Abstract

The article is devoted to the outstanding scientist-neurologist, Doctor of medical sciences, honored doctor of the Republic of Belarus, honorary academician of the Belarusian Academy of Medical Sciences, Professor Boris Vladimirovich Drivotinov. The article presents the main stages of biography and scientific way of professor B.V. Drivotinov, his merits in the development of Belarusian scientific-pedagogical school and practical medicine are marked. B. V. Drivotinov was the founder of Belarusian scientific and pedagogical school of vertebrooneurology; he participated in the development of clinical classification of peripheral nervous system diseases. The scientist created a new direction in neurological science associated with the development and substantiation of autoimmune pathogenesis of spinal osteochondrosis and its clinical manifestations. For the first time, he applied computational cybernetic methods for early diagnosis, prediction of the severity of the course and outcome of neurological manifestations of spinal osteochondrosis and other diseases of the nervous system. Professor B.V. Drivotinov was a reformer and innovator in the field of neurological practice and education.

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