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Prominent Tajik Figures of the Twentieth Century

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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See Qalandarova, Malika.

Qamardinov, Khushqadam

Tajik infectionist Khushqadam Qurbonovich Qamardinov was born

into a farming family in the district of Ishkashim in Badakhshan on May

26, 1933.

Qamardinov graduated from the Tajikistan State Medical Institute in

1958. He was the Chief Medical Doctor of the Ishkashim district from

1958 to 1960. Between 1964 and 1978, he was a Lecturer there. In

1980, he became an Assistant Professor, and later Director, of the Hos-

pital dealing with infectious diseases at the Republic level. He received

his doctorate in medicine in 1985, and became a professor in 1986.

Qamardinov's research deals with parasitology and the spread of dis-

eases of the liver. His contributions include Klinika, diagnostika, leche-

nie i profilaktika fastsiolioza u detei (Care, Diagnosis, and Treatment of

Children's Fastsiolioz [a type of liver fluke], Dushanbe, 1977) and

Fastsiolioz cheloveka (Adult Fastsiolioz, Moscow, 1985).

Qamardinov became a Distinguished Scientific Contributor to

Health in the Soviet Union in 1968. He is a recipient of the Veteran of

Labor Award.