The path from a student of a rural school to a known in the country professor of a pediatricist-infectionist

Abstract

In August 2023, Vladimir Nikolaevich Timchenko, dean of the pediatric faculty of the St. Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University of the Russian Ministry of Health, and head of the Department of Infectious Diseases in Children named after Vladimir Nikolaevich, turned 70 years old. Professor M.G. Danilevich, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Honored Doctor of Russia, Chief freelance specialist in infectious diseases in children of the Northwestern Federal District of the country. V.N. Timchenko after graduating from LPMI with honors in 1978, he entered clinical residency at the Department of Infectious Diseases in Children. Between 1980 and 1983 studied full-time graduate school at the same department. In 1983 he successfully defended his candidate’s dissertation, and in 1989 — his doctoral dissertation. He has headed the department since 1997. Under the leadership of the head of the department, comprehensive studies of infectious diseases in children have been conducted for many years. Vladimir Nikolaevich is the scientific supervisor of ten candidate dissertations, the scientific consultant of one doctoral dissertation. He regularly gives lectures and reports in children’s clinics, at congresses, conferences, and symposiums. Consults seriously ill patients from the Leningrad, Novgorod, Pskov, Kaliningrad Regions, the Republic of Karelia and other regions of the country. Author of more than 530 scientific papers. The administration, public organizations, staff and students of the University wish the professor further great creative success in the training and education of young doctors, good health and personal well-being, inexhaustible energy and prosperity.