P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Olimov, Ismoiljon

Tajik physician Ismoiljon Yusufovich Olimov was born in Lenina-

bad on November 18, 1936.

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Prominent Tajik Figures of the Twentieth Century

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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Olimov graduated from Tajikistan Medical Institute in 1960. In 1960

and 1961, he was a doctor of neuropathology at the Khojaobgarm re-

sort. In the following year, he was an intern at the Clinical Division of

the Department of Neurological Diseases of the Tajikistan State Insti-

tute of Medicine. From 1962 to 1965, he was a post-graduate student at

the Department of Neurology of the State Institute of Medicine of

Moscow. From 1965 to 1970, he was the Director of Neuropathology of

the clinical division of Hospital No. 1 of Dushanbe. He received his

doctorate in medicine in 1976 and became a professor in 1980.

Olimov's contributions include Patologia obmena aminokislot pri

sudorozhnom sindrome u detei rannego vozrasta (The Pathology of the

Exchange of Amino Acid in Small Children During Convulsions, 1972).

Olimov was recognized as a Distinguished Contributor to Health

Services in Tajikistan in 1979.