Lyubov Mala: Doctor of Medical Sciences

2000, National Television Company of Ukraine. A program about the Hero of Ukraine, Ukrainian scientist and physician Lyubov Mala.

The video includes: screensavers, the National Institute of Therapy of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine in Kharkiv (now the L. Mala National Institute of Therapy of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine), photos from the personal archive, working moments, laboratories, offices of the institute, wards, medical equipment. An interview with Liubov Mala about her work (cardiovascular diseases), career, love for patients, the profession of a doctor, and the creation of the institute.

Comments: Yevhen Nikolenko, MD, PhD; Volodymyr Volkov, MD, PhD, Professor; Oleksandr Tveretynov, Deputy Director, Honored Doctor of Ukraine.

Reference: Liubov Trokhymivna Mala (January 13, 1919 - April 14, 2003) was a prominent Ukrainian physician, therapist and cardiologist, Doctor of Medicine, Professor, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Honored Scientist of the Ukrainian SSR and Hero of Ukraine. She founded the Institute of Therapy in Kharkiv and was the first to introduce a system of staged treatment of myocardial infarction in Ukraine, and trained more than 200 candidates and doctors of sciences. On her initiative, cardiology departments were organized throughout the country, and the Institute of Therapy now bears her name.