100 Outstanding Graduates (Lobanovskiy Hlib Ivanovych)

Lobanovskiy Hlib Ivanovych – Ukrainian doctor-dermatologist, doctor of medical sciences, professor.
After graduating from Odessa Medical Institute, he worked as a dermatovenereologist of Kalarash district of Moldavian SSR.
In 1962 he became in a clinical resident, and later – a post-graduate student, an assistant of the department of skin and venereal diseases at the Odessa Medical Institute. Later he defended his Ph.D. dissertation ” Skin Lesions Caused by Decalcifiers”, and then a doctor’s thesis on the topic: “Changes in the skin and mucous membranes under the influence of chemicals in the workers of the Black Sea, Azov, Danube shipping companies”.
For 28 years he headed the Department of Skin and Venereal Diseases of Odessa Medical Institute.
In 1976 he was awarded the honorary title of a professor.
Hlib Ivanovych studied professional dermatoses caused by paint and varnish materials in the marine region, the role of reactivity of the organism in the pathogenesis of allergic dermatoses, neurodermatitis, viral dermatoses; participated in the improvement of therapy and sanatorium treatment of the most common chronic dermatoses; search for more effective methods of treatment and prevention of STDs.
Lobanovskiy Hlib Ivanovych is the author of more than 300 scientific works, including more than 100 innovative proposals, 20 methodological recommendations and newsletters, and ten inventions. He was also a member of the editorial board of the journal “Dermatovenereology, Cosmetology, Sexopathology”, as well as an expert of the Higher Attestation Commission of Ukraine in the specialty “Skin and Sexually Transmitted Diseases”.
Under his editorship 3 teaching aids were issued: “Skin and Venereal Diseases” (co-authors – Zelinska L.I., Lebediuk M.M., Fedchuk V.P.), “AstroPrint”, and “Dermatovenerology”.
Professor Lobanovsky actively advocated the innovative method of PCR in the diagnosis of sexually transmitted diseases.
Gleb Ivanovich devoted his life to medicine and assistance to people, and during the 44 years of his work he made a significant contribution to the development of medicine, in particular Dermatovenereology as a science.