Background
MYASNIKOV, Aleksandr was born on September 18, 1899 in Krasnyy Kholm, Tver’ Province.
MYASNIKOV, Aleksandr was born on September 18, 1899 in Krasnyy Kholm, Tver’ Province.
1922 graduated Medical Faculty, Moscow University.
1922-1925 clinical inlcm, 1925-1932 assistant professor, Chair of Faculty Therapy, Petrograd (Leningrad) University. 1932-1938 professor, Chair of Internal Diseases, Novosibirsk Med Institute and Novosibirsk Institute of Postgraduate Med Training. From 1938 head, Chair of Faculty Therapy, 3rd Leningrad Med Institute and professor, Naval Faculty, 1st Leningrad Med Institute.
1940-1948 head, Chair of Faculty Therapy, Leningrad Naval Med Academy. 1942-1946 also chief therapist, Soviet Navy. 1946-1947 correspondent member, USSR Academy of Med Sciences.
1948-1965 head, A. A. Ostroumov Chair of Faculty Therapy, 1st Moscow Med Institute and director, Institute of Therapy, USSR Academy of Sciences, which now bears his name. Also chairman, Learned Council, Presidium member and acad secretary, Clinical Med Section, USSR Academy of Med Sciences. 1953 attendant physician to Stalin.
For many years chairman. Competition Awards Commission, USSR Academy of Sciences. Exec cd, journal “Voprosy palologii serdechnososudistoy sistemy".
Co-ed, internal diseases section, “Bol’shaya meditsinskaya entsiklo- pediya” (Large Medical Encyclopedia) (2nd ed): attended various international therapists’ congresses — 1954 in Stockholm, 1956 in Madrid, 1958 in Philadelphia and Brussels, and 1959 in London. From 1956 chairman, All-Russian Social of Therapists. 1960 read paper at All-Russian Therapists’ Conference, Moscow.
From 1961 member, J. E. Ригкупё Med Social, Czechoslovakia. 1962 attended 4th International Congress of Cardiologists, Mexico. 1963 attended 6th International Congress of Nutrition.
England; also attended five congresses of East Bloc health ministry in Moscow, 3rd European Congress of Cardiologists in Rome and an international symposium on coronary heart diseases. Comt member, Lnt Social of Internal Med. Member, various for cardiological soc.
Did research on the pathology of the liver, hypertonia and arteriosclerosis. Devised new theory of epithelial and mesenchymal hepatitis. Developed new methods of diagnosing and a progressive classification of arteriosclerosis.
Together with Professor G. F. Lang, developed neurogenic theory of hypertonia. Wrote over 140 works.
Member, USSR Academy of Med Sciences from 1948. Correspondent member, Rumanian Academy of Sciences.