Tatiana Borisovna Dmitrieva

Tatiana Borissowna Dmitrijewa ( Russian Татьяна Борисовна Дмитриева ; born December 21, 1951 in Ivanovo , Soviet Union ; † March 1, 2010 in Moscow ) was a Russian medical doctor , psychiatrist and politician .

biography

The daughter of a couple of doctors studied medicine at the Ivanovo State Medical Academy after attending school , from which she graduated in 1975. After completing further training, she was licensed as a psychiatrist . She then completed further training at the State Medical Academy in Ivanovo as well as in clinics and at the State Scientific Center for Social Psychiatry and Forensic Psychiatry in Moscow . At the same time, she completed her doctorate with a dissertation on psychopathy .

In 1976 she began her professional activity as an employee at the State Science Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry, of which she finally became director in 1990. In this capacity, she has been head of the Department of Social and Forensic Psychiatry at the Moscow Medical Academy since 1992 and, since 1995, Deputy Chairwoman of the Psychiatric Society.

On April 22, 1996, she was appointed Minister of Health in the government of Prime Minister Viktor Stepanowitsch Tschernomyrdin and held this post until shortly before the end of Chernomyrdin's term of office on March 6, 1998. At the same time, she was also chairwoman of the Health Commission between 1996 and 2000 Security Council of the Russian President .

In 1999 she was elected as a member of the Duma . Most recently, she was also chairwoman of the psychiatry section at the Academic Council of the Ministry of Health and chairwoman of the dissertation council of the Scientific Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry.

Dmitrijewa, who wrote more than 300 specialist articles during her professional career, first became a corresponding member in 1997 and then in 1999 a member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (Российская академия медицинских наук) and was also awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland .

Web links

• Дмитриева Татьяна Борисовна (obituary in Russian)