Professor Susanna A. Georgieva - the founder of Saratov school of haemostasiologists

The study follows the career of the prominent physiologist, educationist, and health care manager Susanna A. Georgieva, who headed the Hominal Physiology Department in Saratov Medical Institute in 1959-1982. Her active scientific efforts ensured Saratov turning into one of the USSR centers of blood clotting system researching along with Moscow, Leningrad, Kazan, Chita, Barnaul, Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), Lvov, Minsk, Frounze. Susanna A. Georgieva was a respected coagulology scientist; her achievements made her the leader of the Soviet coagulologists and brought them to Saratov to participate in the All-Russian and other large conferences. She was the founder of Saratov school of hemostasis scientists. Professor S.A. Georgieva's school made its contribution into elaboration of the following research areas: neurohumoral regulation of clotting and fibrinolysis systems, the exposure of medications to coagulatory and lytic properties of blood, clinical hemostasiology. 10 Doctors of Medical Sciences and 30 Candidates of Medical Sciences were S.A. Georgieva's school disciples.