A colossus of Perm endocrinology: dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the birth of professor I.V. Tereshchenko

Irina Vladimirovna Tereshchenko is a Doctor of Medical Sciences, an Honoured Professor of Academician E.A. Vagner Perm State Medical University, Correspondent Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Science, founder of Perm School of Endocrinology. More than 60 years of her life, she devoted to medicine including 47 of them – to Perm Medical University. Irina Vladimirovna is a remarkable person, doctor, scientist, researcher and a talented teacher, founder of Perm School of Endocrinology.

Having graduated from school with a silver medal, she entered the Medical Faculty of Nizhny Novgorod Medical Institute. Since that time, medicine became her fate. After graduating from medical institute, Irina Vladimirovna worked as a therapeutist at the hospitals and polyclinics of the city of Gorky and in 1960 began to work in the Unit of Endocrinology of Gorky Regional Hospital. In 1968 Irina Vladimirovna defended her candidate thesis, and in 1987 – doctoral thesis. Both theses concerned the issue of pubertal dispituitarism. The etiology, pathogenesis, clinical picture, treatment and prevention of this disease were studied in details and the developed method of bitemporal inductothermy is very effictive. In 1970, Irina Vladimirovna came to Perm and began to work as an Assistant and since 1974 – an Associate Professor at the Department of Hospital Therapy of Perm Medical Institute. From 1976 to 1988, she worked at the Department of Hospital Therapy № 2 and then she headed the Department of Therapy of Medicoprophylactic Faculty. Afterwards, Irina Vladimirovna worked at the Department of Endocrinology and Clinical Pharmacology of Perm Medical Academy.

Irina Vladimirovna is the author of 4 monographs and more than 550 papers. Professor Tereshchenko is a Correspondent Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Science. All her scientific works greatly contribute to theoretical and practical endocrinology.