Background
Dmitry Chebotarev was born on September 17, 1908 in Kiev, Ukraine.
Dmitry Chebotarev was born on September 17, 1908 in Kiev, Ukraine.
Dmitry Fyodorovich studied at the 2nd gymnasium in Kiev. He entered the Kiev Medical Institute. In 1937 Chebotarev entered the graduate school of the therapeutical department of the Kiev Institute for Advanced Doctors' Training, where he passed Doctor of Philosophy defense on idiopathic expansions of esophagus. In 1944, Dmitry Fyodorovich was invited to the doctorate of the Institute of Clinical Medicine, which was being restored by Academician N. D. Strazhesko. However, he was able to use the consent to the training at the doctorate only a year later, since he was forced to work for some time as the chief physician of the sanatorium "Ukraine" after demobilization.
In 1953, Dmitry Fyodorovich passed doctoral thesis defense on the topic "Hypertensive syndrome of pregnant women." In 1954 he was awarded the title of professor.
fter the graduation from the Gymnasium DDmitry Fyodorovich worked for some time as a paramedic at the ambulance station. After the graduation from the Institute he was recommended for scientific work and sent to Chernigov, to the Institute of Physiotherapy named after V.V. Vorovsky. From 1940 until the beginning of the war Dmitry Fyodorovich worked as a chief physician, deputy director of the medical part of the governmental sanatorium "Ukraine" of the Ukrainian SSR Ministry of Health (Gagra, Abkhazia) medical administration. During this period he mainly dealt with problems of internal diseases, dietology. In 1938 at the initiative of academicians A.A. Bogomolets and N.D. Strazhesko the first scientific conference on the problems of aging was held in Kiev and Chebotarev participated there. During the Great Patriotic War Dmitry Fyodorovich worked as the head of the X-ray department of the evacuation hospital №1420 in Tbilisi.
From 1952 to 1955 Dmitry Fyodorovich Chebotarev worked as a deputy director for science, head of the functional pathology department of the Ukrainian Institute of Clinical Medicine of the Ukrainian SSR Ministry of Health. From 1955 to 1961 Dmitry Fyodorovich was in charge of the therapeutical department of the Institute for Advanced Doctors Training of the Ukrainian SSR Ministry of Health (Kiev). Working at this department, lecturing on the main sections of internal diseases significantly expanded his outlook as an internist, and the duties of the chief therapist, 1953-1958 and then the chairman of the academic council of the Ukrainian Ministry of Health, 1958-1965 gave access to the information about medical achievements not only within the USSR, but as well abroad.
In February 1961, by the decree of the presidium of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, Dmitry Fyodorovich became an appointed director of the Gerontological Institute of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences. The main directions of his scientific activity in the field of clinical gerontology: the study of the clinical and physiological mechanisms of aging, physiology and pathology of internal organs while aging, the influence of medicaments and other methods of treatment, the formation and organization of geriatric aid for population, and doctors' upgrading in the sphere of geriatrics.
Dmitry Fyodorovich Chebotarev was elected thrice as the people's deputy of the Kiev City Council from the Podolsky district (1967, 1969, 1971).
In 1961 Dmitry Fyodorovich was elected as a corresponding member, in 1965 - a full member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (since 1992 - RAMS). He is an honorable member of the gerontologists’ society in Germany, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, Bulgaria and other countries. Also he was a member of the "Znanie" society (1965-1985 - a chairman of the board) and USSR Society of Gerontologists and Geriatrics (chairman, 1963-1987).