Abstract

January 1, 2024 marks the 70th anniversary of the birth of Professor Oleksandr Vasylovych Ataman, Doctor of Medical Sciences, winner of the O.O. Bogomolets Prize, outstanding educator and scientist. The life and scientific career of Oleksandr Vasylovych was full of interesting events and important achievements. Professor Ataman O.V. was born in Lutsk, Volyn Oblast. In 1971, he graduated with a gold medal from Lutsk Secondary School No. 10 and entered the medical faculty of the In 1971, he graduated with a gold medal from Lutsk Secondary School No. 10 and entered the medical faculty of the Kyiv Medical Institute named after Academician O.O. Bogomolets (now the National Medical University named after Oleksandr Bogomolets). After graduating with honors from the institute in 1977, he became a postgraduate student at the Department of Pathological Physiology and, under the guidance of Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences M.N. Zayka, defended his candidate's dissertation in 1980 on the topic "Experimental data on the energy supply of arteries and veins with impaired innervation." From 1979 to 1991, he worked as an assistant, supply of arteries and veins with impaired innervation." From 1979 to 1991, he worked as an assistant, and from 1991 to 1993 as a professor at the Department of Pathological Physiology of the same institute. In 1991, he defended his doctoral dissertation on "Energy supply to arteries and veins in connection with their different resistance to damaging factors (experimental study)" (scientific advisors M.N. Zaiko and Yu.V. Bits). In 1993, he accepted an invitation to organize and head the Department of Normal and Pathological Physiology at the newly established Medical Faculty of the Sumy Institute of Physics and Technology (now Sumy State University) and for almost 30 years he was the head of this department. In 1993, he accepted an invitation to organize and head the Department of Normal and Pathological Physiology at the newly established Medical Faculty of the Sumy Institute of Physics and Technology (now Sumy State University). In 1993, he accepted an invitation to organize and head the Department of normal and pathological physiology at the newly established medical faculty of the Sumy Institute of Physics and Technology (now Sumy State University) and for almost 30 years was its permanent head (now called the Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology with a course Medical Biology).