100 outstanding graduates (Mykhailo Oleksandrovych Yasynovskii)

Mykhailo Oleksandrovych Yasynovskii – a Ukrainian doctor, Honored Scientist of the Ukrainian SSR, member of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR. From 1943 to 1946 – the chief therapist of the Black Sea Fleet of the USSR.
Born on May 13, 1899 in Odessa. In 1922 he graduated from Odessa Medical Institute, and later stayed there to work at its therapeutic clinics.
From 1934 to 1956 he headed the university hospital, and from 1956 until the end of his life he was the head of the faculty therapeutic clinic of Odessa Medical Institute. At the same time, on a social basis, he headed the Department of Rheumatology of Odessa Research Institute of Spa Medicine and Physiotherapy.
In 1935 Mykhailo Oleksandrovych defended his doctoral dissertation which was dedicated to questions of Physiology, Pathology and Clinics of mucous membranes diseases.
During the Second World War, he was a consultant-therapist at the Kislovodsk hospital base and the head of the medical base of the hospital (1941-1942), from January 1943 and until the end of the war – a colonel of medical service.
Scientific works of Mykhailo Oleksandrovych were devoted to the study of viral hepatitis A, rheumatism, diseases of the hematopoietic organs, mucous membranes of the oral cavity, stomach, intestines, gall bladder.
He suggested methods of functional diagnostics, which are used in the evaluation of spa treatment. He also worked on the peculiarities of the development, treatment and prevention of circulatory failure in rheumatism and rheumatic heart defects are determined, methods of treatment of acute rheumatism, as well as the prevention of recurrence of this disease.
M. O. Yasynovskii also made a major contribution to military field therapy, he is one of the founders of domestic naval therapy.
In 1961 he was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR. Since 1963 he was an Academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR.
Interestingly, in Odessa there is a street named after Mykhailo Yasynovskii, and in our university, on the basis of the cardiocentre, there is a museum devoted to his activity and life path.