The Department of Epidemiology was established in April 1978. Until that time, epidemiology was taught in the epidemiology course, which was part of the Department of Infectious Diseases. The course was established in 1956 and was headed by Ph.D. N.B. Egorova until 1958, and since 1958 by Assoc. Prof. P.M. Lerner.
In 1974, by order of the Minister of Health of the Uzbek SSR, the epidemiology course was separated from the Department of Infectious Diseases into an independent department of the institute, headed by Dr. Med. Sciences, Prof. P. M. Lerner.
Since November 1967, such assistants as D.P. Pak, Assoc. Prof. V. Ya. Lemelev, assistants R.F. Jalalova, L.V. Katkova, U.Z. Rakhmatulin, E.L. Kalandarov.
P.M Lerner
The first head of the Department of Epidemiology was Prof. P.M. Lerner, graduated from the Samarqand State Medical University in 1944. In 1944-1946 he worked as a district epidemiologist, in 1946-1950 as the chief physician of the Samarkand city SES and as a part-time assistant at the Department of Hygiene of Medical Sciences. In 1957, P.M. Lerner received the scientific degree of candidate of medical sciences, and in 1971 he became a doctor of medical sciences, and in 1972 he became a professor.
In June 1970, P.M. Lerner was elected dean of the pediatrics faculty of the Samarqand State Medical University, and in August 1976 he was appointed vice-rector for scientific affairs.
Research work of an epidemiological nature began in 1959 under the leadership of P.M. Lerner, together with practitioners of the city and regional SES (N. Ya. Prikhozhan, A. M. Abarbanel, T. N. Lyubutskaya). The epidemiology of influenza, brucellosis, typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever was studied, anti-epidemic measures were developed to combat diphtheria and whooping cough, the epidemiology of some intestinal infections was studied in detail, and the scientific basis for the eradication of hymenolepiasis was developed. (VR Lemelev, 1970).
In 1972, the experience of studying and evaluating various methods of organizing measures to combat hymenolepiasis in villages was summarized by F.. Khamrokulov and the experience of planning and organizing measures to combat hymenolepiasis in the mountains. Samarkand - A.Sh. Bedzhanyants (1973). The study of the morphology and biology of hymenolepiasis of white mice and Tribolium konsruzim beetles was carried out by M.A. Zubitskaya (1975).
Yarmuxammedova M.Q
In 2012-2014. Yarmukhammedova Makhbuba Kudratovna was appointed head of the Department of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Course of SamMI. She was recruited by SamMI to the Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases in 1985 on a competitive basis. In June 1993, she defended her candidate's thesis:
“Iridological signs of viral hepatitis A and B”. Total work experience is 39 years, scientific and pedagogical work experience at the Samarkand State Medical Institute is 35 years. From 2000 to 2012, she worked as an associate professor at the Department of Infectious Diseases, with a course in epidemiology. Today, she is the author of more than 150 scientific works, including 45 textbooks. With the help of new pedagogical technologies, Associate Professor Yarmukhamedova M.K. gives lectures to fifth and sixth year students of the faculties of pediatrics and medicine based on modern innovative technologies in the credit-modular teaching system introduced at the institute. Associate Professor Yarmukhamedova M.K. Provides consulting services to patients of the Samarkand Regional Infectious Diseases Hospital. In 2013, the Department of Dermatovenerology was added to the department. The name of the department was changed to “Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Dermatovenerology”.
Yarmukhammedova N.A.
Since 2013, the head of the department has been Assoc. Prof. Yarmukhammedova N.A. During this period, more than 200 scientific works have been published, 43 of which were published in foreign journals. Assoc. Prof. Yarmukhammedova N.A. participated in international symposia and conferences held in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Astana, Istanbul, Bukovina.
In 2020, the Department of “Epidemiology” within the department was separated and became a separate department.
Umrzoqov Zokir Bakhriddinovich
Zokir Bahriddinovich Umirzakov was appointed head of the Department of Epidemiology for the period from 2020 to 2025. Umrzakov Z.B. graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the Samarkand State Medical Institute in 1996 and from 1996 to 2004 worked as a medical epidemiologist at the Samarkand Regional State Medical University. From 2004 to 2019, he worked as a medical epidemiologist in the organizational and methodological department of the regional AIDS Center, and since November 2019, he has been the head physician of this center. Since September 2020, he has been working as the head of the Department of Epidemiology at the Samarkand State Medical University. At the same time, he conducted research on his doctoral dissertation. He has published 10 scientific articles on his scientific work and written 1 monograph “Clinical and immunological characteristics of Covid-19 and organizational principles of providing medical care”.
Makhmudova Lola Bakhronovna
Since September 2025, the current head of the Department of Epidemiology is Makhmudola Lola Bakhranovna. Makhmudola Lola Bakhranovna was appointed chief physician of the L.M. Isayev Scientific Research Institute of Parasitology under Samarkand State Medical University in 2001. Since 2023, she has been the director of the L.M. Isayev Scientific Research Institute of Parasitology under Samarkand State Medical University. In 2024, she defended her PhD thesis on the topic of organizing a system for combating parasitic diseases in children.
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