P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Hoshimov, Javod

Tajik physician Javod Mamedovich Hoshimov was born in Samar-

qand on November 11, 1914. He joined the CPSU in 1963.

Hoshimov graduated from Samarqand State Medical Institute in

1936. From 1936 to 1942, he interned at the Dushanbe Hospital for In-

fectious Diseases. Then, between 1942 and 1950, he was a Lecturer,

and from 1951 until 1953, he was Assistant Professor of Infectious Dis-

eases at the Tajik State Medical Institute. From 1953 to the end of his

life, he was the Director of the Department of Infectious Diseases of the

same institute. He received his doctorate degree in medicine in 1967

and became a professor in 1968.

His contributions include "Klinichekie osobennosti briushnogo tifa v

poslednie godi," Zdravo-okhranenie Tadzhikistana, 1960. No. 2 ("The

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