History

The Department of Phthisiopulmonology was established in 1961 as Tuberculosis Course at the Department of Introduction to Internal Medicine. Since 1961 the name for the Department has changed several times:

• 1961 – Tuberculosis Course of the Department of Faculty Therapy
• 1969 – Phthisiatrics Course
• 1988 – Phthisiatrics Course of the Department of Infectious Diseases
• 1990 – Department of Phthisiatrics
• 2002 – Department of Phthisiatrics with Occupational Pathology Course
• 2011 – Department of Phthisiopulmonology

The Heads of the Department:

• from 1961 to 2002 – I. S. Gelberg
• from 2002 to March, 2013 – S. B. Volf
• from March, 2013 to date – E. N. Alexo

The former academic staff: S. L. Romanyuk, M. M. Zharovina, F. K. Tsishkevich, N. I. Alexo, V. S. Avlasenko, N. I. Vrublevskaya, D. V. Shevchuk, L. N. Zenkov, E. V. Chalaya, N. V. Naumova.

The first Building of the Department was in 3 Sverdlova Street. Now the Department is located:

• Health Care Institution “Grodno Region Clinical Center of Phthisiatrics”, Grodno, 55 BLK;
• City Health Care Institution “City Polyclinic No.1”, Grodno, 13 Lermontova St;
•  Health Care Institution “Grodno Hospital No. 3”, Grodno, 59 BLK;
• Health Care Institution “Grodno Region Hospital” Block No. 6, Grodno, 52 BLK.