology of Kiev Medical Institute, having given over 40 years of his pedagogical work to the higher medical school. He wrote a coursebook on General Epidemiology (1941 – 1965) and a basic manual on Private Epidemiology (L.V. Gromashevskii, G.M. Vayndrakh, M., 1947). The most complete form the scientific concept of L.V. Gromashevsky about the epidemic process and its driving forces is given in these books.
From 1941 to 1945 he was the chief epidemiologist of the Transcaucasian and Crimean fronts, as well as of the Moscow Military District.
From 1948 to 1951 – Director of the Institute of Infectious Diseases of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences.
From 1951 to 1963 he was the head of the department of epidemiology of Kiev Medical Institute.
Academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR (1944), Honored Scientist of the Ukrainian SSR (1957), Hero of Socialist Labor (1967). His contribution to medical education and science is difficult to exaggerate, so we believe that he is an outstanding graduate of our wonderful Alma-Mater.