ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE 90TH BIRTHDAY OF PROFESSOR DMITRY CHEBOTAREV

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To the Editor: On September 17, 1998, the prominent Ukrainian gerontologist and therapist, Professor Dmitry F. Chebotarev, will mark his 90th birthday and 65 years of scientific activity. From 1961 to 1987, Prof. Chebotarev served as Director of the Institute of Gerontology, where his activities have contributed to making the Institute one of the world's leading centers of research into the mechanisms of aging and longevity. The major research activities of Prof. Chebotarev have been in the fields of clinical physiology and internal organ pathology in older people, older age-related pharmacotherapy, and active prevention of premature aging. These works have opened new doors in the world of gerontological science. Under his supervision, new medico-social services for older people have been developed and implemented. Prof. D.F. Chebotarev is the author of more than 400 published works, including 23 monographs, handbooks, and manuals in gerontology and geriatrics. Twenty-eight book collections of the Institute of Gerontology have been widely recognized. Prof. Chebotarev is also a Full Member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Medical Academies of Science of Ukraine and Russia, a State Prize Laureate, an Honoured Scientist of Ukraine, and the recipient of the Strazhesko Award from the National Academy of Sciences and the Botkin Award from the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. The activities of Prof. D.F. Chebotarev, both as a scientist and as an organizer of research in gerontology and geriatrics, carry great authority worldwide. He was elected President of the 9th International Congress of Gerontology, held in Kiev in 1972. Between 1972 and 1975, he was President of the International Association of Gerontology. For many years he served as an adviser to the World Health Organization and United Nations Department of Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs. He is an honorary member of the German Academy of Natural Science, “Leopoldina”, an honorary member of the national gerontological societies of Germany, Bulgaria, Hungary, Chile, and Poland and other countries, and a member of editorial boards of gerontological journals in Germany, Great Britain, and the US. He has been awarded several medals, including the Fritz Verzar Medal of the International Association of Gerontology and the honorary medals of the American Geriatrics Society and the societies of physicians of the German Democratic Republic, Bulgaria, Karlova University in Chekhia, the Semmelweis University in Budapest, and others. At the present time, Prof. D.F. Chebotarev, Scientist Emeritus, continues to work as a scientific consultant at the Institute of Gerontology and supervises research into human aging and age-related pathology, accelerated aging mechanisms, and approaches to its prevention.