Fozil Amirov

Fozil Amirov (1914 to 1979) was an Uzbek Soviet surgeon and expert in topographical anatomy, a Doctor of Medical Sciences from 1960 and professor from 1961. Born in Bukhara, he graduated from the Tashkent Medical Institute in 1938, served as a lead surgeon in an evacuation hospital in 1943 and as the army's leading surgeon in the liberation of Hungary and Romania, and received several military decorations. He took his candidate degree in 1949 with a dissertation on the pathogenesis of open pneumothorax and the mechanism of vagotomy, and his doctorate in 1959 with a dissertation on plastic repair of tracheal and bronchial defects in experiment. He was vice-rector for research at Tashkent Medical Academy from 1959 to 1967 and head of its Department of Operative Surgery with Topographical Anatomy from 1966 to 1979, and in 1974 he received the State Prize of the USSR for reconstructive operations on the trachea and bronchi.