Vosit Vohidov

Vosit Vohidovich Vohidov (13 December 1917 to 1 June 1994) was an Uzbek-Soviet surgeon, scientist and founder of the school of specialized surgical care in Uzbekistan. Born into a peasant family in the village of Chaga near the city of Turkestan, he graduated from the Tashkent Medical Institute in 1939, defended a dissertation on the function of the pancreas in purulent diseases in 1950, and a doctoral thesis on pleural adhesions and their vessels in the pulmonary circulation in 1962. He headed the department of hospital surgery at the Tashkent medical university and founded the Tashkent branch of the All-Union Research Center for Surgery, which he directed until the end of his life. He wrote more than 180 scientific works covering diseases of the lung, mediastinum, biliary tract, liver, stomach, heart and the large vessels of the legs, trained 15 doctors and 60 candidates of sciences, and received the Order of Lenin in 1976.