The path to science

Abstract

Alexander Nickolaevich Zubritsky is a pathologist of the highest category, a member of the European Society of Pathology, Professor. He was born on March 14, 1949 in Severo-Kurilsk, Sakhalin Region in the family of a military therapist. At age 15, worked as a hospital attendant in a pathology department of a hospital in Sverdlovsk and studied at night school for working youth. In 1974, he graduated the curative and preventive faculty of the Sverdlovsk Medical Institute. In 1974–1975, was an internship in pathological anatomy at the basis of Sverdlovsk Regional Clinical Hospital. In 1977, enrolled in correspondence postgraduate study at the Institute of Human Morphology in Moscow on a specialty “pathological anatomy” under the direction of the Hero of Socialist Labor, Lenin Prize laureate, Academician of AMS USSR Prof. A. I. Strukov. In 1990, he defended his thesis “Quantitative analysis of pathomorphological changes in the right ventricle of the heart in group of patients with chronic nonspecific pulmonary diseases” in the I. M. Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy. In 1990, he became a finalist of the Marvin I. Dunn Award for the best presentation in Cardiology at the meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians in Toronto, etc. Author of the 4 rationalization proposals and more 300 published works as sole author, including 27 books (of which 16 are in paper formats, 11 — in electronic versions), manuals and reference books.