“On December 5, the light of a remarkable life went out forever. We lost our colleague and friend Prof. Dimitar Djerov.
For the world, for the academic community, he was one of the doyens in Bulgarian orthopedics and traumatology, one of those who years ago contributed to the establishment of the modern image of the Medical University of Sofia.
For those of us who had the privilege of knowing him, in addition to exceptional talent in his field, he was also a deeply moral, dignified person who took a special place in our hearts.
I have heard the maxim that a person does not leave forever when there is someone to remember and love him. Thus, not only in the history of Bulgarian medicine and the oldest medical school in our country, but also as part of our lives, the memory of Prof. Djerov will remain, wrote the Minister of Health Prof. Kostadin Angelov on the occasion of his death.
Photo: Medical University – Sofia
Who was Prof. Dimitar Djerov?
The prominent Bulgarian surgeon, orthopedist, national consultant in orthopedics and traumatology, was born on May 16, 1934 in Sofia, in the family of the great Bulgarian lawyer Asen Dzherov.
He received his higher medical education at the Higher Medical Institute – Sofia from 1951 to 1958. His academic career began in 1959, after winning a competition for an assistant in the Department of Anatomy and Histology at the Higher Medical Institute – Sofia. Later she became a part-time lecturer at the Medical College for Nurses, Rehabilitators and Midwives in Sofia.
From 1974 to 1980 he was a research associate in the laboratory of biomechanics at the Scientific Institute of Orthopedics and Traumatology and the Second Orthopedic Clinic of the Medical Academy.
From 1980 to 1987 he was the head of the clinic of orthopedics and traumatology at the Institute for the Treatment of Foreign Citizens in Sofia. In 1987 he was appointed head of the General Orthopedics and Endoprosthesis Clinic at the University Hospital of Orthopedics and Traumatology in Sofia and worked as such until 2008.
From 1989 to 1991 he was director of the Scientific Institute of Orthopedics and Traumatology at the Medical Academy and a member of the AC. Since 1991 he has been the head of the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology at the Medical Faculty in Sofia, which he headed until 2000.
In 1991 he was elected a member and chairman of the Academic Council of the Medical University – Sofia. He has served two terms (8 years) as chairman of the AC. He was given the difficult task of reforming the old Medical Academy and turning it into a modern Medical University.
Both the teaching and research work of Prof. Dzherov are determined by his three specialties: Surgery (1965), Anatomy and Histology (1973) and Orthopedics and Traumatology (1978). His scientific output covers at least three areas of medical knowledge: anthropology, experimental morphology, orthopedics and traumatology.
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