The 60th anniversary of professor Yu. A. Knyazev

Abstract

On June 10, 1994, the well-known pediatrician-endocrinologist Yuri Alexandrovich Knyazev, doctor of medical sciences, professor, honored scientist of the Russian Federation, head of the endocrinology and metabolism department of the Russian State Medical University, turned 60.
 After graduating with honors from the Kursk Feldsher-Midwifery School and the Kursk State Medical Institute, Yu. A. Knyazev specializes in residency and postgraduate studies at 11 Moscow Medical Institute for Pediatrics and Pediatric Endocrinology. Candidate (1963) and doctoral (1969) dissertations are devoted to questions of pathogenesis, clinic, and treatment of diabetes in children. At the age of 36, Yu. A. Knyazev was awarded the academic title of professor of pediatrics.
 Yu. A. Knyazev organized a hormone-exchange diagnostic laboratory, which was a branch of the Central Scientific Research Laboratory II MMM named after N. I. Pirogov on the basis of pediatric clinics of the Children's Clinical Hospital No. 1 (Morozovskaya). Yu. A. Knyazev was at the forefront of domestic pediatric endocrinology, clinical biochemistry, headed the pediatric endocrinological service of Kursk and Moscow; on his initiative, a specialized kindergarten-nursery was first created, medical institutions for endocrinological patients were organized, the principles of which were approved in many regions of the country. As the chairman of the Union, Republican, and interagency commissions on pediatric endocrinology, Yu. A. Knyazev integrates scientific research in this area.